Read I Think You'll Find It's a Bit More Complicated Than That Online
Authors: Ben Goldacre
In the
Telegraph
:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/onthefrontline/4681443/British-forces-in-Afghanistan-seize-50m-of-heroin-and-kill-20-Taliban.html
MoD press release
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http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/MilitaryOperations/HelicopterborneTroopsStrikeAtTalibansDrugIndustry.htm
chemicals and vats
:
http://www.metimes.com/International/2008/05/14/converting_afghan_opium_into_heroin/3696/
2008 world report
:
http://www.unodc.org/documents/crop-monitoring/Afghanistan_Opium_Survey_2008.pdf
cheap and easy
:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/heroin/transform/
wholesale price fallen dramatically
:
http://www.unodc.org/documents/wdr/WDR_2008/WDR2008_Statistical_Annex_Prices.pdf
The Least Surrogate Outcome
The Least Surrogate
:
http://www.badscience.net/2008/04/the-least-surrogate-outcome/
aren’t very informative
:
http://www.jstor.org/pss/3552863
or reliable
:
http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/full/129/12/1066?ck=nck
Drugs
: Protecting Families and Communities:
http://drugs.homeoffice.gov.uk/publication-search/drug-strategy/drug-action-plan-2008-2011?view=Binary
Public Service Agreement Delivery
:
http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/media/B/1/pbr_csr07_psa25.pdf
Heroin on Prescription
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LIBEL
NMT Is Suing Dr Peter Wilmshurst. So How Trustworthy Is This Company?Let’s Look at Its Website …
NMT is Suing
:
http://www.badscience.net/2010/12/nmt-are-suing-dr-wilmshurst-so-how-trustworthy-are-they/
MIST trial was funded
:
http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/reprint/CIRCULATIONAHA.107.727271v1
go to its website
:
http://www.nmtmedical.com/
outcome of MIST trial
:
http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/reprint/CIRCULATIONAHA.107.727271v1
really was negative
:
http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/short/CIRCULATIONAHA.107.727271v1
a lengthy correction
:
http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/120/9/e71
2005 NMT report
:
http://www.snl.com/IRWebLinkX/GenPage.aspx?IID=4148066&GKP=202513
restricted by GMC
:
http://webcache.gmc-uk.org/minutesfiles/2063.html
fallen from $20
:
http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/dynamic_charting.aspx?selected=NMTI&symbol=NMTI
‘We Are More Possible Than You Can Powerfully Imagine’
Guardian
:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2009/jul/29/simon-singh-science-chiropractic-litigation
intending to do good
:
http://ebn.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/10/1/4
British Medical Journal
:
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=
web&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bmj.com%2F&ei=VURwSp3tMMahjAfo282hBQ&usg=AFQjCNFrgA5ACj4Qwf7dYRivBOSsYx2Hrg&sig2=2-JerEf-4W8otKp9mO4J7A
The Times
:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/article6426195.ece
Daily Mail
:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1196696/Back-cures-brave-scientist-epic-court-battle-How-Britains-libel-laws-threatening-free-speech.html
Daily Telegraph
:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/5442522/Stephen-Fry-and-Ricky-Gervais-defend-science-writer-sued-for-libel.html
Independent
:
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/jeremy-laurance-the-libel-laws-that-threaten-to-stifle-scientific-debate-1744810.html
Nature
:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v459/n7248/full/459751a.html
Economist
:
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13809291
Times Higher Education
:
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=406872&c=1
Sunday Times
:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/article6493564.ece
Channel 4
:
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/uk/ouch+dr+singh+hits+back/3194057
Wall Street Journal
:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124406714025182743.html
Observer
:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/may/31/simon-singh-science
British Medical Journal
:
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/339/jul08_4/b2783
international petition
:
http://www.senseaboutscience.org.uk/index.php/site/project/333
Professor David Colquhorn
:
http://www.dcscience.net/?p=1775
BCA selectively quoting
:
http://layscience.net/node/598
Every stone was turned
:
http://www.layscience.net/node/598
Quackometer
:
http://www.quackometer.net/
APGaylard
:
http://apgaylard.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/plethora-or-paucity-the-bca-and-bedwetting/
Gimplyblog
:
http://gimpyblog.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/the-bca-have-no-evidence-that-chiropractic-can-help-with-ear-infections/
EvidenceMatters
:
http://evidencematters.org/2009/06/18/british-chiropractic-association-and-the-plethora-of-evidence-for-paediatric-asthma/
Dr Petra Boynton
:
http://www.drpetra.co.uk/blog/?p=857
Ministry of Truth
:
http://www.ministryoftruth.me.uk/2009/06/18/examining-the-bcas-plethora-of-evidence/
Holfordwatch
:
http://holfordwatch.info/2009/06/18/british-chiropractic-association-bca-demonstrate-what-evidence-based-medicine-isnt/
Jack of Kent
:
http://jackofkent.blogspot.com/2009/06/bcas-worst-day-yet.html
Advertising Standards Authority
:
http://www.zenosblog.com/2009/07/another-asa-win-against-quackery.html
breached the guidelines
:
http://www.asa.org.uk/asa/adjudications/Public/TF_ADJ_46281.htm
individual chiropractors’ claims
:
http://jdc325.wordpress.com/2009/05/14/bassett-chiropractic/
blogger Simon Perry
:
http://adventuresinnonsense.blogspot.com/2009/06/500-chiropractors-reported-to-trading.html
exactly the same thing
:
http://www.zenosblog.com/2009/06/omnibus-complaint-to-general.html
on Quackometer
:
http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2009/06/chiropractors-told-to-take-down-their.html
Science Is About Embracing Your Knockers
Science is About
:
http://www.badscience.net/2010/11/science-is-about-embracing-your-knockers/
Maria Hatzistenfanis
:
http://www.rodial.co.uk/about_maria/marias_profile.aspx
This is her crime
:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/beauty/article-1316454/Rodial-Boob-Job-gel-Cream-increases-bust-size-goes-sale-125.html
do in a checklist
:
http://www.badscience.net/2009/09/how-to-read-articles-about-health-by-dr-alicia-white/
The Return of Dr McKeith
The Return
:
http://www.badscience.net/2010/07/and-then-i-was-incompetently-libelled-by-a-litigious-millionaire/
‘Gillian McKeith’
:
http://www.badscience.net/2007/02/ms-gillian-mckeith-banned-from-calling-herself-a-doctor/