I Think You’ll Find It’s a Bit More Complicated Than That

The most readable overview on the poor quality of the data is this article by Cheng, Chalmers and Sheldon. Prof Sir Iain Chalmers founded the Cochrane library, for anyone who seeks to doubt his badassness: www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/335/7622/699

The Taiwan study is here (the authors attribute the increase in risk to a problem of multiple comparisons): http://www.science direct.com/science/article/pii/S0013935199940185

The York review is here: www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/fluorid.htm. You’ll see that for several years now they’ve been trying to point out that people are misrepresenting their work: http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/fluoridnew.htm

And if you want a particularly good example of someone pompously overstating the evidence, try this doozy from the Sunday Mirror: www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/columnists/opinion/2008/02/03/fluoride-the-whole-tooth-98487-20307072/

How Myths Are Made

How Myths are Made: http://www.badscience.net/2009/08/how-myths-are-made/

successfully used a court order: http://speakingofmedicine.plos.org/2009/08/05/guest-blog-from-adriane-fugh-berman-plos-medicine-and-the-new-york-times-victorious-in-court-public-will-have-access-to-ghostwriting-documents/

Such an analysis: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/339/jul20_3/b2680

Publish or Be Damned

Publish or be Damned: http://www.badscience.net/2005/08/publish-or-be-damned/

Academic Papers Are Hidden from the Public. Here’s Some Direct Action

Academic Papers are Hidden: http://www.badscience.net/2011/09/academic-papers-are-hidden-from-the-public-heres-some-direct-action/

piece on academic publishers: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/29/academic-publishers-murdoch-socialist

pay up front: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=417266&c=1

Aaron Swartz: http://blog.demandprogress.org/2011/07/federal-government-indicts-former-demand-progress-executive-director-for-downloading-too-many-journal-articles/

federal indictment document online: http://web.mit.edu/bitbucket/Swartz,Aaron Indictment.pdf

harvest academic papers from JSTOR: http://about.jstor.org/news-events/news/jstor-statement-misuse-incident-and-criminal-case

Pirate Bay: http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6554331/Papers_from_Philosophical_Transactions_of_the_Royal_Society__fro

Royal Society Papers: http://royalsociety.org/about-us/reporting/

BIOLOGISING

Neuro-Realism

Neuro-Realism: http://www.badscience.net/2010/10/neuro-realism/

When the BBC tells you: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11620971

‘normal’ sex drive http://amzn.to/doM9h8

‘hypoactive sexual desire disorder’: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypoactive_sexual_desire_disorder

tells the Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1323730/Is-women-dont-like-make-love-Scientists-discover-low-libidos-behave-differently.html

In the Metro: http://www.metro.co.uk/lifestyle/845156-women-with-low-sex-drive-have-different-brains

‘fMRI in the Public Eye’: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1524852/

The Stigma Game

The Stigma Game: http://www.badscience.net/2010/10/pride-and-prejudice/

looked for chromosomal deletions: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736%2810%2961109-9

including that in the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/sep/30/hyperactive-children-genetic-disorder-study

said Professor Anita Thapar: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/sep/30/hyperactive-children-genetic-disorder-study

Read and Harre: http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09638230123129

Read and Law: http://isp.sagepub.com/content/45/3/216.full.pdf+html

Walker and Read: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12530335

Dietrich and colleagues: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1440-1614.2004.01363.x/abstract

review of the literature to date: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1600-0447.2006.00824.x/full

‘Genetic Bases of Mental Illness’: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0166-2236%2802%2902209-9

Pink, Pink, Pink, Pink. Pink Moan

Pink Moan: http://www.badscience.net/2007/08/pink-pink-pink-pink-pink-moan/

every single newspaper in the world: http://news.google.co.uk/news?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&rls=org.

said The Times: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article2294539.ece

The study took 208: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2007.06.022

Bem Sex Role Inventory: http://www.neiu.edu/~tschuepf/bsri.html

Anyone can take this test online: http://garote.bdmonkeys.net/bsri.html

Further references:

The academic paper is here: Anya C. Hurlbert and Yazhu Ling, ‘Biological components of sex differences in color preference’, Current Biology, Volume 17, Issue 16, 21 August 2007, Pages R623–R625, dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2007.06.022

STATISTICS

Guns Don’t Kill People, Puppies Do

Guns Don’t Kill People: http://www.badscience.net/2010/02/guns-dont-kill-people-puppies-do/

3 babies on same date: http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/157444/Mum-beats-odds-of-50m-to-one-to-have-3-babies-on-same-date-

725,440 births: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=369

‘Who is Having Babies’: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/births 1209.pdf

‘Dog Shoots Man’: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/01/ap/strange/main6162474.shtml

‘Dog Shoots Man in Back’: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,291687,00.html

another in Iowa: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7068549.stm

Puppy Shoots Man: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5950304

Datamining for Terrorists Would Be Lovely If It Worked

Datamining for Terrorists: http://www.badscience.net/2009/02/data mining-would-be-lovely-if-it-worked/

This week Sir David Omand: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/feb/25/database-state-ippr-paper

described how the state: http://www.ippr.org/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=646

what statisticians call the ‘specificity’: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitivity_(tests)

Benford’s Law: Using Stats to Bust an Entire Nation for Naughtiness

Benford’s Law: http://www.badscience.net/2011/09/benfords-law-using-stats-to-bust-an-entire-nation-for-naughtiness/

something called Benford’s Law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law

61,838,154 in 2009: http://www.google.co.uk/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&met_y=sp_pop_totl&idim=country:GBR&dl=en&hl=en&q=uk+population

think about why this happens: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benfords_law

testingbenfordslaw.com: http://testingbenfordslaw.com/

Twitter users’ follower counts: http://testingbenfordslaw.com/twitter-users-by-followers-count

books in different libraries: http://testingbenfordslaw.com/total-number-of-print-materials-in-us-libraries

countries’ economic data: http://econpapers.repec.org/article/blagermec/v_3a10_3ay_3a2009_3ai_3a_3ap_3a339-351.htm

the results were published: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-0475.2011.00542.x/abstract

hat-tip to Tim Harford: http://timharford.com/2011/09/look-out-for-no-1/

macroeconomic data: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/esa95_supply_use_input_tables/data/workbooks

online repository Eurostat: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/esa95_supply_use_input_tables/introduction

run several investigations: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/product_details/publication?p_product_code=COM_2010_report_greek

repeat the analysis for yourself: http://rstudio.org/

The Certainty of Chance

The Certainty of Chance: http://www.badscience.net/2008/09/the-certainty-of-chance/

Sampling Error, the Unspoken Issue Behind Small Number Changes in the News

Sampling Error: http://www.badscience.net/2011/08/untitled-1/

“Worrying” Jobless Rise: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-14558369

‘Labour Market’ figures: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/StatBase/Product.asp?vlnk=1944

in a PDF document: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/lmsuk0811.pdf

Scientific Proof That We Live in a Warmer and More Caring Universe

Scientific Proof: http://www.badscience.net/2008/11/scientific-proof-that-we-live-in-a-warmer-and-more-caring-universe/

‘Down’s births increase in a caring Britain’: http://www.timeson line.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article5219174.ece

when diagnosed with Down’s: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1088774/More-mothers-choosing-babies-diagnosed-Downs-Syndrome.html

said the Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/downs-parents-think-again-1032193.html

said the Mirror: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2008/11/24/babies-born-with-down-s-syndrome-on-increase-115875-20919849/

Radio 4 documentary: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00fkx0m

her what plays Ruth Archer: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/archers/whos_who/actors/actor_felicity_finch.shtml

National Down Syndrome Cytogenetic Register: http://www.wolfson.qmul.ac.uk/ndscr/

took the story to pieces: http://www.wolfson.qmul.ac.uk/ndscr/

National Down Syndrome Cytogenetic Register: http://www.nhs.uk/news/2008/11November/Pages/DownssyndromeQA.aspx

Radio 4 website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/

Drink Coffee, See Dead People

Drink Coffee: http://www.badscience.net/2009/01/drink-coffee-see-dead-people/

7 cups of coffee a day: http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/79820/utter-cock-as-usual

in almost every national newspaper: http://news.google.co.uk/news?q=coffee+hallucinations+location%3Auk

exactly what the researchers did: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2008.10.032

survey is still online: http://psychology.dur.ac.uk:82/srj/caffeine2.html

‘Launay-Slade Hallucination Scale’: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Launay-Slade+Hallucination+Scale

alternative explanations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confounding_variable

the academic paper: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2008.10.032

the press release: http://www.alphagalileo.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=readrelease&releaseid=535120&ez_search=1

‘multiple comparisons’: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_comparisons

no one was there: http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/accessories/5a65/

draw a target around them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_sharpshooter_fallacy

Voices of the Ancients

Voices of the Ancients: http://www.badscience.net/2010/01/voices-of-the-ancients/

Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1240746/Prehistoric-sat-nav-set-ancestors-Britain.html

the Metro: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/807855-did-prehistoric-satnav-help-britons-find-their-way

Matt Parker: http://www.standupmaths.com/

applied the same techniques: http://bengoldacre.posterous.com/did-aliens-play-a-role-in-woolworths

BIG DATA

There’s Something Magical About Watching Patterns Emerge from Data

There’s Something Magical: http://www.badscience.net/2011/06/theres-something-magical-about-watching-patterns-emerge-from-data/

British Medical Journal: http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.d2983.full

first NHS reforms: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/nhs

Give Us the Data

A consultation is under way: http://c561635.r35.cf2.rackcdn.com/A-Consultation-on-Data-Policy-for-a-Public-Data-Corporation.pdf

foolishly restrictive: http://pdcconsult.ernestmarples.com/

everyday government data: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/government-data

forbidden to repurpose it: http://hadleybeeman.net/2011/01/26/uses-for-open-data/

TheyWorkForYou.com: http://www.theyworkforyou.com/

all our postcode information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcodes_in_the_United_Kingdom

the house-number boundaries: http://ernestmarples.com/blog/2010/01/postcode-petition-response-our-reply/

make the government: http://pdcconsult.ernestmarples.com/

Care.data Can Save Lives: But Not If We Bungle It

greatest need in the NHS http://www.theguardian.com/society/nhs

at risk by the bungled: http://www.nature.com/news/power-to-the-people-1.14505?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20140116

implementation of the care.data: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-26187980

on hold for six months: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/feb/18/nhs-delays-sharing-medical-records-care-data

by and large, the public: http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/About-us/Publications/Reports/Public-engagement/WTP053206.htm

results of clinical trials: http://www.badscience.net/category/publication-bias/

Tim Kelsey: http://www.theguardian.com/healthcare-network/2013/aug/21/tim-kelsey-nhs-big-data

Dr Foster Intelligence http://drfosterintelligence.co.uk/solutions/nhs-hospitals/

announcing boldly: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-2 6030479

identifiable patient data: http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2014/february/pseudonymised-health-data-will-not-be-able-to-be-traced-back-to-individuals-under-caredata-scheme-says-official-/

medical research database: http://www.theguardian.com/science/medical-research

keen to point out: http://www.ehi.co.uk/news/ehi/9207/re-identifying-care.data-illegal

Steve Tennison: http://ico.org.uk/news/latest_news/2013/gp-surgery-manager-prosecuted-for-illegally-accessing-patients-medical-records-02122013

Care.data Has Been Bungled

millions of patients: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/nhs/10659147/Patient-records-should-not-have-been-sold-NHS-admits.html

information governance assessment: http://www.hscic.gov.uk/media/12866/caredata-addendum---Information-Governance-Assessment/pdf/care.data_addendum_-_IG_assessment_-_September_2013_(NIC-178106-MLSWX.A0913).pdf

SURVEYS

The Huff

The Huff: http://www.badscience.net/2008/01/the-huff/

remains in print: How to Lie: http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Lie-Statistics-Penguin-Business/dp/0140136290/tag=bs0b-21

Doctors say no to abortions: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/29/nabort129.xml

I hope that DNUK: http://www.doctors.net.uk/

A New and Interesting Form of Wrong

A New and Interesting: http://www.badscience.net/2010/11/1864/

reported in the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/15/gay-people-coming-out-younger-age

its press release: http://www.stonewall.org.uk/media/current_releases/4867.asp

an interesting problem: http://bengoldacre.posterous.com/an-interesting-survival-analysis-problem-via

‘Hello Madam, Would You Like Your Children to Be Unemployed?’

Hello Madam: http://www.badscience.net/2010/11/hello-madam-would-you-like-your-children-to-be-unemployed/

secret nuclear bunker: http://www.secretnuclearbunker.com/

Project Redsand: http://www.project-redsand.com/

travelled to Dungeness: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeness_%28 headland%29

toytown narrow-gauge railway: http://www.rhdr.org.uk/

Derek Jarman’s house: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/allotment/2008/feb/27/dereksretreat

terrifying nuclear power station: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeness_Nuclear_Power_Station

BBC dutifully reported: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-11521839

the original polling questions: http://www.climatesock.com/2010/11/don%E2%80%99t-just-believe-what-you%E2%80%99re-told-about-polls/

EPIDEMIOLOGY

Beau Funnel

The BBC has found a story: UK bowel cancer rates: http://www.theguardian.com/media/bbc

variation in UK bowel cancer rates: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-14854019

average death rate: http://www.theguardian.com/society/bowel-cancer

Paul Barden: http://pb204.blogspot.com/

decided to download the data: http://pb204.blogspot.com/2011/09/three-fold-variation-in-uk-bowel-cancer.html

come from a press release: http://www.beatingbowelcancer.org/news/sep2011/charity-warns-wide-variations-bowel-cancer-death-rates-must-not-be-ignored

Beating Bowel Cancer: http://www.theguardian.com/society/cancer

built a map: http://www.bowelcancermap.org/

the Poisson distribution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_distribution

bell-shaped curve: http://www.etsy.com/listing/48582479/standard-normal-distribution-plushie

series of simulations: http://pb204.blogspot.com/2011/09/three-fold-variation-in-uk-bowel-cancer.html

Understanding Uncertainty: http://understandinguncertainty.org/

Spiegelhalter suggested that Barden: http://pb204.blogspot.com/2011/09/im-grateful-to-david-spiegelhalter-of.html

Comparing Institutional Performance: http://medicine.cf.ac.uk/media/filer_public/2010/10/11/journal_club_-_spiegelhalter_stats_in_med_funnel_plots.pdf

the citation classic: http://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?cluster=12057401031362296814

The Public Health Observatories: http://www.apho.org.uk/

several neat tools: http://www.apho.org.uk/default.aspx?QN=HP_INTERACTIVE2011

draw a funnel plot: http://tools.erpho.org.uk/poisson.aspx

When Journalists Do Primary Research

When Journalists: http://www.badscience.net/2011/04/when-journalists-do-primary-research/

said the Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/8434106/Recession-linked-to-huge-rise-in-use-of-antidepressants.html

said the Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1374284/Depression-Economic-slump-fuels-43-rise-use-anti-depressants.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

being handed antidepressants: http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/239413/Money-worries-driving-more-to-pills

the Guardian joined in: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/apr/07/dramatic-rise-antidpressant-prescriptions-money-worries

seems to have come from BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12986314

2009 data: http://www.ic.nhs.uk/statistics-and-data-collections/primary-care/prescriptions/prescription-cost-analysis-england--2009

due about now: http://www.ic.nhs.uk/statistics-and-data-collections/primary-care/prescriptions

antidepressant prescribing: http://www.bmj.com/content/339/bmj.b3999.full

British Journal of General Practice: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1839016/?tool=pubmed

2.8 million: http://2.8.mil/

The BMJ paper: http://www.bmj.com/content/339/bmj.b3999.full

Confound You!

Unplanned children develop more slowly: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/07/27/unplanned-children-develop-more-slowly/

IVF children have bigger vocabulary: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/8663105/IVF-children-have-bigger-vocabulary-than-unplanned-babies.html

Children born after an unwanted pregnancy: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-07/bmj-cba072511.php

this BMJ paper: http://www.bmj.com/content/343/bmj.d4473.full

Bicycle Helmets and the Law

Dennis and colleagues: http://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f2674

‘seems to have been minimal’: http://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f2674?ijkey=f5e18ac0289812fef1140ebb4f839638e47d085c&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha

come to different conclusions: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18646128?access_num=18646128&link_type=MED&dopt=Abstract

less likely to have a head injury: http://summaries.cochrane.org/CD001855/INJ_wearing-a-helmet-dramatically-reduces-the-risk-of-head-and-facial-injuries-for-bicyclists-involved-in-a-crash-even-if-it-involves-a-motor-vehicle

‘documented in many fields: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1539-6924.2011.01589.x/abstract and Adams, J., Risk. Taylor & Francis, 2002.

larger clearance to cyclists without: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17064655?access_num=17064655&link_type=MED&dopt=Abstract

outweigh the risks of crashes: http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/disease-prevention/physical-activity/activities/hepa-europe/hepa-europe-projects-and-working-groups/development-of-methods-for-quantification-of-health-benefits-from-walking-and-cycling

such as for children: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1539-6924.2011.01785.x/abstract

cycling in the second group: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1369847812000587

Smeed’s Law: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16389930?access_num=16389930&link_type=MED&dopt=Abstract

speculative assumptions: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1539-6924.2012.01770.x/abstract

emotional response: http://psycnet.apa.org/?&fa=main.doiLanding& doi=10.1037/0278-6133.24.4.S35

Screen Test

Screen Test: http://www.badscience.net/2008/01/screen-test/

Screening and repairing: http://www.mrw.interscience.wiley.com/cochrane/clsysrev/articles/CD002945/frame.html

mammogram screening for breast cancer: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=556337

Researchers have studied: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/332/7540/538

repeatedly been shown: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/328/7432/148?ijkey=c30d4caac1758e2a62478825d4943f10820ae34c&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha

at least one large survey: http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/291/1/71?ijkey=5b96d0b882f4bef1847b1dc3364754c3bbd31b05&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha

How Do You Know?

mobile phones: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/mobilephones

cause brain cancer: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/may/31/mobile-phone-radiation-cancer-risk

part of the WHO: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Agency_for_Research_on_Cancer

triggered over 3000 articles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organisation

only a press release: http://news.google.co.uk/news/story?pz=1&cf=all&ned=uk&hl=en&q=iarc&ncl=dZVLtSHEkU8Cq_MxKk 87AKCKGvSrM

limits of the research: http://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/pr/2011/pdfs/pr208_E.pdf

hasn’t changed much: http://journals.lww.com/epidem/Fulltext/2009/09000/Health_Effects_of_Mobile_Telephones.6.aspx

in every 100,000: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/StatBase/Product.asp?vlnk=7720

‘prospective cohort study’: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/StatBase/Product.asp?vlnk=7720

’prospective cohort study’: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohort_study

‘retrospective case-control study’: http://resources.bmj.com/bmj/readers/readers/epidemiology-for-the-uninitiated/8-case-control-and-cross-sectional-studies

Interphone study: http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/39/3/675.abstract

Anecdotes Are Great. If They Really Illustrate the Data

Channel 4 News: http://www.channel4.com/news/catch-up/display/playlistref/250711/clipid/250711_4ON_DUCHENNE_25

Study shows no such thing: http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2811%2960756-3/abstract

Great Ormond Street press release: http://bgarchive.posterous.com/first-targeted-treatment-success-for-duchenne

tracked down online: http://twitter.com/%C2%A3%21/uclnews/status/95506900220776449

Evan Harris: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/political-science

has been supoptimal: http://www.badscience.net/2009/05/dodgy-academic-pr/

biggest diseases in medicine: http://www.theguardian.com/education/medicine

patients on doxazosin: http://ebm.bmj.com/content/5/6/172.full.pdf

blood test called HbA1c: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycated_hemoglobin

reduce your HbA1c level: http://www.bmj.com/content/341/bmj.c4805.full

turned out that rosiglitazone: http://www.badscience.net/index.php?s=rosiglitazone

drug has now been suspended: http://www.ema.europa.eu/ema/index.jsp?curl=pages/news_and_events/news/2010/09/news_detail_001119.jsp&murl=menus/news_and_events/news_and_events.jsp&mi d=WC0b01ac058004d5c1&jsenabled=false

The Strange Case of the Magnetic Wine

The Strange Case: http://www.badscience.net/2003/12/the-strange-case-of-the-magnetic-wine/

What Is Science?: First, Magnetise Your Wine

What Is Science: http://www.badscience.net/2005/12/what-is-science-first-magnetise-your-wine/

BAD ACADEMIA

What If Academics Were as Dumb as Quacks with Statistics

What if Academics: http://www.badscience.net/2011/10/what-if-academics-were-as-dumb-as-quacks-with-statistics/

publish a mighty torpedo: http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v14/n9/full/nn.2886.html

Brain-Imaging Studies Report More Positive Findings Than Their Numbers Can Support. This Is Fishy

Brain-Imaging Studies: http://www.badscience.net/2011/08/brain-imaging-studies-report-more-positive-findings-than-their-numbers-can-support-this-is-fishy/

publication bias:http://www.badscience.net/category/publication-bias/

took a different approach: http://archpsyc.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/archgenpsychiatry.2011.28

‘None of Your Damn Business’

None of Your: http://www.badscience.net/2011/01/none-of-your-damn-business/

2004 published a study: http://ats.ctsnetjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/annts;78/4/1433

it was retracted: http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/2011/01/04/thoracic-surgery-journal-retracts-hypertension-study-marred-by-troubled-data/

Dr L. Henry Edmunds Jr, MD: http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/surgery/faculty/lhe.html

none of your damn business: http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/2011/01/05/why-was-that-paper-retracted-editor-to-retraction-watch-its-none-of-your-damn-business/

retracted a 2009 paper: http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/2010/12/17/journal-of-the-american-chemical-society-retracts-gold-nanoparticle-paper/

ad hoc blog tracking: http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/2010/08/03/why-write-a-blog-about-retractions/

stories behind retractions: http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/2010/10/22/update-on-axel-ullrich-retractions-lead-author-manipulated-figures-says-ullrich/

study last year: http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.1185/03007991003603804

policing academic misconduct: http://www.bmj.com/content/331/7511/288.full

Twelve Monkeys. No … Eight. Wait, Sorry, I Meant Fourteen

Twelve Monkeys: http://www.badscience.net/2010/01/12-monkeys-no-8-wait-sorry-i-meant-14/

Animals in Research: http://www.nc3rs.org.uk/

PLoS One: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0007824

Medical Hypotheses Fails the Aids Test

Medical Hypotheses: http://www.badscience.net/2009/09/medical-hypotheses-fails-the-aids-test/

in the newspapers: http://news.google.co.uk/news/more?um=1&ned=uk&cf=all&ncl=dEYVi6Gb688Hm1MSCLQllCltTV9pM

Peer review: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_review

Aidstruth.org: http://aidstruth.org/about

Elsevier have withdrawn: http://aidstruth.org/news/2009/elsevier-retracts-duesberg%E2%80%99s-aids-denialist-article

one surreally crass paper: http://www.badscience.net/2007/08/observations-on-the-classification-of-idiots/

Italian doctors argued: http://www.badscience.net/2007/08/observations-on-the-classification-of-idiots/

treatment for nasal congestion: http://www.badscience.net/2008/10/more-crap-journals/

Peter Duesberg and David Rasnick: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19619953

Lancet paper they reference: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16890831

Bruce Charlton has argued: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/335/7617/451

written to Medline: http://www.aidstruth.org/sites/aidstruth.org/files/NLMLetter-2009.08.05.pdf

deaths of an estimated: http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/107/427/157

330,000 people: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18931626

Observations on the Classification of Idiots

Observations on: http://www.badscience.net/2007/08/observations-on-the-classification-of-idiots/

More Crap Journals?

More Crap Journals: http://www.badscience.net/2008/10/more-crap-journals/

potential treatment of nasal congestion: http://www.medical-hypotheses.com/article/S0306-9877(08)00115-1/fulltext

unreliable and potentially hazardous: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030698770800354X

surreally crass paper: http://www.badscience.net/2007/08/observations-on-the-classification-of-idiots/

only one in four: http://www.badscience.net/2008/09/seriously-is-the-daily-mail-any-worse-than-your-average-academic-journal/

GOVERNMENT STATISTICS

If You Want to Be Trusted More: Claim Less

If You Want: http://www.badscience.net/2010/01/if-you-want-to-be-trusted-more-claim-less/

Sunday Times: http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/public_sector/article6974029.ece

copycat story: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/6925897/Public-pay-races-ahead-in-recession.html

Survey of Hours and Earnings: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statBase/product.asp?vlnk=13101

ASHE 2009 data: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_labour/ASHE-2009/tab1_5a.xls

Is This the Worst Government Statistic Ever Created?

costs every household £452: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2004590/Council-incompetence-costing-household-Britain-452-year.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

the Express agreed: http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/253235/Councils-owe-you-rebate

proper story, from press release: http://www.communities.gov.uk/news/corporate/1925280

Department of Communities and Local Government: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/localgovernment

‘Opera Solutions White Paper’: http://www.badscience.net/wp-content/uploads/Opera-gov-savings-local-gov.pdf

The ‘full report’: http://www.badscience.net/wp-content/uploads/Opera-gov-savings-local-gov.pdf

the biggest thing: http://www.niepbuiltenvironment.org.uk/documents/ReportonPotentialLocalGovernmentSavingsthrough BetterProcurementF.doc

Anarchy for the UK. Ish.

Anarchy for the UK: http://www.badscience.net/2011/04/anarchy-for-the-uk-ish/

The Sun said: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3494359/Cops-charge-149-after-protest-against-cuts-turns-ugly.html

149 people charged: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/mar/28/cuts-protest-violence-149-chargedhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/mar/28/cuts-protest-violence-149-charged

the Manchester Evening News carried: http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/1416475_boy-17-from-manchester-among-149-charged-over-violence-after-anti-cuts-march

138 were people: http://www.met.police.uk/pressbureau/Bur27/page01.htm

peaceful occupation of Fortnum & Mason: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/mar/28/cuts-protest-uk-uncut-fortnum

systematic review: http://www.bmj.com/content/340/bmj.c2369.full

sports participation in Barcelona: http://olympicstudies.uab.es/pdf/wp039_eng.pdf

being quietly dropped: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/mar/28/jeremy-hunt-london-2012-legacy

More Than Sixty Children Saved from Abuse

More than Sixty: http://www.badscience.net/2010/08/more-than-60-children-saved-from-abuse/

during its pilot: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/media-centre/news/child-protection-scheme

the Sun said: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3077347/Sarahs-Law-hailed-a-success-as-scheme-rolls-out-nationwide.html

an excellent report: http://rds.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs10/horr32c.pdf

Conrad Quilty-Harper in the Telegraph: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/conradquiltyharper/100049409/the-sarahs-law-trial-didnt-save-60-children-from-sex-offenders/

FullFact: http://www.fullfact.org/blogdetail/sarahs_law_the_story_behind_the_statistics

Home Taping Didn’t Kill Music

Home Taping: http://www.badscience.net/2009/06/home-taping-didnt-kill-music/

Costs Billions: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2454908/Downloading-costs-billions.html

Daily Mail was worried: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1189509/Illegal-file-sharing-downloads-cost-thousands-British-jobs-year.htm

also buy more music: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/apr/21/study-finds-pirates-buy-more-music

the original report: http://www.sabip.org.uk/sabip-ciberreport.pdf

called CIBER: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/research/ciber/

called SABIP: http://www.sabip.org.uk/

full CIBER documents: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/research/ciber/

2004 press release: http://www.iprights.com/publications/Alert_156.pdf

by a BBC journalist: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8073068.stm

Is This a Joke?

Is This a Joke: http://www.badscience.net/2009/07/is-this-a-joke/

published a consultation paper: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/documents/cons-2009-dna-database/

EVIDENCE-BASED POLICY

I’d Expect This from UKIP or the Daily Mail. Not from a Government Leaflet

I’d Expect This: http://www.badscience.net/2011/04/id-expect-this-from-ukip-or-the-daily-mail-not-from-a-government-leaflet/

For A Stronger NHS: http://www.dh.gov.uk/prod_consum_dh/groups/dh_digitalassets/documents/digitalasset/dh_125855.pdf

paper in the British Journal of Cancer: http://www.nature.com/bjc/journal/v101/n2s/full/6605401a.html

we’ve seen this a lot: http://www.badscience.net/2011/04/2011/02/why-is-evidence-so-hard-for-politicians/

NHS workforce data: http://www.ic.nhs.uk/webfiles/publications/010_Workforce/provisionalmonthlyhchsworkforce/Dec10/FINAL_Table_National.xls

NHS Information Centre figures: http://www.ic.nhs.uk/pubs/nhsworkforce

total number of doctors: http://www.ic.nhs.uk/webfiles/publications/010_Workforce/nhsstaff9909/NHS_Staff_1999_2009_Master_Table.xls

British Social Attitudes Survey: http://www.straightstatistics.org/blog/2011/03/29/kings-fund-rescue-social-attitudes-survey

Question 583: http://www.natcen.ac.uk/media/299809/bsa2007questionnaire.pdf

that costs £52: http://www.uk.sagepub.com/booksProdDesc.nav?prodId=Book 233725

defies all reason: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/apr/13/andrewlansley-health

Andrew Lansley and His Imaginary Evidence

Andrew Lansley: http://www.badscience.net/2011/02/andrew-lansley-and-his-imaginary-evidence/

NHS in thirty years: http://www.bmj.com/content/341/bmj.c3843.full

few of them properly studied: http://www.bmj.com/content/341/bmj.c3843.full

Kay in 2002: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1314221/

Greener and Mannion: http://www.bmj.com/content/333/7579/1168.full

In 1995 Coulter: http://eurpub.oxfordjournals.org/content/5/4/233.abstract

Petchley found: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736%2895%2991805-1

‘NHS Operating Framework’: http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Managingyour organisation/Financeandplanning/Planningframework/index.htm

Working from first principles: http://www.niesr.ac.uk/event/propper.pdf

evidence on fixed-price competition: http://nedwards.posterous.com/competition-in-healthcare

death rate from heart attacks: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1360901/

while in the UK: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cmpo/publications/papers/2010/abstract242.html

to take just two things: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736%2810%2961231-7

John Appleby: http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.d566.full

Why Is Evidence So Hard for Politicians?

Why is Evidence: http://www.badscience.net/2011/02/why-is-evidence-so-hard-for-politicians/

Last week we saw: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/05/lansley-use-word-evidence

misleading static figures: http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.d566.full

Paul Burstow has kindly responded: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/feb/08/deconstruction-of-the-nhs-bill?INTCMP=SRCH

gap is closing so rapidly: http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.d566.full

McKee and Nolte: http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Content/Publications/In-the-Literature/2008/Jan/Measuring-the-Health-of-Nations--Updating-an-Earlier-Analysis.aspx

‘overlooked the impact assessment’: http://www.dh.gov.uk/prod_consum_dh/groups/dh_digitalassets/documents/digitalasset/dh_123582.pdf

the four peer-reviewed academic papers: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1314221, http://www.bmj.com/content/333/7579/1168.extract, http://eurpub.oxfordjournals.org/content/5/4/233.abstract and http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0140673695918051

Politicians Can Divine Which Policy Works Best by Using Their Special Magic Politician Beam

Politicians Can Divine: http://www.badscience.net/2010/05/politicians-can-divine-which-policy-works-best-by-using-their-special-magic-politician-beam/

‘Programme for Government’: http://www.direct.gov.uk/prod_consum_dg/groups/dg_digitalassets/@dg/@en/documents/digitalasset/dg_187876.pdf

piloted in three cities: http://rds.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs2/r184.pdf

drug use is estimated: http://www.tdpf.org.uk/MediaNews_Fact ResearchGuide_prisons.htm

Pornography in Hospitals

Pornography in Hospitals: http://www.badscience.net/2010/09/pornography-in-hospitals/

angry about pornography: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3129151/Taxpayers-foot-bill-for-donors-porn-on-the-National-Health-Service-says-2020healthorg-report.html

Telegraph immediately followed suit: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7988367/NHS-buys-porn-for-sperm-donors.html

Who said pornography was acceptable: http://www.2020health.org/research/porn.html

Hemsworth and Galloway: http://www.animalreproductionscience.com/article/0378-4320%2879%2990025-3/abstract

not present in rams: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0168-1591%2891%2990138-N

Mader and colleagues: http://jas.fass.org/cgi/content/abstract/59/2/294?ijkey=7e44681dab39ded34d438b6638e77eebc54cda3e& keytype2=tf_ipsecsha

Price and colleagues: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0168-1591%2884%2990054-6

Kerruish reported: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0950-5601%2855%2980049-4

Kilgallon and Simmons: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1617155/

Zbinden and colleagues: http://beheco.oxfordjournals.org/content/15/1/137.full

Yamamoto and colleagues: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1439-0272.2000.tb02877.x/abstract

impossible to ejaculate: http://humrep.oxfordjournals.org/content/19/9/2088.abstract

The Power of Ideas

Atheist’s Guide to Christmas: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0007322615?ie=UTF8&ref_=sr_1_1&s=books&qid=1260957597&sr=1-1&linkCode=shr&camp=3194&creative=21330&tag=bs0b-21

‘Exams Are Getting Easier’

‘Exams are Getting Easier’: http://www.badscience.net/2010/08/exams-are-getting-easier/

‘The Flynn Effect’: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect

‘The Five Decade Challenge’: http://www.rsc.org/images/ExamReport_tcm18-139067.pdf

study of just this: http://www.ons.gov.uk/about-statistics/ukcemga/work-areas/justice--education-and-children/changes-in-standards-at-gcse-and-a-level.doc

‘Measuring the Mathematics Problem’: http://www.engc.org.uk/ecukdocuments/internet/document library/Measuring the Mathematic Problems.pdf

Over There! An Eight-Mile-High Distraction Made of Posh Chocolate

Over There!: http://www.badscience.net/2009/08/check-me-out-i-bought-some-posh-chocolate-im-political/

two review papers: http://www.food.gov.uk/news/newsarchive/2009/jul/organic

in terms of composition: http://www.food.gov.uk/multimedia/pdfs/organicreviewappendices.pdf

or health benefits: http://www.food.gov.uk/multimedia/pdfs/organicreviewreport.pdf

blanket right of reply: http://news.google.co.uk/news?ned=uk&hl=en&ncl=d0-fIEkn R_72tGMiU0uORy7OgGBTM&cf=all

Don’t talk about that: http://www.badscience.net/2007/04/this-ageing-breadhead-guy-is-totally-angry-with-me/

pharmaceutical companies before it: http://www.badscience.net/2008/04/cliff-richard-gloria-hunniford-carole-caplin-the-60bn-food-supplement-industry-and-the-quantum-xrroid-dude-refute-a-cochrane-meta-analysis/

example from its press release: http://www.soilassociation.org/News/NewsItem/tabid/91/smid/463/ArticleID/97/reftab/57/t/Soil-Association-response-to-the-Food-Standards-Agency-s-Organic-Review/Default.aspx

www.qlif.org: http://www.qlif.org/

list of 120 papers: http://orgprints.org/view/projects/eu_qlif.html

immune parameters in rat: http://orgprints.org/12653/

Salmonella Infection Level: http://orgprints.org/13728/

As Far as I Understand Thinktanks …

As Far as I: http://www.badscience.net/2008/06/707/

Meaningful Debates Need Clear Information

Meaningful Debates: http://www.badscience.net/2007/10/557/

in the Independent: http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article3084306.ece

and the Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/15/nabortion115.xml

on Channel 4: http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/society/health/abortion+limit+row+looming/924147

anything to declare: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/oct/15/sciencenews.medicineandhealth

Further references:

Here is the oral evidence: www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/science_and_technology_committee/scitechfm151007.cfm

Here are the memos, Prof Wyatt’s are the last two in this PDF, and one earlier one: www.parliament.uk/documents/upload/SDAevidence.pdf

Minority Report

Minority Report: http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/minority-retort/

published as an appendix: http://www.badscience.net/wp-content/uploads/hc-1045-i-final-abortion-report.pdf

where they talk about me: http://www.badscience.net/2007/10/oooooh-im-in-the-minority-report/

on 27 October an article: http://www.badscience.net/2007/10/557/

DRUGS

A Rock of Crack as Big as the Ritz

A Rock of Crack: http://www.badscience.net/2009/02/a-rock-of-crack-as-big-as-the-ritz/

Daily Mail headline: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1149207/How-using-Facebook-raise-risk-cancer.html

Facebook Could Raise your Risk: http://www.nhs.uk/news/2009/02February/Pages/Facebookhealthstudy.aspx

said the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/18/taliban-british-troops-drugs

In the Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/onthefrontline/4681443/British-forces-in-Afghanistan-seize-50m-of-heroin-and-kill-20-Taliban.html

MoD press release: http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/MilitaryOperations/HelicopterborneTroopsStrikeAtTalibansDrugIndustry.htm

chemicals and vats: http://www.metimes.com/International/2008/05/14/converting_afghan_opium_into_heroin/3696/

2008 world report: http://www.unodc.org/documents/crop-monitoring/Afghanistan_Opium_Survey_2008.pdf

cheap and easy: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/heroin/transform/

wholesale price fallen dramatically: http://www.unodc.org/documents/wdr/WDR_2008/WDR2008_Statistical_Annex_Prices.pdf

The Least Surrogate Outcome

The Least Surrogate: http://www.badscience.net/2008/04/the-least-surrogate-outcome/

aren’t very informative: http://www.jstor.org/pss/3552863

or reliable: http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/full/129/12/1066?ck=nck

Drugs: Protecting Families and Communities: http://drugs.homeoffice.gov.uk/publication-search/drug-strategy/drug-action-plan-2008-2011?view=Binary

Public Service Agreement Delivery: http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/media/B/1/pbr_csr07_psa25.pdf

Heroin on Prescription

Berridge, V., Edwards, G. (1981), Opium and the People, Harmondsworth: Penguin

Caplehorn, J.R., Irwig, L., Saunders, J.B., ‘Attitudes and beliefs of staff working in methadone maintenance clinics’, Subst Use Misuse, 1996 Mar; 31(4): 437–52

Clark, D. (1980), ‘Smack in the capital’, Time Out, no. 51, pp.11–13

Dole V.P., Nyswander, M. A., ‘medical treatment for diacetyl morphine (heroin) addiction’, JAMA 1965;193:80-4

Dorn, N., Baker, O., Seddon, T. (1994), ‘Paying for heroin: estimating the financial cost of acquisitive crime committed by dependent heroin users in England and Wales’, Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence (ISDD), London, 1994

European Centre for the Epidemiological Monitoring of AIDS, 1996, cited in UNDCP 1997, p. 311

Follett et al., ‘HIV antibody in drug-abusers in the West of Scotland: the Edinburgh connection’, Lancet, 1986 i, 446

Gilman, M., Pearson, G., ‘Lifestyles and law enforcement’ in Policing and Prescribing: The British System of Drug Control, eds. Whynes, D.K., Bean, P.T. Macmillan: London, 1991

Glossop, M., ‘Verschreibung von Heroin und anderen injizierbaren Drogen an Ahbangige aus Britischer Sicht’, Sucht 1994; 5: 325-33 (translated in ‘report of the committee of the health council of the Netherlands’, 1995)

Gossop, M., Strang, J., Connell, P., ‘The response of outpatient opiate addicts to the provision of a temporary increase in their prescribed drugs’, Br J Psych 1982; 141: 338-43

Gossop, M., Strang, J. (1991), ‘A comparison of the withdrawal responses of heroin and methadone addicts dutin detoxification’, Br J Psych 1991; 158: 697-9

Harding-Pink, D., ‘Methadone: one person’s maintenance dose is another man’s poison’, Lancet 1996; 341.

HMSO Ministry of Health (1965), Drug Addiction: the second report of the inter-departmental committee. London: HMSO.

Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence (1994), Drug Misuse in Britain 1994. London: ISDD.

ISDD Druglink 1996: 11i p.6

Lewis, R., ‘Serious business: the global heroin economy’ in Henman, A., Lewis, R., Malyon, T. (eds.), The Big Deal. London: Pluto Press, 1985.

Marks, J.A., ‘The North Wind and the Sun’, Proc Roy Coll Phys Edin 1991 21(3); 319-327

Maudsley, G., Williams, E., ‘Inaccuracy in death certification: where are we now?’, J Public Health Med 1996; 18: 59-66

Mott, J. ‘Crime and Heroin Use’ in Policing and Prescribing: The British System of Drug Control, eds. Whynes, D.K., Bean, P.T. Macmillan: London, 1991.

Newcombe, R. (1992), ‘The reduction of drug-related harm: a conceptual framework for theory, practice, and research’ in O’Hare et al (eds.), The Reduction of Drug Related Harm. London: Routledge, 1992

Newcombe, R., ISDD Druglink 1996: 11(i), pp.9–12

Newcombe R, Parker H., ‘Heroin use and acquisitive crime in an English Community’, Br J Sociol 1987, 38: 331–350

Payne-James, J.J., Dean, P.J., Keys, D.W. (1994), ‘Drug misusers in police custody’, J R Soc Med 1994; 87: 13–14

Plant, M.A., Drugs in Perspective. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1987

Robertson et al (1986), ‘Epidemic of AIDS-related virus infection among intravenous heroin users’, British Medical Journal 292, pp.527–9.

Sobell, L.C. (1990), ‘The aftermath of heresy: drinking and life events’, in Miller, W.R., Greeley, J.G. (eds.), Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on the Treatment of Addictive Behaviours (ICTAB-5). Sydney: Pergamon Press.

Spear, H.B. (1969), ‘The growth of heroin addiction in the UK’, British Journal of Addiction, 64, pp. 245–55

Stewart, T., The Heroin Users. Guernsey: Guernsey Press, 1987

Stimson, G.V., Oppenheimer, E., Thorley, A. (1978), ‘Seven year follow up of heroin addicts’, British Medical Journal, 1978: i 11

Stimson G.V., Oppenheimer E. (1982), Heroin Addiction. London: Tavistock Press

United Nations Drug Control Program, World Drug Report. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997

Vaillant, G.E., ‘Centennial Address, Society for the Study of Addiction to Alcohol and Other Drugs’. Proc R Soc Med, November 1984

World Health Organisation, The HIV/AIDS Pandemic, 1994 Overview, WHO/GPA/TCO/SEF/94.4, 1994

LIBEL

NMT Is Suing Dr Peter Wilmshurst. So How Trustworthy Is This Company?Let’s Look at Its Website …

NMT is Suing: http://www.badscience.net/2010/12/nmt-are-suing-dr-wilmshurst-so-how-trustworthy-are-they/

MIST trial was funded: http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/reprint/CIRCULATIONAHA.107.727271v1

go to its website: http://www.nmtmedical.com/

outcome of MIST trial: http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/reprint/CIRCULATIONAHA.107.727271v1

really was negative: http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/short/CIRCULATIONAHA.107.727271v1

a lengthy correction: http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/120/9/e71

2005 NMT report: http://www.snl.com/IRWebLinkX/GenPage.aspx?IID=4148066&GKP=202513

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

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

Doctor’s MMR fears: http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/112286/Doctor-s-MMR-fears

‘Linked to Phone Masts’: http://www.badscience.net/category/roger-coghill/

published a long time ago: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19501728

disappeared from Express website: http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/131817/Jab-as-deadly-as-the-cancer-

Health Warning: Exercise Makes You Fat

Health Warning: http://www.badscience.net/2009/08/health-warning-exercise-makes-you-fat/

forty-three trials: http://mrw.interscience.wiley.com/cochrane/clsysrev/articles/CD003817/frame.html

exercise for weight loss: http://mrw.interscience.wiley.com/cochrane/clsysrev/articles/CD003817/frame.html

The Caveat in Paragraph Number 19

The Caveat: http://www.badscience.net/2010/10/the-caveat-in-paragraph-number-19/

Oncological Ontology Project: http://thedailymailoncologicalontol ogyproject.wordpress.com/

Kill Or Cure: http://kill-or-cure.heroku.com/

40 per cent: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1317856/Strict-diet-days-week-cuts-risk-breast-cancer-40-cent.html

the academic paper: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20921964

look at the penis: http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/070312ruel/

early study in 1990: http://eyetrack.poynter.org/previous.html

most recent project: http://eyetrack.poynter.org/keys_01.html

Why Don’t Journalists Link to Primary Sources

Why Don’t Journalists: http://www.badscience.net/2011/03/why-dont-journalists-link-to-primary-sources/

Wind farms blamed: http://bengoldacre.posterous.com/how-far-will-the-daily-telegraph-distort-a-st

open-access academic paper: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0017009

end of the press release: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/news/archive/2011/Title,65795,en.html

now deleted: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/windpower/8382476/Wind-farms-blamed-for-stranding-of-whales.html

miserly correction: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/wind power/8388273/Correction-whales-and-wind-farms.html

secret to shapely legs: http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/news-features/TMG8296453/Why-stilettos-are-the-secret-to-shapely-legs.html

shapelier legs than flats: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1352831/Victoria-Beckham-Stilettos-women-shapelier-legs-flats.html

Stilettos tone up: http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/226658/Stilettos-tone-up-your-legs/Stilettos-tone-up-your-legs

read even the press release: http://www.hmc.edu/newsandevents/ahn-examines-the-human-leg.html

Daily Mail: http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2011/03/17/no-need-to-worry-about-having-a-shower-or-drinking-water/

read the original paper: http://www.ehjournal.net/content/pdf/1476-069X-10-18.pdf

or even the press release: http://www.creal.cat/en_noticies/view.php?ID=85

simple distortion: http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2011/03/17/no-need-to-worry-about-having-a-shower-or-drinking-water/

A Fishy Friend, and His Friends

A Fishy Friend: http://www.badscience.net/2010/06/the-return-of-a-2bn-fishy-friend/

Fish oil helps: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/may/30/fish-oil-supplement-concentration

omega-3 fish oil pill: http://www.badscience.net/category/fish-oil/

Denis Campbell: http://www.badscience.net/2007/07/british-medical-journal-mmr-the-scare-stories-are-back/

was indeed the paper: http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/91/4/1060

published in full this year: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2010.01.014

estimates global sales: http://www.nutraingredients-usa.com/Consumer-Trends/Markets-Leaders-in-global-brain-food-sales

reproduced below in full: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/jeremy-laurance-dr-goldacre-doesnt-make-everything-better-1994017.html

MMR: The Scare Stories Are Back

MMR: http://www.badscience.net/2007/07/british-medical-journal-mmr-the-scare-stories-are-back/

Prevention Is Better Than Cure When It Comes to Health Scares

suspected death: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-22385218

vaccine caused autism: http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/vaccinations/Pages/mmr-vaccine.aspx

dozens of vaccine scares: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0f90ac7a-a67c-11e2-885b-00144feabdc0.html

Antivaccination campaigners: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/a2f9f1a6-50e3-11e0-8931-00144feab49a.html

part of a plot: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2a9e6704-b0d2-11e2-9f24-00144feabdc0.html

Dodgy Academic PR

Dodgy Academic PR: http://www.badscience.net/2009/05/dodgy-academic-pr/

Annals of Internal Medicine: http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/abstract/150/9/613

Suicide

Suicide: http://www.badscience.net/2009/03/suicide/

it has been shown: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11630757

repeatedly: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0049-089X%2891%2990016-V

increased by 17 per cent: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/318/7189/972?view=long &pmid=10195966

a significant decrease: http://www.springerlink.com/content/98rw3lycjnkgg9a3/

Roger Coghill and the Aids Test

Roger Coghill: http://www.badscience.net/2008/06/roger-coghill-fails-the-aids-test/

linked to phone masts: http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/49330/Suicides-linked-to-phone-masts-

evidence of a possible link: http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/healthy living/cancercontroversies/howdoweknow/

Broad Street pump: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Snow_(physician)

a ‘stakeholder’ group: http://www.rkpartnership.co.uk/sage/

specialises in mediation: http://www.rkpartnership.co.uk/whatwedo.php

their last document: http://www.rkpartnership.co.uk/sage/Public/SAGE first interim assessment.pdf

angel investment: http://www.walesonline.co.uk/business-in-wales/business-news/2008/02/02/business-angel-supplements-for-launch-91466-20426842/

‘Asphalia’: http://www.asphalia.co.uk/

visited his website: http://www.galonja.co.uk/

protection equipment: http://www.galonja.co.uk/galonja_shop/product.asp?g_s_n=crlshop&g_u_no=0&g_u_nam=&g_tim=&pid=88&v_det=1&full=1&c_id=0

Acousticom: http://www.galonja.co.uk/galonja_shop/product.asp?g_s_n=crlshop&g_u_no=0&g_u_nam=&g_tim=&pid=104&v_det=1&full=1&c_id=0

makes wine taste nicer:http://www.galonja.co.uk/galonja_shop/product.asp?g_s_n=crlshop&g_u_no=0&g_u_nam=&g_tim=&pid=98&v_det=1&full=1&c_id=0

‘Mood Maker’: http://www.galonja.co.uk/galonja_shop/product.asp?g_s_n=crlshop&g_u_no=0&g_u_nam=&g_tim=&pid=97&v_det=1&full=1&c_id=0

Electrohealing: http://www.galonja.co.uk/galonja_shop/product.asp?g_s_n=crlshop&g_u_no=0&g_u_nam=&g_tim=&pid=46&v_det=1&full=1&c_id=0

Atlantis: http://www.galonja.co.uk/galonja_shop/product.asp?g_s_n=crlshop&g_u_no=0&g_u_nam=&g_tim=&pid=59&v_det=1&full=1&c_id=0

The Aids test: http://www.badscience.net/2007/12/aids-quackery-international-tour/, http://www.badscience.net/2007/09/homeopathy gives-you-aids/and http://www.badscience.net/2007/02/money-is-not-the-only-barrier-to-aids-patients-getting-hold-of-drugs/

Coghill on Aids: http://web.archive.org/web/20041013110533/http://www.cogreslab.co.uk/aids.htm

BRAINIAC

Ka-Boom! Science! COOL!!?!

Ka-Boom!: 831 http://www.badscience.net/2006/07/ka-boom/

Who’s the Daddy?

Who’s the Daddy?: http://www.badscience.net/2006/07/whos-the-daddy/

STUFF

Here’s My … Foreword to the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway Guidebook

Here’s my: http://www.badscience.net/2013/12/heres-my-intro-to-the-romney-hythe-and-dimchurch-railway-guidebook/

narrow gauge railway: http://www.rhdr.org.uk/

sound mirrors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_mirror

How I Stalked My Girlfriend

How I Stalked: http://www.badscience.net/2006/02/how-i-stalked-my-girlfriend/

EARLY SNARKS

Staying Beautiful Is Easy to Do

Staying Beautiful: http://www.badscience.net/2003/05/staying-beautiful-is-easy-to-do/

Because You’re Worth It

Because You’re: http://www.badscience.net/2003/11/because-youre-worth-it/

More Than Water?

More than Water?: http://www.badscience.net/2004/01/more-than-water/

‘Nanniebots’ to Catch Paedophiles

‘Nanniebots’: http://www.badscience.net/2004/03/nanniebots-to-catch-paedophiles/

New Scientist’s chat with Nanniebot: http://www.tinyurl.com/2y55h

talk to it online: http://www.tinyurl.com/2osgo

Nanniebots and Neverland

Nanniebots and Neverland: http://www.badscience.net/2004/04/nanniebots-and-neverland/

making false claims: tinyurl.com/3gfxv

modified the device to stream shows: tinyurl.com/38wmx

posting did state: tinyurl.com/2jg3p

chatnannies.com: http://chatnannies.com/

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence: http://www.badscience.net/2004/06/artificial-intransigence/

BOOKENDS

Be Very Afraid: The Bad Science Manifesto

Be Very Afraid: http://www.badscience.net/2003/04/be-very-afraid-the-bad-science-manifesto/

What Eight Years of Writing the Bad Science Column Has Taught Me

finish a book: http://www.badscience.net/books/the-drug-pushers/

what I’ve learned: http://www.badscience.net/2010/12/the-year-in-nonsense-2/and http://www.badscience.net/2009/12/the-year-in-nonsense/

in eight years: http://www.badscience.net/2008/12/the-year-in-bad-science-2/

writing this column: http://www.badscience.net/2007/12/the-year-in-bad-science-2007/and http://www.badscience.net/2006/12/the-year-in-bad-science/

Alternative therapists: http://www.badscience.net/category/complementary-medicine/

great teaching tool: http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/a-kind-of-magic/

medicines regulators: http://www.badscience.net/2011/02/pretending-that-evidence-is-difficult-and-complicated/

universities: http://www.badscience.net/2010/02/how-do-you-regulate-wu/

science and evidence in culture: http://www.badscience.net/2008/09/the-medicalisation-of-everyday-life/

their libel cases: http://www.badscience.net/category/libel/

comedy factory: http://www.badscience.net/2008/08/bill-nelson-wins-the-internet/and http://www.badscience.net/2007/05/the-amazing-qlink-science-pedant/

how the world works: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jul/08/bad-science-effective-things-silly-places

the placebo effect: http://www.badscience.net/category/placebo/

misled by heuristics: http://www.badscience.net/category/irrationality-research/

thrills, and power: http://www.badscience.net/2011/03/why-cigarette-packs-matter/

Pharmaceutical companies: http://www.badscience.net/category/big-pharma/

still won’t publish all: http://www.badscience.net/category/publication-bias/

we tolerate it: http://www.badscience.net/2011/03/when-regulation-is-opaque-trust-is-all-you-have/

Journalists: http://www.badscience.net/category/media/

can mislead the public: http://www.badscience.net/2010/10/the-caveat-in-paragraph-number-19/

the methods and techniques: http://www.badscience.net/2011/10/new-edition-of-testing-treatments-best-lay-text-on-evidence-based-medicine/

Politicians misuse evidence: http://www.badscience.net/category/politics/

and distort it: http://www.badscience.net/2011/04/id-expect-this-from-ukip-or-the-daily-mail-not-from-a-government-leaflet/

to shameful degrees: http://www.badscience.net/2011/02/andrew-lansley-and-his-imaginary-evidence/and http://www.badscience.net/2011/02/why-is-evidence-so-hard-for-politicians/

trials of policies: http://www.badscience.net/2011/05/we-should-so-blatantly-do-more-randomised-trials-on-policy/

if they achieve: http://www.badscience.net/2010/05/politicians-can-divine-which-policy-works-best-by-using-their-special-magic-politician-beam/

no honourable excuse: http://www.badscience.net/2009/09/blueprint-fail/

the fairest tests: http://www.badscience.net/category/evidence-based-policy/

Real scientists: http://www.badscience.net/2011/11/why-wont-professor-greenfield-publish-this-theory-in-a-scientific-journal/

clear line between the results: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jul/29/duchennes-muscular-dystrophy-surrogate-outcomes

nerds are more powerful: http://www.badscience.net/2011/06/kids-who-spot-bullshit-and-the-adults-who-get-upset-about-it/

best teaching gimmick: http://www.ted.com/talks/ben_goldacre_battling_bad_science.html

for explaining: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/28/bad-science-diy-data-analysis?INTCMP=SRCH

how good: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/sep/16/bad-science-dodgy-stats

science works: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/sep/09/bad-science-research-error