Bad Science with Ben Goldacre
I went to this on Saturday 28th Feb -- very good
Ben Goldacre is a writer, broadcaster and medical doctor from the UK who writes the hard hitting 'Bad Science' column for The Guardian newspaper. This talk exposed the claims of scaremongering journalists, highlight quack health products, get behind the facade of pseudoscientific cosmetics adverts, and laid bare the evil of multinational pharmaceutical corporations, as well as focusing on wider themes such as the medicalisation of everyday life and the psychology of irrational beliefs.
It also promoted his book -- when I got it to sign it, he wrote "pass this on someone who really needs it" or , in fact, "give this book to someone who disagrees with you."
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