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| Ben Goldacre, badscience.net |
This week I've read a couple of pieces by
Ben Goldacre, a doctor who writes a regular column called "
Bad Science" in
The Guardian and has written columns for
The British Medical Journal, among other rags. The excerpt from his book
Bad Pharma, called "
The drugs don't work: a modern medical scandal" is good. Even more approachable, and somewhat broader in its target, is his
TED video from this summer, "
What doctors don't know about the drugs they prescribe".
In both the excerpt and the TED talk, he uses a case where he, a doctor probably more careful than most, was misled into prescribing a drug later shown to be not only ineffective, but harmful.
Two of my favorite science writers, Ed Yong and Carl Zimmer, got me reading Goldacre.
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