You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted..

Data is the fabric of the modern world: just like we walk down pavements, so we trace routes through data, and build knowledge and products out of it..

Real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else's position..

And if, by the end [of this book], you reckon you might still disagree with me, then I offer you this: you'll still be wrong, but you'll be wrong wit….

Just just because there are flaws in aircraft design that doesn't mean flying carpets exist..

Yes. I'm a doctor, an epidemiologist, and lots of my professional colleagues flip back and forth between industry and medical roles. I know them; the….

I'd like to submit to Bad Science my teacher who gave us a handout which says that 'Water is best absorbed by the body when provided in frequent smal….

If I was writing a lifestyle book it would have the same advice on every page, and you’d know it all already. Eat lots of fruit and vegetables, and l….

There is this peculiar blind spot in the culture of academic medicine around whether withholding trial results is research misconduct. People who wor….

Science has authority not because of white coats or titles, but because of precision and transparency: you explain your theory, set out your evidence….