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Sep. 1st, 2008 07:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sebastienneProbably all those of you who would be interested know already, but nevertheless I felt I had to pimp Ben Goldacre. He's saying stuff about science and the meeja that should be bloody obvious; but really, to so many people, often isn't. (And I realise that it's my science-education-from-Forest-and-Oxford privilege that's allowing me to say that it's obvious. I think that everyone should have the kind of education that allows them to evaluate media-science claims for the bollocks they so often are. But they don't. And it's certainly not the fault of the individual that this stuff is so compelling, to so many people. But it is, nevertheless, bollocks.)
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Date: 2008-09-01 10:48 am (UTC)Another magic pill for a delectation and delight. You're right it is compelling and so much less hassle to sort out then a good parenting support policy or making it easier for people to exercise.
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Date: 2008-09-01 11:43 am (UTC)Ben popped up on the BBC's "Breakfast" TV prog the other day, trashing the "science" behind the government's determination to tell us what we should eat, and so-called "superfoods" and "anti-oxidants".
He's rather cute, actually.
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Date: 2008-09-01 12:42 pm (UTC)Ooh, curls!
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Date: 2008-09-01 12:59 pm (UTC)I am so glad I am not the only person who thinks this.
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Date: 2008-09-01 02:56 pm (UTC)He had an affair with my auntie...
I don't see the appeal in ben goldacre or dawkins, mind you I'm finding all men incredibly unattractive at moment.
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Date: 2008-09-01 08:43 pm (UTC)