by Ben Goldacre
restricted by GMC: http://webcache.gmc-uk.org/minutesfiles/2063.html
fallen from $20: http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/dynamic_charting.aspx?selected=NMTI&symbol=NMTI
‘We Are More Possible Than You Can Powerfully Imagine’
Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2009/jul/29/simon-singh-science-chiropractic-litigation
intending to do good: http://ebn.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/10/1/4
British Medical Journal: http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=
web&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bmj.com%2F&ei=VURwSp3tMMahjAfo282hBQ&usg=AFQjCNFrgA5ACj4Qwf7dYRivBOSsYx2Hrg&sig2=2-JerEf-4W8otKp9mO4J7A
The Times: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/article6426195.ece
Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1196696/Back-cures-brave-scientist-epic-court-battle-How-Britains-libel-laws-threatening-free-speech.html
Daily Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/5442522/Stephen-Fry-and-Ricky-Gervais-defend-science-writer-sued-for-libel.html
Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/jeremy-laurance-the-libel-laws-that-threaten-to-stifle-scientific-debate-1744810.html
Nature: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v459/n7248/full/459751a.html
Economist: http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13809291
Times Higher Education: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=406872&c=1
Sunday Times: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/article6493564.ece
Channel 4: http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/uk/ouch+dr+singh+hits+back/3194057
Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124406714025182743.html
Observer: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/may/31/simon-singh-science
British Medical Journal: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/339/jul08_4/b2783
international petition: http://www.senseaboutscience.org.uk/index.php/site/project/333
Professor David Colquhorn: http://www.dcscience.net/?p=1775
BCA selectively quoting: http://layscience.net/node/598
Every stone was turned: http://www.layscience.net/node/598
Quackometer: http://www.quackometer.net/
APGaylard: http://apgaylard.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/plethora-or-paucity-the-bca-and-bedwetting/
Gimplyblog: http://gimpyblog.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/the-bca-have-no-evidence-that-chiropractic-can-help-with-ear-infections/
EvidenceMatters: http://evidencematters.org/2009/06/18/british-chiropractic-association-and-the-plethora-of-evidence-for-paediatric-asthma/
Dr Petra Boynton: http://www.drpetra.co.uk/blog/?p=857
Ministry of Truth: http://www.ministryoftruth.me.uk/2009/06/18/examining-the-bcas-plethora-of-evidence/
Holfordwatch: http://holfordwatch.info/2009/06/18/british-chiropractic-association-bca-demonstrate-what-evidence-based-medicine-isnt/
Jack of Kent: http://jackofkent.blogspot.com/2009/06/bcas-worst-day-yet.html
Advertising Standards Authority: http://www.zenosblog.com/2009/07/another-asa-win-against-quackery.html
breached the guidelines: http://www.asa.org.uk/asa/adjudications/Public/TF_ADJ_46281.htm
individual chiropractors’ claims: http://jdc325.wordpress.com/2009/05/14/bassett-chiropractic/
blogger Simon Perry: http://adventuresinnonsense.blogspot.com/2009/06/500-chiropractors-reported-to-trading.html
exactly the same thing: http://www.zenosblog.com/2009/06/omnibus-complaint-to-general.html
on Quackometer: http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2009/06/chiropractors-told-to-take-down-their.html
Science Is About Embracing Your Knockers
Science is About: http://www.badscience.net/2010/11/science-is-about-embracing-your-knockers/
Maria Hatzistenfanis: http://www.rodial.co.uk/about_maria/marias_profile.aspx
This is her crime: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/beauty/article-1316454/Rodial-Boob-Job-gel-Cream-increases-bust-size-goes-sale-125.html
do in a checklist: http://www.badscience.net/2009/09/how-to-read-articles-about-health-by-dr-alicia-white/
The Return of Dr McKeith
The Return: http://www.badscience.net/2010/07/and-then-i-was-incompetently-libelled-by-a-litigious-millionaire/
‘Gillian McKeith’: http://www.badscience.net/2007/02/ms-gillian-mckeith-banned-from-calling-herself-a-doctor/
linked to from: http://gillianmckeith.info/
still linked from: http://gillianmckeith.tv/
QUACKS
The Noble and Ancient Tradition of Moron-Baiting
The Noble and Ancient: http://www.badscience.net/2010/05/the-noble-and-ancient-tradition-of-moron-baiting/
Martin Gardner died: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/may/27/martin-gardner-obituary
Aids denialism: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/13/business/media/13harpers.html
How Do You Regulate Wu?
How Do You: http://www.badscience.net/2010/02/how-do-you-regulate-wu/
Ying Wu: http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE61G3N420100217
babies with colic: http://adventuresinnonsense.blogspot.com/2009/11/cnhc-wishes-to-place-on-formal-record_27.html
shameful lengths over many: http://www.dcscience.net/?p=2351
appeals at the highest level: http://www.dcscience.net/?p=2485
Bachelor of Science degree: http://www.dcscience.net/Pittilo-consultation-What-is-taught.pdf
Blame Everyone But Yourselves
Blame Everyone: http://www.badscience.net/2008/07/blame-everyone-but-yourselves/
In the Daily Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2445080/Barbara-Nash-case-highlights-lack-of-regulation-of-nutritionists.html
advertised on yell.com: http://www.yell.com/quickclicks/SP/N/Nutritionists_and_Dieticians/berkshire/1
carries such privileges: http://www.bant.org.uk/bant/jsp/benefitsOfJoining.faces
carries testimonials: http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache: f4ezlNZzh4cJ:www.barbaranash.co.uk/nutritionaltestimonials.html+barbara+nash&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=uk&client=firefox-a
MAGIC BOXES
ADE 651: WTF?
ADE 651: http://www.badscience.net/2009/11/wtf/
New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/world/middleeast/04sensors.html?_r=4&hp
The ADE 651: http://www.ade651.com/ade651in.html
Sandia Labs: http://www.sandia.gov/mission/homeland/factsheets/2008/NEXESS_Factsheet_Mar08_2.pdf
tested various similar devices: http://www.justnet.org/Lists/JUSTNET%Resources/Attachments/440/moleeval_apr02.pdf
invited the manufacturers: http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/231-a-direct-specific-challenge-from-james-randi-and-the-jref.html
After Madeleine, Why Not Bin Laden?
After Madeleine: http://www.badscience.net/2007/10/after-madeleine-why-not-bin-laden/
‘matter orientation system machine’: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22matter+orientation+sy stem+machine%22
said the Observer: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2185358,00.html
million-dollar prize: http://www.randi.org/research/index.html
South African documentary: http://www.carteblanche.co.za/Display/Display.asp?Id=3233
lost a child: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2007/10/08/don-t-trust-the-bodyfinder-89520-19913118/
Who’s Holding the Smoking Gun on Bioresonance?
Who’s Holding: http://www.badscience.net/2005/11/whos-holding-a-smoking-gun-to-bioresonance/
video is online: http://www.badscience.net/files/bioresonance.wmv
AIDS
House of Numbers
House of Numbers: http://www.badscience.net/2009/09/house-of-numbers/
Guardian Science podcast http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/audio/2009/sep/21/science-weekly-podcast-darwin-dawkins
since recanted: http://blog.newhumanist.org.uk/2009/09/was-i-conned-by-aids-denialists.html
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Aids Denialism at the Spectator
Aids Denialism: http://www.badscience.net/2009/10/aids-denialism-at-the-spectator/
from three weeks ago: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentis free/2009/sep/26/ben-goldacre-bad-science-aids
senior programmer appeared: http://gimpyblog.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/film-festival-endorse-aids-denialism/
Fraser Nelson: http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/5461313/questioning-the-aids-consensus.thtml
a Spectator event: http://www.spectator.co.uk/shop/events/5402473/spectator-debate-a-world-without-aids.thtml
in two separate studies: http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/107/427/157 and http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18931626
has also, oddly, flirted: http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/5269468/the-flu-jab-choice-the-department-of-health-might-not-tell-you-about.thtml
Charles Geshekter: http://www.virusmyth.com/aids/index/cgeshekter.htm
‘The Plague That Isn’t’: http://www.virusmyth.com/aids/index/cgeshekter.htm
emeritus professor: http://www1.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/people/b.griffin/
is quoted by virusmyth: http://www.virusmyth.com/aids/index/bgriffin.htm
overall beneficial treatment: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/324/7340/757
ELECTROSENSITIVITY
Wi-Fi Wants to Kill Your Children … But Alasdair Philips of Powerwatch Sells the Cure!
Wi-Fi Wants: http://www.badscience.net/2007/05/so-simple-a-child-could-spot-it/
Panorama programme: http://www.badscience.net/?p=414
Alasdair Philips: http://www.badscience.net/?p=241
Powerwatch: http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/
sell one to you: http://www.emfields.org/equipment/overview.asp
you can buy: http://www.emfields.org/screening/overview.asp
mesh beekeeper hat: http://www.emfields.org/screening/headnet.asp
produced ‘radiation’ scares: http://www.wellingtongrey.net/miscel lanea/archive/2007-05-27--the-truth-about-wireless-devices.html
Why Don’t Journalists Mention the Data
Why Don’t Journalists: http://www.badscience.net/2007/06/bmj-column-why-dont-journalists-mention-the-data/
‘provocation studies’ published: http://www.badscience.net/?p=239
POST-MODERNISM
Archie Cochrane: ‘Fascist’
Archie Cochrane: http://www.badscience.net/2006/08/archie-cochrane-fascist/
in your summer holidays: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/schoolsand divisions/divisions/insrv/libraryservices/scolar/archives/cochrane/biography.html
IRRATIONALITY
The Golden Arse-Beam Method
The Golden Arse-Beam: http://www.badscience.net/2011/07/the-golden-arse-beam-method/
One example was published: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08870441003703218
subgroup analyses: http://www.badscience.net/2011/07/2009/04/a-frankly-thin-contrivance-for-writing-on-the-fascinating-issue-of-subgroup-analysis/
An earlier study: http://psp.sagepub.com/content/35/1/60
homeopathy: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/homeopathy
Illusions of Control
Illusions of Control: http://www.badscience.net/2010/12/illusions-of-control/
British Journal of Psychology: http://bpsoc.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpsoc/bjp/pre-prints/bjp898
whole raft of research: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusion_of_control
series of studies: https://gsbapps.stanford.edu/researchpapers/library/RP2009.pdf
connected to nothing: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/04/21/080421fa_fact_paumgarten?currentPage=all
Empathy’s Failures
Empathy’s Failures: http://www.badscience.net/2010/10/empathys-failures/
Social Psychology and Personality Science: http://spp.sagepub.com/content/early/2010/08/24/1948550610382308.full.pdf+html
That phrasing comes: https://twitter.com/PinkZapCat/status/488771332541546496
Blind Prejudice
Blind Prejudice: http://www.badscience.net/2010/09/blind-prejudice/
Noola Griffiths: http://www.tees.ac.uk/sections/research/social_futures/members.cfm?griffiths=true
what woman wear: http://pom.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/38/2/159
Goldin and Rouse: http://www.faculty.diversity.ucla.edu/search/searchtoolkit/docs/articles/Orchestrating_Impartiality.pdf
Yeah, Well, You Can Prove Anything with Science
Yeah http://www.badscience.net/2010/07/yeah-well-you-can-prove-anything-with-science/
Lord in 1979: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~maccoun/ar_bias.html
Journal of Applied Social Psychology: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/123328312/abstract
Superstition
Superstition: http://www.badscience.net/2010/06/1693/
Psychological Science: http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2010/05/27/0956797610 372631.full
Malcolm Gladwell: http://amzn.to/9QrgTe
Vaughn Bell: http://twitter.com/vaughanbell
Ed Yong: http://twitter.com/edyong209
Evidence-Based Smear Campaigns
Evidence-Based: http://www.badscience.net/2010/05/evidence-based-smear-campaigns/
A new experiment: http://www.springerlink.com/content/064786861r21m257/fulltext.html
Why Cigarette Packs Matter
Why Cigarette Packs: http://www.badscience.net/2011/03/why-cigarette-packs-matter/
government committed itself: http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_124917
put out a statement: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2011/mar/09/houseofcommons-pmqs
lower-tar brands compensate: http://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/tcrb/monographs/13/m13_3.pdf
from a million people: http://www.bmj.com/content/328/7431/72.abstract
less likely to give up: http://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/tcrb/monographs/13/m13_6.pdf
population-based surveys: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11799542
71 per cent in China: http://davidhammond.ca/Old%20Website/Publication%20new/2010%20China%20Lights%20TC%20%28Elton-Marshal%29.pdf
telephone digit survey: http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/10/suppl_1/i17.abstract
five hundred smokers: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12473429
267 adolescents: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/114/4/e445
Careful manipulation: http://www.springerlink.com/content/r13q87565w885u07/?p=56e7d0716ac94f00981ab7681baebb59&pi=17
deter quitters: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1492251/?tool=pubmed
perfect vehicle: http://www.springerlink.com/content/r13q87565w885u07/?p=56e7d0716ac94f00981ab7681baebb59&pi=17
in four countries: http://davidhammond.ca/Old Website/Publication new/ITC Light Mild%28Tob Control 2008%29.pdf
street-interception survey: http://davidhammond.ca/Old Website/Publication new/Cigarette Pack Design%28JPH 2009%29.pdf
tobacco companies know this: http://davidhammond.ca/Old%20Website/Publication%20new/2010%20Malrbor%20Alchemy%20TC%20%28Thrasher%20et%20al%29.pdf
Marketing New Products: http://www.pmdocs.com/getallimg.asp?if=avpidx&DOCID=2044762173/2364
‘brand imagery’ studies: http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/mdb51f00
six hundred adolescents: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1529094
All Bow Before the Mighty Power of the Nocebo Effect
All Bow Before: http://www.badscience.net/2009/11/all-bow-before-the-mighty-power-of-the-nocebo-effect/
looked into the evidence: http://www.badscience.net/2009/11/parliamentary-science-and-technology-select-committee-on-homeopathy-today/
Pain: http://www.painjournalonline.com/article/S0304-3959%2809%2900399-6/abstract
study in 2006: http://www.psychosomaticmedicine.org/cgi/content/abstract/68/3/478
paper in 2004: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15301298
paper from 1987: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
/pubmed/3621780?dopt=Abstract
systematic review: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1475-4916(03)00007-9
So Brilliantly You’ve Presented a Really Transgressive Case Through the Mainstream Media
So Brilliantly: http://www.badscience.net/2009/12/so-brillliantly-youve-presented-a-really-transgressive-case-through-the-mainstream-media/
Sun: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2743062/23-year-nightmare-of-Rom-Houben-wrongly-diagnosed-as-comatose.html
BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8375326.stm
Guardian: http://browse.guardian.co.uk/search?search=rom+houben&sitesearch-radio=guardian&go-guardian=Search
Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/lizhunt/6649381/Rom-Houben-and-the-human-spirit-that-would-not-be-denied.html
Der Spiegel: http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/0,1518,662625,00.html
Australian TV news: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/975121/belgian-coma-man-was-just-awake-for-23-years
author of the communication: http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/research/data/uploadfiles/RR77.pdf
more recent studies: http://kslinker.com/facilitated-communicaton-since-1995.pdf
National Autistic Society says: http://www.nas.org.uk/nas/jsp/polopoly.jsp?a=3285&d=1384
position paper on FC: http://www.apa.org/about/division/cpmscientific.html
encourage you to do so: qurl.com/coma
This was barely reported: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2010/02/bookwriting_man_in_coma_flunks.html
BAD JOURNALISM
Asking for It
Asking for It: http://www.badscience.net/2009/07/asking-for-it/
Women who dress provocatively: http://current.com/items/90259840_women-who-dress-provocatively-more-likely-to-be-raped-claim-scientists.htm
Promiscuous men more likely: 50 http://www2.le.ac.uk/ebulletin/news/press-releases/2000-2009/2009/06/nparticle.2009-06-23.2976340719
blame on women: http://psychcentral.com/news/2009/06/25/men-blame-rape-victims-more-than-women/6736.html
Jab ‘as Deadly as the Cancer’
Jab ‘as Deadly’: http://www.badscience.net/2009/10/jabs-as-bad-as-the-cancer/
debate at Royal Institution: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/webcast.html
‘as deadly as the cancer’: http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:ckeH3LgaZO4J:www.express.co.uk/posts/view/131817/Jab-as-deadly-as-the-cancer-
previous work includes: http://www.journalisted.com/lucy-johnston
