Ben Goldacre
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About Ben Goldacre
Ben Goldacre is a British science writer and psychiatrist. He is the author of The Guardian newspaper's weekly Bad Science column and a book of the same title, published by Fourth Estate in September 2008. Goldacre is the son of Michael Goldacre, professor of public health at the University of Oxford, the nephew of science journalist Robyn Williams, and the great-great-grandson of Sir Henry Parkes. Bad Science website
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TED: Ben Goldacre: Battling Bad Science - Ben Goldacre (2011)
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Part two of my Radio 4 show on the placebo effect, 9pm tonight (Monday)
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Podcast on government response to SciTech NHS homeopathy report
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TED: Ben Goldacre: What doctors don't know about the drugs they prescribe - Ben Goldacre (2012)
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More than molecules – how pill pushers and the media medicalise social problems [mp3 lecture]
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Bad Science (Unabridged) Part 1
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Bad Science (Unabridged) Part 2
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Placebo - Part 2/2 - BBC Radio 4
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Chapter 2: Brain Gym
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Chatting to a homeopath
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British Pharmacology Society P
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Chapter 1: Matter
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Chapter 3: The Progenium XY Complex
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Homeopathy phone ramble
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Bad Science - Part 2
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The barefaced cheek of these characters will never cease to amaze and delight me.
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Chapter 4: Homeopathy
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Bad Science - Part 1
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Bad Science - Part 3
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And then I was incompetently libelled by a litigious millionaire
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Introduction
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Bad Pharma (Unabridged) Part 1
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Bad Science - Part 4
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Bad Science - Part 6
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Bad Science - Part 5
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Chapter 6: The Nonsense Du Jour
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Chapter 8: 'Pill Solves Complex Social Problem'
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Bad Science - Part 8
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Bad Science - Part 7
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Bad Science - Part 13
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Chapter 5: The Placebo Effect
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Foreword
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My Placebo programme on BBC Radio 4
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Chapter 7: Dr Gillian McKeith PhD
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Bad Science - Part 12
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Bad Science - Part 14
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Chapter 9: Professor Patrick Holford
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Chapter 12: Why Clever People Believe Stupid Things
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Chapter 10: Is Mainstream Medicine Evil?
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Chapter 11: How the Media Promote the Public Misunderstanding of Science
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Bad Science - Part 10
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Bad Science - Part 11
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Battling Bad Science
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Chapter 13: Bad Stats
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Chapter 14: Health Scares
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