And then there's UK Labour: after the success of a pilot program for an effective, safe privacy-preserving way of analyzing NHS records for research, they commissioned the Goldacre Report on making this permanent:
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November 2, 2026 at 8:32 AM
And then there's UK Labour: after the success of a pilot program for an effective, safe privacy-preserving way of analyzing NHS records for research, they commissioned the Goldacre Report on making this permanent:
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Every time a journalist posts a bad take about how any one individual piece is defensible I want to sit them down and require them to watch this on loop until they understand what publication bias is.
October 31, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Every time a journalist posts a bad take about how any one individual piece is defensible I want to sit them down and require them to watch this on loop until they understand what publication bias is.
Ideelt sett bør effekten av endring av regulering av rusmidler evalueres gjennom randomiserte forsøk (RCTer). www.gov.uk/government/p... Men i fraværet av RCTer er gode observasjonelle studier det beste vi har. Ønsker vi en kunnskapsbasert politikk må vi forholde oss til hva disse viser.
Test, Learn, Adapt: Developing Public Policy with Randomised Controlled Trials
Test, Learn, Adapt is a paper which the Behavioural Insights Team is publishing in collaboration with Ben Goldacre and David Torgerson.
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November 5, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Ideelt sett bør effekten av endring av regulering av rusmidler evalueres gjennom randomiserte forsøk (RCTer). www.gov.uk/government/p... Men i fraværet av RCTer er gode observasjonelle studier det beste vi har. Ønsker vi en kunnskapsbasert politikk må vi forholde oss til hva disse viser.
The same Gillian McKeith who got her "doctorate" in the post.
Ben Goldacre got one for his dead cat to prove the point.
Ben Goldacre got one for his dead cat to prove the point.
October 30, 2026 at 6:23 PM
The same Gillian McKeith who got her "doctorate" in the post.
Ben Goldacre got one for his dead cat to prove the point.
Ben Goldacre got one for his dead cat to prove the point.
She once threw a strop at Goldacre on Twitter, making libellous comments about him. When challenged she pretended that it wasn't her account, then he pointed out her official site linked to the account. Said links abruptly vanished, but were actually only hidden, still appearing in the source code.
October 30, 2026 at 7:16 PM
She once threw a strop at Goldacre on Twitter, making libellous comments about him. When challenged she pretended that it wasn't her account, then he pointed out her official site linked to the account. Said links abruptly vanished, but were actually only hidden, still appearing in the source code.
Ben Goldacre has an email signature in the style of those bogus NDA email signatures saying he'll ignore any bogus agreements in email signatures
October 29, 2026 at 11:13 AM
Ben Goldacre has an email signature in the style of those bogus NDA email signatures saying he'll ignore any bogus agreements in email signatures
🎤 Final call for bookings! Closing 1st November!
Hear from Prof Ben Goldacre, Brian McKenna, Prof Tony Avery, Alan Hassey and other leading voices in primary care informatics, AI and data.
📅 12-13 Nov | Oxford
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#PrimaryCare #HealthData #AI
Hear from Prof Ben Goldacre, Brian McKenna, Prof Tony Avery, Alan Hassey and other leading voices in primary care informatics, AI and data.
📅 12-13 Nov | Oxford
🎟️ tinyurl.com/PHCSG2026
#PrimaryCare #HealthData #AI
45th Annual Conference, Education Day & AGM 2026
The BCS Primary Health Care Specialist Group (PHCSG) is holding its 45th Annual Conference at the voco Oxford Thames hotel, near Oxford.
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October 29, 2026 at 10:21 AM
🎤 Final call for bookings! Closing 1st November!
Hear from Prof Ben Goldacre, Brian McKenna, Prof Tony Avery, Alan Hassey and other leading voices in primary care informatics, AI and data.
📅 12-13 Nov | Oxford
🎟️ tinyurl.com/PHCSG2026
#PrimaryCare #HealthData #AI
Hear from Prof Ben Goldacre, Brian McKenna, Prof Tony Avery, Alan Hassey and other leading voices in primary care informatics, AI and data.
📅 12-13 Nov | Oxford
🎟️ tinyurl.com/PHCSG2026
#PrimaryCare #HealthData #AI
Ben Goldacre (link to BMJ in the text) www.badscience.net/2013/12/bicy...
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October 21, 2026 at 8:57 AM
Ben Goldacre (link to BMJ in the text) www.badscience.net/2013/12/bicy...
I'm 0% through this book and think you might like it - "Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients" by Goldacre, Ben.
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October 17, 2026 at 10:48 PM
I'm 0% through this book and think you might like it - "Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients" by Goldacre, Ben.
Having just tried searching for the book in our library it’s Goldacre not Goldachre. I’m looking forward to reading it!
October 13, 2026 at 1:03 PM
Having just tried searching for the book in our library it’s Goldacre not Goldachre. I’m looking forward to reading it!
Found it!
It was on TwitterX, a post from Ben Goldacre. ☺️👍
It was on TwitterX, a post from Ben Goldacre. ☺️👍
October 13, 2026 at 1:03 PM
Found it!
It was on TwitterX, a post from Ben Goldacre. ☺️👍
It was on TwitterX, a post from Ben Goldacre. ☺️👍
Ben Goldacre wrote the book (and had it on a t-shirt)
September 25, 2026 at 7:04 AM
Ben Goldacre wrote the book (and had it on a t-shirt)
Ben Goldacre took a hammer to the vit D for cognitive performance a long time ago.
A few thoughts:
1. It depends what outcome you're interested in;
2. People might see evidence for one outcome and infer that supplements are evidence based for other outcomes;
A few thoughts:
1. It depends what outcome you're interested in;
2. People might see evidence for one outcome and infer that supplements are evidence based for other outcomes;
September 23, 2026 at 9:14 AM
Ben Goldacre took a hammer to the vit D for cognitive performance a long time ago.
A few thoughts:
1. It depends what outcome you're interested in;
2. People might see evidence for one outcome and infer that supplements are evidence based for other outcomes;
A few thoughts:
1. It depends what outcome you're interested in;
2. People might see evidence for one outcome and infer that supplements are evidence based for other outcomes;
I was reading “Bad Science” by Ben Goldacre and I had to stop reading the chapter on HIV in South Africa because it was so upsetting. I hadn’t realised how much of the AIDS crisis there was fuelled by misinformation. I was glad that Mandela & Tutu both spoke out against Mbeki on that issue.
September 21, 2026 at 6:59 PM
I was reading “Bad Science” by Ben Goldacre and I had to stop reading the chapter on HIV in South Africa because it was so upsetting. I hadn’t realised how much of the AIDS crisis there was fuelled by misinformation. I was glad that Mandela & Tutu both spoke out against Mbeki on that issue.
🚨 Our speaker line-up is shaping up to be something special!
Hear from Prof. Ben Goldacre, Brian MacKenna, Dr Anne-Marie Cunningham, Prof. Tony Avery, Prof. Simon de Lusignan & Dr Neil Paul at the BCS PHCSG Annual Conference & Education Day 2026.
12-13 November - Oxford
🎟️ tinyurl.com/PHCSGConf26
Hear from Prof. Ben Goldacre, Brian MacKenna, Dr Anne-Marie Cunningham, Prof. Tony Avery, Prof. Simon de Lusignan & Dr Neil Paul at the BCS PHCSG Annual Conference & Education Day 2026.
12-13 November - Oxford
🎟️ tinyurl.com/PHCSGConf26
45th Annual Conference, Education Day & AGM 2026
The BCS Primary Health Care Specialist Group (PHCSG) is holding its 45th Annual Conference at the voco Oxford Thames hotel, near Oxford. Join us on Thursday 12 November-Friday 13 November 2026 from 9:...
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September 15, 2026 at 5:41 PM
🚨 Our speaker line-up is shaping up to be something special!
Hear from Prof. Ben Goldacre, Brian MacKenna, Dr Anne-Marie Cunningham, Prof. Tony Avery, Prof. Simon de Lusignan & Dr Neil Paul at the BCS PHCSG Annual Conference & Education Day 2026.
12-13 November - Oxford
🎟️ tinyurl.com/PHCSGConf26
Hear from Prof. Ben Goldacre, Brian MacKenna, Dr Anne-Marie Cunningham, Prof. Tony Avery, Prof. Simon de Lusignan & Dr Neil Paul at the BCS PHCSG Annual Conference & Education Day 2026.
12-13 November - Oxford
🎟️ tinyurl.com/PHCSGConf26
The great Ben Goldacre once said that whenever anyone says ‘Why don’t you just…’ the answer is inevitably‘It’s a bit more complicated than that’
It’s an inevitable tell of someone who doesn’t understand the detail
It’s an inevitable tell of someone who doesn’t understand the detail
September 12, 2026 at 1:11 PM
The great Ben Goldacre once said that whenever anyone says ‘Why don’t you just…’ the answer is inevitably‘It’s a bit more complicated than that’
It’s an inevitable tell of someone who doesn’t understand the detail
It’s an inevitable tell of someone who doesn’t understand the detail
I’ve actually been thinking about @bengoldacre.bsky.social’s book a lot lately when talking to people about all sorts of stuff. And really considering investing in a T-shirt or wall paper with this on the front and the words “Mixed Results” on the back.
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September 9, 2026 at 1:17 AM
I’ve actually been thinking about @bengoldacre.bsky.social’s book a lot lately when talking to people about all sorts of stuff. And really considering investing in a T-shirt or wall paper with this on the front and the words “Mixed Results” on the back.
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Goldacre is a medical doctor, but the classroom is not the doctor's office! Learners are not ill! It's a dumb paradigm.
August 27, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Goldacre is a medical doctor, but the classroom is not the doctor's office! Learners are not ill! It's a dumb paradigm.
In #ResearchEd's founding document, Building Evidence into Education, Ben Goldachre refers to 'patient(s)' and 'outcome(s)' a dozen times while 'rights', 'consent', 'assent', 'refuse', 'opt in/out', and 'autonomy' do not appear a single time.
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Building Evidence into Education
Dr Ben Goldacre today set out how teachers in England have the chance to make teaching a truly evidence-based profession.
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August 27, 2026 at 1:54 PM
In #ResearchEd's founding document, Building Evidence into Education, Ben Goldachre refers to 'patient(s)' and 'outcome(s)' a dozen times while 'rights', 'consent', 'assent', 'refuse', 'opt in/out', and 'autonomy' do not appear a single time.
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Not sure it was ever a scientific paper but Benjamin Spock recommending that babies sleep on their stomachs. Ben Goldacre has a few eg the Scare Straight programme and pre-natal corticosteroids
August 25, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Not sure it was ever a scientific paper but Benjamin Spock recommending that babies sleep on their stomachs. Ben Goldacre has a few eg the Scare Straight programme and pre-natal corticosteroids
Not for nothing I have been a Tamiflu-hater (but have been compelled to prescribe it quite a lot) since at least 2014 when Ben Goldacre wrote a big piece in the Guardian about Roche's data hiding and chicanery and was massively enriched by the whole sordid thing
August 22, 2026 at 2:18 AM
Not for nothing I have been a Tamiflu-hater (but have been compelled to prescribe it quite a lot) since at least 2014 when Ben Goldacre wrote a big piece in the Guardian about Roche's data hiding and chicanery and was massively enriched by the whole sordid thing
Yeah, sure, Goldacre and Spiegelhalter are just two dudes. Below is a photo of the two of them, pictured with the editor of the BMJ.
Using weak data with flawed controls is still flawed, even if you replicate the process again and again.
Using weak data with flawed controls is still flawed, even if you replicate the process again and again.
August 19, 2026 at 10:17 AM
Yeah, sure, Goldacre and Spiegelhalter are just two dudes. Below is a photo of the two of them, pictured with the editor of the BMJ.
Using weak data with flawed controls is still flawed, even if you replicate the process again and again.
Using weak data with flawed controls is still flawed, even if you replicate the process again and again.