I Think You'll Find It's a Bit More Complicated Than That (56 page)

Aidstruth.org 139

al-Jabiri, Major General Jehad 274–5

alcohol: intravenous use of 233; lung cancer and 108–9; rape and consumption of 329, 330

ALLHAT trial 119

Alzheimer’s, smoking and 20–1

American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 325

American Association on Mental Retardation 325

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
344

American Medical Association 262

American Psychological Association 325

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association 325

anecdotes, illustrating data with 8, 118–22, 189, 248–9, 293

animal experiments 136–8

Annals of Internal Medicine
358

Annals of Thoracic Surgery
134

anti-depressants 18; recession linked to rise in prescriptions for xviii, 104–7; SSRI 18, 105

antiretroviral medications 140, 185, 281, 284, 285

aortic aneurysm repair, mortality rates in hospital after/during 18–20, 114

APGaylard 252

Appleby, John 19, 173

artificial intelligence xxii, 394–5

Asch, Solomon 15, 16

Asphalia 365

Associated Press 316

Astel, Professor Karl 22

ATSC 273

autism: educational interventions in 325; internet use and 3; MMR and 145, 347–55, 356–8

Autism Research Centre, Cambridge 348, 354

Bad Science
(Goldacre) xvi, 104, 110
n
, 257, 346

Bad Science column
see Guardian

Ballas, Dr Dimitris 58

Barasi, Leo 96

Barden, Paul 101–4

Barnardo’s 394

Baron-Cohen, Professor Simon 349–51, 353–4

Batarim 305–6

BBC xxi; ‘bioresonance’ story and 277–8; Britain’s happiest places story and 56, 57; causes of avoidable death, overall coverage of 20; Down’s syndrome births increase story and 61–2; ‘EDF Survey Shows Support for Hinkley Power Station’ story and 95–6; psychological nature of libido problems story and 37; radiation from wi-fi networks story and 289–91, 293; recession and anti-depressant link, reports 105; Reform: The Value of Mathematics’ story and 196; ‘Threefold variation’ in UK bowel cancer rates’ story and 101–4; Wightman and 393, 394; ‘“Worrying’’ Jobless Rise Needs Urgent Action – Labour’ story and 59

Beating Bowel Cancer 101, 104

Becker muscular dystrophy 121

Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI) 45

Benedict XVI, Pope 183, 184

Benford’s law 54–6

bicycle helmets, the law and 110–13

big data xvii, xviii, 71–86; access to government data 75–7; care.data and risk of sharing medical records 77–86; magical way that patterns emerge from data 73–5

Big Pharma xvii, 324, 401

bin Laden, Osama 357

biologising xvii, 35–46; biological causes for psychological or behavioural conditions 40–2; brain imaging, reality of phenomena and 37–9; girls’ love of pink, evolution and 42–6

Biologist
6

BioSTAR 248

birth rate, UK 49–50

Bishop, Professor Dorothy 3, 6

bladder cancer 24–5, 342

Blair, Tony 357

Blakemore, Colin 138

blame, mistakes in medicine and 267–70

blind auditions, orchestras and xxi, 309–11

blinding, randomised testing and xviii, 12, 118, 124, 126, 133, 137–8, 292–3, 345

blood tests 117, 119–20, 282

blood-pressure drugs 119–20

Blundell, Professor John 337

BMA 112

Booth, Patricia 265

Boston Globe
39

bowel cancer 101–4

Boynton, Dr Petra 252

Brain Committee 230–1

Brain Gym 10–12

Brainiac
:
faking of science on xxii, 371–5

brain-imaging studies, positive findings in 131–4

breast cancer: abortion and 200–1; diet and 338–40; red wine and 267, 269; screening 113, 114, 115

breast enhancement cream xx, 254–7

Breuning, Stephen 135–6

The British Association for Applied Nutrition and Nutritional Therapy (BANT) 268–9

British Association of Nutritional Therapists 270

British Chiropractic Association (BCA) 250–4

British Dental Association 24

British Household Panel Survey 57

British Journal of Cancer
: ‘What if Cancer Survival in Britain were the Same as in Europe: How Many Deaths are Avoidable?’ 169–70

British Journal of General Practice
105–6

British Journal of Psychology
305

British Medical Association 251

British Medical Journal
(
BMJ
):
Bicycle Helmets and the Law (Goldacre/Spiegelhalter editorial) 110–13, 110
n
; criticism of medical practice within 251;
‘Explaining the rise in antidepressant prescribing’, 2009 paper 105, 106; hospital waiting times stories and 73; ‘IVF children have bigger vocabulary than unplanned children’ story and 109
;
MMR: The Scare Stories are Back. Goldacre article. 18th July, 2007 347–55;
‘
more research is needed’ phrase banned by 4;
studies of how ideas spread and myths grow 26; systematic review of effect of large multi-sports events on population 173, summaries of important new research from around the world 214;
Why Don’t Journalists Mention the Data?
Goldacre article, 16th June, 2007 292–4

British Psychological Society 329, 331

British Social Attitudes Survey 170

Bromley Times
57

Brooks, Tom 67, 68, 69

Building Evidence into Education. (Goldacre report for UK education minister) 202–18

Bundesbank 56

Burstow, Paul 174–6

Bush, George W. 13, 185, 298, 316

Cabinet Office White Paper on using randomised controlled trials to improve government policy, 2011 202
n

Cambridge Film Festival 281, 283

Cambridge University 102, 226, 352, 355

Cameron, David 173

Campbell, Denis 343, 344, 346, 347–55

cancer: bladder cancer and fluoride 24–5; bladder cancer and swimming in chlorinated water 342; bowel cancer rates, UK 101–4; brain cancer and mobile phones 116–18; breast cancer and abortion 200–1; breast cancer and diet 338–40; breast cancer and red wine 269; breast cancer screening 114–15; care.data and 78, 83; cervical cancer jab 331–4; using Facebook and 221; herbal medicine and 265, 267; lung cancer and alcohol 107–9; prostate cancer 144; smoking and 3, 22, 319; trials published, only one in four 146; UK survival rates 169–71, 173; urinary tract 265; vaccination and 267, 331–4

Cancer Research UK 339

capital punishment, murder rates and 311–12

Cardiff University 29–31, 40

CardioSEAL 248

care.data 77–86

Cataldo, Janine 20–1

Caterson, Professor 30, 31

Catholic Church, condoms and xx, 183–5, 186

caveats in newspaper articles 338–40

Cellarnot 123

censorship, Brain Gym and 10–12

Central TV 269, 270

Cervarix 332, 333

cervical cancer 332–4

chance, certainty of 56–8

Channel 4 News 118, 121, 197, 251

Charlton, Bruce 140–1, 145

chatnannies.com 393, 395

cherry-picking scientific literature xvii, 5–8, 12, 174, 176–7, 192, 193, 252, 336, 349, 355

Chief Medical Officer for Wales 12

child abuse xix, 157–9, 391–5

children, critiques of adult pseudoscience by 10–12

Chimoio, Archbishop Francisco 183–4

China: girls’ love of pink and 44–5

Chinese traditional medicine xix, 265–7, 388

chlorthalidone 119–20

cholera, Soho outbreak, 1854 365

Christian Medical Fellowship 197

Church, Dr Timothy 336–7

CIA 357

cigarette packaging xxi, 318–21

Cirak, Sebahattin 121

Circulation
248

‘citation classics’ 9–10, 102–3, 173

Citation, network of 26–7

ClimateSock 96

Clinical Trials Units 217

clustered water 388–9

clusters on maps 364–6

coalition government, UK, 2010–14: drugs addicts and sentencing policy 177–9; NHS reform 73, 169–77; ‘Programme for Government’ 177

Cochrane, Archie 209–10, 211, 218, 252, 297–300

Cochrane Group 298

Cochrane Library 298, 300, 336

cod liver oil 29–31

Coe, Robert 189

coffee, hallucinatory effects of 64–6

Coghill, Dr Roger 363–7

College of Natural Nutrition 268, 270

Colquhoun, Professor David 252, 266

Coma Science Group, Belgium 326

comas, communication in xxi, 324–6

Commonwealth Games, 2022 156

Complementary and Alternative Therapy
magazine 278

Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council, the (CNHC) 266

computer games, dementia and 3–5

condoms, Catholic Church and xx, 183–5, 186

conference papers 193

conflict-of-interest stories 402

conformity, studies on 15–17

confounding variables xviii, 107–9, 111

Congolese Bishops’ Conference 183

Conservative Party 150, 180, 201