Ben Goldacre
Ben Goldacre is the author of the Bad Science column in Saturday's Guardian and of the Bad Science website
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Ben Goldacre: We now know the government's Tamiflu stockpile wouldn't have done us much good in the event of a flu epidemic. But the secrecy surrounding clinical trials means there's a lot we don't know about other medicines we take
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Ben Goldacre: Doctors like me can't give an informed view on the benefits of any treatment, let alone Tamiflu, because drugs firms aren't publishing all the evidence
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Ben Goldacre: Doctors like to think they're above being influenced by the pharmaceutical industry, but the evidence suggests otherwise
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If teachers want politicians to base policy on evidence, they need to accept that randomised trials are the way to show what works, argues Ben Goldacre
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Ben Goldacre: Pulling bad science apart is the best teaching gimmick I know for explaining how good science works
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Ben Goldacre: If you have a serious new claim to make, it should go through scientific publication and peer review before you present it to the media
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Ben Goldacre: All you need is a computer, some volunteers and time on your hands
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Ben Goldacre: Trials show that people who think they've done something healthy, even if they haven't, smoke more and believe they are invulnerable to diseases
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