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Bad Science Run by Ben Goldacre of the Guardian, who is the Daddy when it comes to fighting pseudoscience. If knowledgeable, well-researched and well-written exposés of bad science are your thing, this is where to find them. Popular topics include MMR, homeopathy, nutritionists and education. |
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The Quackometer Andy Lewis has written a clever piece of code that allows you to gauge how dodgy a particular website or pundit is: the Quackometer. In a wonderful play on words, sites are rated in “canards”. He also writes an influential blog, taking on such luminaries as Patrick Holford and the Society of Homeopaths. |
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DC’s Improbable Science No list would be complete without mention of the venerable David Colquhoun. Previously chair of the Department of Pharmacology at UCL, Fellow of the Royal Society and tireless opponent of woolly thinking. Rarely one to allow social niceties ruin a good verbal assault. |
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Science and Process Advertised as “a scientist away from the bench”, author Coracle turns a cool analytical eye on the murky world of bad science. Expect charts, graphs, and unrivalled eloquence as we’re shown how the numbers add up (or more often, how they don’t). |
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Gimpy’s Blog A nascent blogger making an impact on the bad science scene, gimpy is proving they can be a thorn in pseudoscientists’ collective side. Go here for simple and effective harrying of homeopaths, dyslexia quacks and more. |
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ScienceBlogs A whole sphere of blogs, this is home to the award-winning Pharyngula and highly-celebrated Retrospectacle. More science than you can shake a slide rule at. |
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