Big Science - BWO

Lifting the lid on bad science in the media

Advantages: Fascinating insight into media manipulation and disinformation
Disadvantages: Hard to read at times

the stance of the government and the intervention of an alternative therapist peddling his vitamin pills are not only a viable alternative to AZT, but claiming that conventional drugs actually harm the patient. I shall not name this chap as; reading the book you will see what amount of litigation he has imposed previously on his critics in medicine and the media. MMR SCARES AND MORE The book also examines the role of media in reporting science stories, and you will be positively amazed when you hear the full story, and lack of evidence, behind the MMR autism scare from a few years back. This really is something else you want to read if you're a parent. One of the author's assertions is that the media get science stories so wrong because dedicated science correspondents are often ignored when it comes to reporting big stories, possibly ...

larsbaby 03.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Bad Science - Ben Goldacre

Not Weird Science - Bad Science

Advantages: debunking some of medicine's myths & misinformations, funny read
Disadvantages: man on a mission and with an agenda but who can blame him

Ben Goldacre is the very outspoken mouthpiece against really rubbish claims made by modern medicine or television charlatans. He is a medical doctor and journalist with a column in the Guardian newspaper with an uncanny bullsh*t detector second to none. I can?t remember when I first came across his ways of thinking but it must have been when I was looking for an answer to Gillian McKeith, a woman that makes my neck hair stand on end, someone I find appalling to the n-th degree. Lately I have seen him voice his opinion on London?s 6 o?clock news regarding LBC?s Jenni Barnett and her rather stupid musings on the MMR back in January and the other week on Watchdog when he was asked what he thought about some modern detox products. I bought the ?Bad Science? paperback when I was ordering a number of books from Amazon quite a few months back ...

Tempus_Fugit 13.04.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Bad Science - Ben Goldacre

A Sunday full of Science

Advantages: Never hearing yourself say "Don't touch that to the kids"
Disadvantages: An expensive day out and not fully functioning

When I first moved to Glasgow just over 6 years ago and while working as a temp, I found myself working for the Director of Buildings on what was effectively the building site of the planned Glasgow Science Centre. Added to the fact that the centre was based on the science centre in Canada and designed by many of the same Canadian designers who had been responsible for the Toronto centre, I have always felt a strange sense of loyalty to what is now the Glasgow Science Centre. However, this does not mean I am blind to the defects of the project. I have decided to review the Glasgow Science Centre following several visits with my boys as a mum and a visitor and with an unbiased approach. ***First Impression*** The Glasgow Science Centre can be seen for some distance from almost any angle as you approach. The entire centre is made up ...

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Review of Glasgow Science Centre