I Think You'll Find It's a Bit More Complicated Than That (53 page)

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