Having mentioned Ben Goldacre’s book Bad Science in my previous entry, I just wanted to emphasise how good his book is. Really, you owe it to yourself to get a copy of this book to buff up your bullshit detector. The blurb on the back of the book puts it well:
Ben Goldacre masterfully dismantles the dodgy science behind some of the great drug trials, court cases and missed opportunities of our time, but he also goes further: out of the bullshit, he shows us the fascinating story of how we know what we know, and gives us the tools to uncover bad science for ourselves.
And it’s funny, to boot.
Goldacre also has his own blog Bad Science, which is well worth keeping an eye on. I see that over the past few years, I’ve referred to things on his blog over 1,000 times. He’s very good at what he does.
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