Every day there are news reports of new health advice, but how can you know if they're right? Doctor and epidemiologist Ben Goldacre shows us, at high speed, the ways evidence can be distorted, from the blindingly obvious nutrition claims to the very subtle tricks of the pharmaceutical industry.
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Ben Goldacre, of the Bad Science weblog, has had a lawsuit hanging over his head for the past year.
While Ben Goldacre was writing his book, Bad Science, he was also being sued by the crank, Matthias Rath…which meant he was under a lawyer-mandated gag order and couldn't include his debunking of Rath in the book.
The reliably poignant Ben Goldacre explores the declining signal-to-noise ratio in the scientific press through a recent paper that tentatively suggests ejaculation could be "a potential treatment of nasal congestio
The Ted video Ben did on this is worth watching.
Ha! Never mind, the video wasn't showing when I first looked!