After 8 years of Bad Science in The Guardian, Ben Goldacre taking 6 month break

[Copepod]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/nov/04/bad-science-eight-years

In this column, Ben Goldacre reflects on that he'd learned writing eight years of Bad Science columns.

His columns are always full of valuable information, particularly about health / medicine / medical trials / statistics etc. He's taking six months off to finish a book, but can be found at http://www.badscience.net/ in the meantime.

 

[Robster65]

He was on QI on Friday night. He's not the most natural TV personality but you have to respect the work he's done to uncover quack medicine and false claims.🙂

Rob

 

[Copepod]

Also saw him on QI - I'll use his hairstyle as justification when my mum tells me to comb my hair, which she still tries!

He may not be a natural to TV in general, but his knowledge and manner was perfect for QI, particularly with "Illness" as the topic.

 

[Robster65]

Also saw him on QI - I'll use his hairstyle as justification when my mum tells me to comb my hair, which she still tries!

He may not be a natural to TV in general, but his knowledge and manner was perfect for QI, particularly with "Illness" as the topic.

I did suspect he was chosen deliberately for that episode. The topics were suspiciously similar to his favourite sceptic specialties.

He's a guru to a whole community of online 'skeptics' who labour to blow apart the false claims of the bad science, medicine, etc movements. Lots of money being made on the back of vulnerability and good to see it challenged.

Rob

 

[trophywench]

Oh - thank you for explaining that! I missed the introductions and didn't know who he was!