Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 Ben Goldacre is a physician, the creator of badscience.net, the author of the ...

Bad science is everywhere, from late night informercials to the worlds biggest drug companies. Fortunately, Dr Ben Goldacre has written a very entertaining book to help us identify the telltale signs.

"Ok, hands up. I hate nutritionists and phony diet marketers. I hate them because they confuse evidence and theory. I hate them because they make sweeping assertions that something will work in the ...

Explore bad science in the media as Ben Goldacre critiques journalism's handling of science stories, including MMR media disaster. Ben Goldacre, writing in this Thursday's edition of The Guardian's ...