{"id":327,"date":"2019-04-12T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T09:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevenallain.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=327"},"modified":"2021-09-12T17:01:43","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T16:01:43","slug":"steveslibrary-bad-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevenallain.co.uk\/Blog\/steveslibrary-bad-science\/","title":{"rendered":"#StevesLibrary: Bad Science"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It should be stated first that the author Ben Goldacre (who you may recognised from TV, indeed I first saw him on an episode of QI) also has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.badscience.net\/\">website<\/a> and a former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/series\/badscience\">weekly column<\/a> in <em>The Guardian<\/em> of the same name as the title of his book. Bad Science was published in 2008 and despite it being a little outdated by today&#8217;s view, it tackles some of the issues that still plague us today. When I first read the book back in 2016 I instantly recommended it to a number of friends who either bought their own copies or borrowed mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/000728487X\/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=stevenallain-21&amp;creative=6738&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=000728487X&amp;linkId=3ada73970230750e0140cdf5ad1f4f87\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/000728487X\/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=stevenallain-21&amp;creative=6738&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=000728487X&amp;linkId=3ada73970230750e0140cdf5ad1f4f87\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bad Science<\/a>,<\/em> Goldacre drives a stake through the heart of a number of pseudoscientific claims &#8211; which back when the book was written covered a list as long as my arm! It wouldn&#8217;t surprise me if Goldacre is working on a follow-up to further squash quack claim of modern day pseudoscientists much in the way Thunderf00t does on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=568iDYn8pjc&amp;list=PLQJW3WMsx1q0js6FvjO89H62m60SoHdE6\">YouTube channel<\/a>. Such areas covered are the MMR vaccine debate (my personal favourite and one that shouldn&#8217;t even exist), detox diets and other fascicle claims being passed off as science. If you&#8217;re the sort of person with an open mind and a love for stamping out bullshit as if it were flaming zombie spiders, then this is a read for you! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stevenallain.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Bad-Science.jpg?resize=245%2C375&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-328\" width=\"245\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stevenallain.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Bad-Science.jpg?w=326&amp;ssl=1 326w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stevenallain.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Bad-Science.jpg?resize=196%2C300&amp;ssl=1 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It should be stated first that the author Ben Goldacre (who you may recognised from TV, indeed I first saw him on an episode of QI) also has a website and a former weekly column in The Guardian of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[9,13,8,10,58],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-steveslibrary","tag-steveslibrary","tag-book-review","tag-books","tag-popular-science","tag-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stevenallain.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Bad-Science.jpg?fit=326%2C499&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pafnrI-5h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenallain.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenallain.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenallain.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenallain.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenallain.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevenallain.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenallain.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenallain.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenallain.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenallain.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}