... games ikea furniture shopping)David Nutt: Governments should get real on drugs - opinion - 04 November 2009 - New ScientistDavid Nutt's opinion piece in New Scientist. (tags: drugs science badscience government law medicine politics david-nutt)A life changed by evidenceSeries of videos by a former evangelical Christian explaining why he became an atheist. Well produced and informative stuff. ...

Ben Goldacre, Saturday 7 November 2009, The Guardian Obviously it’s pleasing to see, in the storm of commentary over Professor Nutt’s sacking, that everyone outside of politics now recognises the importance of scientific evidence in devising laws. But a strange reasoning twitch has appeared, in the arguments of politicians and right wing commentators. Science can tell

From badscience - Steve Fuller lent a fig-leaf of academic credibility to Intelligent Design in the Dover trial in the USA. Norman Levitt died recently which Steve Fuller used as the occasion to write a rather nasty ad hominem attack on Levitt. Here is the explanation for Fuller feeling the need to write such a worthless screed: Levitt’s scathing review of Steve Fuller’s book defending ...

... like to say that I want to make passionate, geeky love with Ben Goldacre's big squishy brain. I first came across Goldacre through his Guardian column Bad Science and website badscience.net. Goldacre did the entire world a service by doing the painstaking but ultimately rewarding work of exposing Gillian McKeith as the fraudulent scold that she is. I am almost finished his first book and ...