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PARMAGEDDON

This is possibly the most boring thing I’ve ever written in the Guardian, but I have been genuinely weirded out by the number of people inviting me to be a naysayer on the aporkalypse. I’m not, it’s a...

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Righteous mischief from Archie Cochrane

Working on an editorial about the importance of evidence based social policy, I re-discovered this moment of genius from Archie Cochrane which I thought I’d share. It’s 1971, he’s part way through a...

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Burn the scientists!

Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 19 June 2010 On the 6th of April 2009, an earthquake registering 5.8 on the richter scale hit the town of L’Aquila in Abruzzo, Italy. This was a tragedy, and...

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Sampling error, the unspoken issue behind small number changes in the news

Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 20 August 2011 What do all these numbers mean? “‘Worrying’ jobless rise needs urgent action – Labour” was the BBC headline. They explained the problem in their own...

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