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Wakefield Acted Against Best Interests Of Children – GMC

by podblack on January 28, 2010

In case you’re not familiar with the story (I guess few readers of this kind of blog wouldn’t have a passing notion of who Andrew Wakefield is) – you might want to recap on the “shoddy, litigation- and profit-driven pseudoscience” of Wakefield, whose now discredited study published in The Lancet in 1998, linked the MMR [...]

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Ben Goldacre – Will Not, Should Not, Be Silenced On Jeni Barnett Of LBC

by podblack on February 6, 2009

Firstly – listen to the latest Skeptic Zone Podcast interview with Dr Ben Goldacre of Bad Science. Then lend a bloggy hand: From the Bad Science Site: ‘Bad Science Bingo‘ and the resulting ‘Haha er “help”. Legal Chill from LBC 97.3 over Jeni Barnett’s MMR scaremongering’: Jeni Barnett is angry at the response to her [...]

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Ben Goldacre For The Win – And You Win With Brain Science!

by podblack on September 15, 2008

Two items of great interest – first, a message from Ben ‘Bad Science’ Goldacre: “Just to let you know, I’ve today emerged rather victoriously from a million dollar libel case with a vitamin quack. He’s helped kill large numbers of people with aids in South Africa (6 million HIV positive) by taking out full page [...]

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