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- Bad Science at Brighton Scienc...
Sallis Benney Theatre
Saturday, February 28 at 10:00am - LSE talk
LSE, Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Acad...
Wednesday, January 28 at 6:30pm - "Weird Science"
Conway Hall
Saturday, January 17 at 10:30am - Ben and others all over the place
The Bloomsbury Theatre
Thursday, December 18 at 7:30pm - UCL talk/lecture
Christopher Ingold Building
Tuesday, November 25 at 5:15am - APRIL conference
Friends House
Thursday, November 6 at 8:30am - Ben at Wanstead library
Wanstead Library
Thursday, October 30 at 7:00pm - Ben Goldacre in Cambridge 21st...
Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museum...
Tuesday, October 21 at 5:30pm - Ben Goldacre in Oxford
Oxford Martin Wood Lecture Theatre...
Friday, October 17 at 6:30pm - Ben at Southbank Centre
Blue Room, Spirit Level - Soutbank ...
Wednesday, September 24 at 7:45pm
Simplaris Blogcast
Bad Science: Ben Goldacre's Bad Science column from the Guardian and more...
5:57am July 4th, 2009Asking for it
Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 4 July 2009 There’s nothing like science for giving that obje...
4:44am July 1st, 2009Steve Connor is an angry man
We’re having a meeting in a pub tonight, it’s free to get in and open to all, we’ll talk about...
6:22am June 24th, 2009I’m doing a talk at Glastonbury, Saturday 5pm Green Fields Speakers Tent
Walk up the hill towards the Stone Circle, turn right at the homeopathy tent (if it’s in the s...
6:05am June 24th, 2009World Conference of Science Journalists – Troublemakers Fringe, Penderel’s Oak Pub, Holborn, 1st July 8pm – Midnight
Next week the World Conference of Science Journalists will be coming to London. A few of us felt the...
5:42am June 23rd, 2009Steorn perpetual motion machine, amazingly, may not work: independent jury resigns
For those who care about follow-ups: http://stjury.ning.com/forum/topics/jury-announcement Jury An...
Ben Goldacre - Bad Science recently published...
Steve Connor is an angry man
We’re having a meeting in a pub tonight, it’s free to get in and open to all, we’ll talk about...
We’re having a meeting in a pub tonight, it’s free to get in and open to all, we’ll talk about...
Ben Goldacre - Bad Science recently published...
Dodgy academic PR
Ben Goldacre The Guardian Saturday 30 May 2009 Obviously we distrust the media on science: they rewr...
Ben Goldacre The Guardian Saturday 30 May 2009 Obviously we distrust the media on science: they rewr...
Ben Goldacre - Bad Science recently published...
LBC, MMR, Jeni Barnett, an Early Day Motion, the Times, and, er, a bit of Stephen Fry…
Who have a new column called… …ummm…. no wait… we could call it…. R...
Who have a new column called… …ummm…. no wait… we could call it…. R...
Ben Goldacre - Bad Science recently published...
Steorn perpetual motion machine, amazingly, may not work: independent jury resigns
For those who care about follow-ups: http://stjury.ning.com/forum/topics/jury-announcement Jury An...
For those who care about follow-ups: http://stjury.ning.com/forum/topics/jury-announcement Jury An...
Ben Goldacre - Bad Science recently published...
Behind the curtains
Ben Goldacre The Guardian Saturday 20 June 2009 When is a conversation public, an act of performanc...
Ben Goldacre The Guardian Saturday 20 June 2009 When is a conversation public, an act of performanc...
Ben Goldacre - Bad Science recently published...
This is my column. This is my column on drugs. Any questions?
Ben Goldacre Saturday 13 June 2009 The Guardian In areas of moral and political conflict people will...
Ben Goldacre Saturday 13 June 2009 The Guardian In areas of moral and political conflict people will...
Ben Goldacre - Bad Science recently published...
Home taping didn’t kill music
Ben Goldacre The Guardian Saturday 6th June 2009 You are killing our creative industries. “Downloa...
Ben Goldacre The Guardian Saturday 6th June 2009 You are killing our creative industries. “Downloa...
Ben Goldacre - Bad Science recently published...
Dodgy academic PR
Ben Goldacre The Guardian Saturday 30 May 2009 Obviously we distrust the media on science: they rewr...
Ben Goldacre The Guardian Saturday 30 May 2009 Obviously we distrust the media on science: they rewr...
Ben Goldacre - Bad Science recently published...
What would you say to people from the developing world who use science to make decisions, but don’t necessarily always have a lot of time, or know a lot about it?
I’ve been asked to facilitate a couple of sessions with some civil servant types from various coun...
I’ve been asked to facilitate a couple of sessions with some civil servant types from various coun...
Ben Goldacre - Bad Science recently published...
Chilling warning to parents from top neuroscientist
Ben Goldacre The Guardian Friday 15 May 2009 You will be familiar with the work of Professor Barones...
Ben Goldacre The Guardian Friday 15 May 2009 You will be familiar with the work of Professor Barones...
Ben Goldacre - Bad Science recently published...
Elsevier get into fanzines
Ben Goldacre The Guardian Saturday 8 May 2009 In Australia a fascinating court case has been playing...
Ben Goldacre The Guardian Saturday 8 May 2009 In Australia a fascinating court case has been playing...
Ben Goldacre - Bad Science recently published...
A characteristically amateurish and socially inappropriate approach to pitching an article
Hi there. I’m going to write 800 words on the British Chiropractic Association suing Simon Singh, ...
Hi there. I’m going to write 800 words on the British Chiropractic Association suing Simon Singh, ...
Ben Goldacre - Bad Science recently published...
I don’t really get why people are chatting about Tamiflu as if it’s all that
By-the-by I don’t really understand why the Guardian subs gave this piece, about how Tamiflu isn’...
By-the-by I don’t really understand why the Guardian subs gave this piece, about how Tamiflu isn’...
Ben Goldacre - Bad Science recently published...
Experts say new scientific evidence helpfully justifies massive pre-existing moral prejudice.
Ben Goldacre Saturday April 18, 2009 The Guardian Is it somehow possible – and I know I’m going ...
Ben Goldacre Saturday April 18, 2009 The Guardian Is it somehow possible – and I know I’m going ...
starting another year of fighting bad science
Analysing and critiquing the latest science stories in the news, Ben Goldacre debunks dodgy scientific research and exposes the misrepresentation of medical science and social...
Host:Ben Goldacre - Bad Science
Time:6:30PM Wednesday, January 28th
Location:LSE, Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Presented by Centre For Inquiry London and South Place Ethical Society
Brought to you by Centre for Inquiry London - spend a Saturday with Ben Goldacre, Richard Wiseman, Chris French and Stephen Law as they discuss the science of the weird, and w...
Host:Ben Goldacre - Bad Science
Time:10:30AM Saturday, January 17th
Location:Conway Hall
Adverse psychiatric side effects of medicines - what's our reponsibility?
APRIL (Adverse Psychiatric Reactions Information Link) are holding their third conference in Euston on Thursday 6th November Did you know… 30% of all adverse drug reactions ...
Host:Ben Goldacre - Bad Science
Time:8:30AM Thursday, November 6th
Location:Friends House
Comedy and festivity
8 & 9 Lessons and Carols for Godless people at The Bloomsbury Theatre has been SOLD OUT for some moons now. However, if you wish to celebrate The Festive Season in the compan...
Host:Ben Goldacre - Bad Science
Time:7:30PM Thursday, December 18th
Location:The Bloomsbury Theatre
Broadening minds all over London
If you missed Ben at the pub...and the Southbank Centre...and in Oxford...and in Cambridge...and anywhere else, now's your chance to enrich your mind and to take other people'...
Host:Ben Goldacre - Bad Science
Time:7:00PM Thursday, October 30th
Location:Wanstead Library
As part of the Winton Programme on the Public Understanding of Risk ( www.understandinguncertainty.org ) and in association with the Department of Social and Developmental Psy...
Host:Ben Goldacre - Bad Science
Time:5:30PM Tuesday, October 21st
Location:Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums site
Author, newspaper columnist, NHS doctor and broadcaster, Ben Goldacre is a crusader. His targets are the publicisers of incompetent, biased, false and inaccurate science every...
Host:Ben Goldacre - Bad Science
Time:6:30PM Friday, October 17th
Location: Oxford Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Parks Road, OX1 3PU.
If you missed recent talks by Ben...
Another chance to catch Ben as he, "brings his incisive and irreverent take on science to Southbank Centre". Ben will be having a chat - regrettably in a non-pub setting - to...
Host:Ben Goldacre - Bad Science
Time:7:45PM Wednesday, September 24th
Location:Blue Room, Spirit Level - Soutbank Centre
It's been a year since Skeptics in the Pub was first held at Penderel's Oak in Holborn and the venue was at its busiest - around 250 people crammed into the cellar bar to hear Ben talk about some of the problems he challenges in his book, including why science might not hold all the answers to...
Come!
Ben Goldacre at Skeptics in the Pub. http://www.skeptic.org.uk/pub/ The Penderel's Oak, Holborn. A £2 donation is requested to cover the guest speaker's travelling expense...
Host:Ben Goldacre - Bad Science
Time:7:00PM Monday, September 15th
Location: The Penderel's Oak, Holborn.
School for Gifted Children
http://www.timeout.com/london/comedy/events/806967/school-for-gifted-children.html School for Gifted Children Tue Sep 16 British Library, 96 Euston Rd, London, NW...
Host:Ben Goldacre - Bad Science
Time:6:00PM Tuesday, September 16th
Location:Britisih Library
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http://www.foyles.co.uk/events.asp Wednesday 17 September, 6:30 pm The Gallery, Foyles, 113-119 Charing Cross Rd, WC2H 0EB “Tickets are free, but must be re...
Host:Ben Goldacre - Bad Science
Time:6:00PM Wednesday, September 17th
Location:London
email them to reserve a place
http://www.foyles.co.uk/events.asp Wednesday 17 September, 6:30 pm The Gallery, Foyles, 113-119 Charing Cross Rd, WC2H 0EB “Tickets are free, but must be re...
Host:Ben Goldacre - Bad Science
Time:6:00PM Wednesday, September 17th
Location:London
Ben Goldacre - Bad Science recently published...
Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 4 July 2009 There’s nothing like science for giving that obje...