Ben Goldacre on Bad Science and Andrew Wakefield

Nerd Evangelist Ben Goldacre talks about the MMR hoax and the role of the media in spreading misinformation in an interview with NewScientist.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ht_N7l747Q
http://www.badscience.net/

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Education

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• ben
• goldacre
• mmr
• vaccine
• autism
• measles
• newscientist
• andrew
• wakefield
• joe
• scarborough
• misinformation

[weetofu]

Have you read Callous Disregard Dude???

[ChiefRepublic]

@weetofu Not, yet.

[thegeffc]

love the video man

[msjessypp]

some great inforamtion here thanks

[jjclassjj]

some great inforamtion here thanks

[PiotrThePrimate]

@WhelkDoctor1 What of the UK? You are merely assuming -- without any justification -- that the marketing and sales of thalidomide occurred under the discipline and rigour of EBM. I don't know about the UK but if the drug were released in the UK then clearly it was not done on the basis of a solid evidentiary base concerning its safety because none existed at the time. The entire thalidomide debacle demonstrates what happens when EBM is not practiced.

[WhelkDoctor1]

@PiotrThePrimate ...and in the UK?

[PiotrThePrimate]

@WhelkDoctor1 'Thalidomide was "evidence based"'

Your assertion is ungrammatical but I am guessing that you are trying to assert that the prescription of thalidomide for the treatment of morning sickness is an example of EBM. Actually it isn't. The opposite is true.

In the US, Kelsey denied FDA approval for an application from Richardson-Merrell to market thalidomide on the grounds that further studies were needed. Due to Kelsley, thalidomide was never appoved for sale in the US.

[WhelkDoctor1]

Thalidomide was "evidence based".

[almightyjass]

@sallygo1234 He has. It is a hoax sadly. based purely on coincidence and very transparent one sided research.

[autumnsylver]

@sallygo1234 The first video you linked doesn't say anything about what vaccine is allegedly responsible for the girl's symptoms, when the vaccine was given, when the symptoms showed up, or how it allegedly did this to her. The second video sounds like a conspiracy theory. The third video is by the crackpot conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who I have personally found to be either dishonest or outright lying about the things he claims the government or police are doing. He can't be trusted.