Read I Think You'll Find It's a Bit More Complicated Than That Online
Authors: Ben Goldacre
perfect vehicle
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http://www.springerlink.com/content/r13q87565w885u07/?p=56e7d0716ac94f00981ab7681baebb59&pi=17
in four countries
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http://davidhammond.ca/Old Website/Publication new/ITC Light Mild%28Tob Control 2008%29.pdf
street-interception survey
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http://davidhammond.ca/Old Website/Publication new/Cigarette Pack Design%28JPH 2009%29.pdf
tobacco companies know this
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http://davidhammond.ca/Old%20Website/Publication%20new/2010%20Malrbor%20Alchemy%20TC%20%28Thrasher%20et%20al%29.pdf
Marketing New Products
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http://www.pmdocs.com/getallimg.asp?if=avpidx&DOCID=2044762173/2364
‘brand imagery’ studies
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http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/mdb51f00
six hundred adolescents
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1529094
All Bow Before the Mighty Power of the Nocebo Effect
All Bow Before
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http://www.badscience.net/2009/11/all-bow-before-the-mighty-power-of-the-nocebo-effect/
looked into the evidence
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http://www.badscience.net/2009/11/parliamentary-science-and-technology-select-committee-on-homeopathy-today/
Pain
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http://www.painjournalonline.com/article/S0304-3959%2809%2900399-6/abstract
study in 2006
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http://www.psychosomaticmedicine.org/cgi/content/abstract/68/3/478
paper in 2004
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15301298
paper from 1987
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3621780?dopt=Abstract
systematic review
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1475-4916(03)00007-9
So Brilliantly You’ve Presented a Really Transgressive Case Through the Mainstream Media
So Brilliantly
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http://www.badscience.net/2009/12/so-brillliantly-youve-presented-a-really-transgressive-case-through-the-mainstream-media/
Sun
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http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2743062/23-year-nightmare-of-Rom-Houben-wrongly-diagnosed-as-comatose.html
BBC
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8375326.stm
Guardian
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http://browse.guardian.co.uk/search?search=rom+houben&sitesearch-radio=guardian&go-guardian=Search
Telegraph
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/lizhunt/6649381/Rom-Houben-and-the-human-spirit-that-would-not-be-denied.html
Der Spiegel
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http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/0,1518,662625,00.html
Australian TV news
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http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/975121/belgian-coma-man-was-just-awake-for-23-years
author of the communication
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http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/research/data/uploadfiles/RR77.pdf
more recent studies
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http://kslinker.com/facilitated-communicaton-since-1995.pdf
National Autistic Society says
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http://www.nas.org.uk/nas/jsp/polopoly.jsp?a=3285&d=1384
position paper on FC
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http://www.apa.org/about/division/cpmscientific.html
encourage you to do so
: qurl.com/coma
This was barely reported
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http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2010/02/bookwriting_man_in_coma_flunks.html
BAD JOURNALISM
Asking for It
Asking for It
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http://www.badscience.net/2009/07/asking-for-it/
Women who dress provocatively
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http://current.com/items/90259840_women-who-dress-provocatively-more-likely-to-be-raped-claim-scientists.htm
Promiscuous men more likely
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http://www2.le.ac.uk/ebulletin/news/press-releases/2000-2009/2009/06/nparticle.2009-06-23.2976340719
blame on women
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http://psychcentral.com/news/2009/06/25/men-blame-rape-victims-more-than-women/6736.html
Jab ‘as Deadly as the Cancer’
Jab ‘as Deadly’
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http://www.badscience.net/2009/10/jabs-as-bad-as-the-cancer/
debate at Royal Institution
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http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/webcast.html
‘as deadly as the cancer’
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http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:ckeH3LgaZO4J:www.express.co.uk/posts/view/131817/Jab-as-deadly-as-the-cancer-
previous work includes
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http://www.journalisted.com/lucy-johnston
Doctor’s MMR fears
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http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/112286/Doctor-s-MMR-fears
‘Linked to Phone Masts’
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http://www.badscience.net/category/roger-coghill/
published a long time ago
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19501728
disappeared from
Express
website
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http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/131817/Jab-as-deadly-as-the-cancer-
Health Warning: Exercise Makes You Fat
Health Warning
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http://www.badscience.net/2009/08/health-warning-exercise-makes-you-fat/
forty-three trials
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http://mrw.interscience.wiley.com/cochrane/clsysrev/articles/CD003817/frame.html
exercise for weight loss
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http://mrw.interscience.wiley.com/cochrane/clsysrev/articles/CD003817/frame.html
The Caveat in Paragraph Number 19
The Caveat
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http://www.badscience.net/2010/10/the-caveat-in-paragraph-number-19/
Oncological Ontology Project
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http://thedailymailoncologicalontol ogyproject.wordpress.com/
Kill Or Cure
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http://kill-or-cure.heroku.com/
40 per cent
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1317856/Strict-diet-days-week-cuts-risk-breast-cancer-40-cent.html
the academic paper
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20921964
look at the penis
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http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/070312ruel/
early study in 1990
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http://eyetrack.poynter.org/previous.html
most recent project
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http://eyetrack.poynter.org/keys_01.html
Why Don’t Journalists Link to Primary Sources
Why Don’t Journalists
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http://www.badscience.net/2011/03/why-dont-journalists-link-to-primary-sources/
Wind farms blamed
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http://bengoldacre.posterous.com/how-far-will-the-daily-telegraph-distort-a-st
open-access academic paper
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http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0017009
end of the press release
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https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/news/archive/2011/Title,65795,en.html
now deleted
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/windpower/8382476/Wind-farms-blamed-for-stranding-of-whales.html
miserly correction
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/wind power/8388273/Correction-whales-and-wind-farms.html
secret to shapely legs
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http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/news-features/TMG8296453/Why-stilettos-are-the-secret-to-shapely-legs.html
shapelier legs than flats
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1352831/Victoria-Beckham-Stilettos-women-shapelier-legs-flats.html
Stilettos tone up
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http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/226658/Stilettos-tone-up-your-legs/Stilettos-tone-up-your-legs
read even the press release
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http://www.hmc.edu/newsandevents/ahn-examines-the-human-leg.html
Daily Mail
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http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2011/03/17/no-need-to-worry-about-having-a-shower-or-drinking-water/
read the original paper
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http://www.ehjournal.net/content/pdf/1476-069X-10-18.pdf
or even the press release
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http://www.creal.cat/en_noticies/view.php?ID=85
simple distortion
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http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2011/03/17/no-need-to-worry-about-having-a-shower-or-drinking-water/
A Fishy Friend, and His Friends
A Fishy Friend
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http://www.badscience.net/2010/06/the-return-of-a-2bn-fishy-friend/
Fish oil helps
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/may/30/fish-oil-supplement-concentration
omega-3 fish oil pill
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http://www.badscience.net/category/fish-oil/
Denis Campbell
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http://www.badscience.net/2007/07/british-medical-journal-mmr-the-scare-stories-are-back/
was indeed the paper
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http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/91/4/1060
published in full this year
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2010.01.014
estimates global sales
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http://www.nutraingredients-usa.com/Consumer-Trends/Markets-Leaders-in-global-brain-food-sales
reproduced below in full
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http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/jeremy-laurance-dr-goldacre-doesnt-make-everything-better-1994017.html
MMR: The Scare Stories Are Back
MMR
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http://www.badscience.net/2007/07/british-medical-journal-mmr-the-scare-stories-are-back/
Prevention Is Better Than Cure When It Comes to Health Scares
suspected death
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-22385218
vaccine caused autism
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http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/vaccinations/Pages/mmr-vaccine.aspx
dozens of vaccine scares
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0f90ac7a-a67c-11e2-885b-00144feabdc0.html
Antivaccination campaigners
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/a2f9f1a6-50e3-11e0-8931-00144feab49a.html
part of a plot
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2a9e6704-b0d2-11e2-9f24-00144feabdc0.html
Dodgy Academic PR
Dodgy Academic PR
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http://www.badscience.net/2009/05/dodgy-academic-pr/
Annals of Internal Medicine
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http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/abstract/150/9/613
Suicide
Suicide
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http://www.badscience.net/2009/03/suicide/
it has been shown
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11630757
repeatedly
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0049-089X%2891%2990016-V
increased by 17 per cent
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http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/318/7189/972?view=long &pmid=10195966
a significant decrease
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http://www.springerlink.com/content/98rw3lycjnkgg9a3/
Roger Coghill and the Aids Test
Roger Coghill
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http://www.badscience.net/2008/06/roger-coghill-fails-the-aids-test/
linked to phone masts
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http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/49330/Suicides-linked-to-phone-masts-
evidence of a possible link
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http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/healthy living/cancercontroversies/howdoweknow/
Broad Street pump
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Snow_(physician)
a ‘stakeholder’ group
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http://www.rkpartnership.co.uk/sage/
specialises in mediation
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http://www.rkpartnership.co.uk/whatwedo.php
their last document
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http://www.rkpartnership.co.uk/sage/Public/SAGE first interim assessment.pdf
angel investment
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http://www.walesonline.co.uk/business-in-wales/business-news/2008/02/02/business-angel-supplements-for-launch-91466-20426842/
‘Asphalia’
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http://www.asphalia.co.uk/
visited his website
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http://www.galonja.co.uk/
protection equipment
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http://www.galonja.co.uk/galonja_shop/product.asp?g_s_n=crlshop&g_u_no=0&g_u_nam=&g_tim=&pid=88&v_det=1&full=1&c_id=0
Acousticom
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http://www.galonja.co.uk/galonja_shop/product.asp?g_s_n=crlshop&g_u_no=0&g_u_nam=&g_tim=&pid=104&v_det=1&full=1&c_id=0
makes wine taste nicer
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http://www.galonja.co.uk/galonja_shop/product.asp?g_s_n=crlshop&g_u_no=0&g_u_nam=&g_tim=&pid=98&v_det=1&full=1&c_id=0