Ben Goldacre Talks Bad Science - PopTech 2010 [1 of 2]

Author of the Guardian's weekly "Bad Science" column and Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks, British physician Ben Goldacre dismantles the questionable science behind an assortment of drug trials, court cases, and events of our time.

http://poptech.org/popcasts/ben_goldacre_talks_bad_science
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/12/23/some-bad-science-ca...
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/12/23/ben-goldacre-bad-sci.html

http://www.badscience.net/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/series/badscience

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[WhelkDoctor1]

@TheBoredProle Fair comment, I guess.

[TheBoredProle]

@WhelkDoctor1 I've seen you say shit about this guy on a lot of videos... don't you think that's a bit sad too? Not judging or anything... just seems curious.

[WhelkDoctor1]

Spending an evening of ones' precious life sitting in an audience listening to a junior doctors' feeble attempts at humour is, by anyones' standards, pretty sad.

[mykoolaidtastesfunny]

those are videos on youtube

[mykoolaidtastesfunny]

@sumemor All you need to do is google.....AZT LABEL

and your questions will be answered. NOBODY who was prescribed AZT in the early days is alive now. "Long term non-progressors" do NOT take any of the "lifesaving" meds.

If you don't like reading I suggest....THE LIVING PROOF THE LINDSEY NAGEL STORY

AND....Nobel Laureate Montagnier: HIV Can Be Cleared Naturally - House of Numbers

Montagnier won the Nobel Prize for "hiv". He uses fermented papaya juice for his patients.

[mykoolaidtastesfunny]

@sumemor Concorde Coordinating Committee. Concorde: MRC/ANRS randomised double-blind controlled trial of immediate and deferred zidovudine in symptom-free HIV infection. Lancet. 1994 Apr 9; 343(8902): 871–81.

“A total of 172 (96 Imm [Those who Immediately went on AZT at the start of the study], 76 Def [Those who were on placebo until AIDS was diagnosed and then went on AZT]) participants died [169 who had taken some AZT, 3 who had only taken placebo]...

[sumemor]

@mykoolaidtastesfunny and how many people total took AZT and how many people total took the placebo?

Vitamin C doesn't hurt your immune system, but it literally has no effect to help AIDS.

[WhelkDoctor1]

The word "ubertwat" springs to mind.

[mykoolaidtastesfunny]

He's right about placebo effect though. I guess even a chicken hits the target sometimes.

[mykoolaidtastesfunny]

Google.....Scientifically Illiterate Pundit Ben Goldacre

This guy is a joke. Google....AZT LABEL

Vitamin C doesn't come with a skull and crossbones and word TOXIC on the label. Vitamin C also doesn't destroy the source of the immune system....the bone marrow. It also was not added to California's list of known carcinogens.

I can think of one study where 172 people taking the AZT died and only 3 taking placebo.