Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
We are obsessed with our health. And yet — from the media's "world-expert microbiologist" with a mail-order Ph.D. in his garden shed laboratory, and via multiple health scares and miracle cures — we are constantly bombarded with inaccurate, contradictory, and sometimes even misleading information. Until now. Ben Goldacre masterfully dismantles the questionable science behind some of the great drug trials, court cases, and missed opportunities of our time, but he also goes further: out of the bullshit, he shows us the fascinating story of how we know what we know, and gives us the tools to uncover bad science for ourselves.
Few words about Dr. Ben Goldacre: He is an award winning writer, broadcaster and medical doctor who specialises in unpicking dodgy scientific claims made by scaremongering journalists, dodgy government reports, evil pharmaceutical corporations PR companies and quacks. He has written the weekly Bad Science column in The Guardian since 2003.
Bad Science (The book) has sold over 240000 copies, and is being published in 18 countries.
Monday, December 6, 2010
Coldplay - Christmas Lights
Nothing gets the Christmas mood, like a beautiful song and a wonderful video for that song. This time Coldplay got the job done although i must admit that i liked the video rather than the song. Not that that the song is bad, but it's just not my type of song. Anyway the video was directed by Mat Whitecross and filmed in London on Thursday November 25th, 2010.
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