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Mobile phones, cancer, and dodgy reporting
Posted on May 17, 2010 | 2 CommentsThe largest ever study of the potential link between mobile phone use and cancer has been completed, and news outlets around the world are reporting that it shows evidence of... -
The science of riots. Can iPhone apps start riots?
Posted on May 9, 2010 | 2 CommentsCan an iphone app with special audio files be used to start riots? I really doubt it. Atari Teenage Riot, a German electronic hard core group, has reportedly had their... -
Brain development and snake oil: graphical presentations of science
Posted on March 11, 2010 | 1 CommentIn a number of previous posts, I’ve discussed the way science can sometimes be wonderfully communicated through comics. (See here, here and here.) And it seems it used to be... -
Pot causes psychosis? Not so fast…
Posted on March 6, 2010 | 6 Comments“Teen Pot Use Linked To Psychoses“, “Teen pot smokers at high risk of mental illness“,”Study finds cannabis use is ‘crazy-making’” are the headlines being produced about some new research that... -
Can unconscious brains think? Coma, philosophy of mind, and the media.
Posted on February 5, 2010 | 8 Comments“Ok brain. I don’t like you and you don’t like me. Let’s just do this and I can go back to killing you with beer.” - Homer Simpson A new... -
Fish oil: Bogus or not?
Posted on February 3, 2010 | 8 CommentsIn a previous post which considered some of the bogus science claims made by the Australian TV show Today Tonight, I had a brief look at a few things that... -
Actually, maybe economists did prove money can buy happiness…
Posted on January 22, 2010 | 9 CommentsA little while ago, I wrote a post about an article in Science about the relationship between “objective” measurements of “quality of life” and subjective measurements of “life-satisfaction”. The article... -
How risky is a home birth? Some thoughts about the number crunching.
Posted on January 20, 2010 | 6 CommentsFor some time now, there has been a heated debate in Australia about home births. Home birth advocates argue that a woman should have the right to choose how to... -
![Last week, Science published the results of a study [pdf] that positively answers once and for all the question that every philosopher (and non-philosopher) since Plato has asked themselves: Money...](http://www.goodbadandbogus.com/wp-content/uploads/Money_Happiness-195x105.jpg "Economists (don’t) prove that money can buy you happiness… And news outlets prove they’re crap.")
Economists (don’t) prove that money can buy you happiness… And news outlets prove they’re crap.
Posted on December 30, 2009 | 25 CommentsLast week, Science published the results of a study [pdf] that positively answers once and for all the question that every philosopher (and non-philosopher) since Plato has asked themselves: Money... -
Science journalists get punked? “Santa’s a Health Menace”
Posted on December 22, 2009 | 5 CommentsNewsweek reports today: Around the world, news outlets have been reporting on a new study in BMJ, the U.K.’s leading medical journal. In the article, titled “Santa Claus: A Public Health...