Bad Science. Ben Goldacre.

Science interminable: Blame Ben?

Science is indeed interminable. Criticizing old ideas, coming up with new ones in an iterative process of creative destruction and reinvention is the spice of life for research. But there is another seemingly interminable aspect of science, at least in the biomedical arena, related to journal publication. When I was a postdoctoral fellow with Julius “Julie” Axelrod at the National Institutes of...

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THE PHENOMENAL SUCCESS OF SCIENCE IN THE 19th and 20th centuries has given rise to two forecasts about its future. Accelerationists see science continuing to progress at an ever-increasing rate, while end-of-science scholars look back upon the achievements of the previous century and make the judgement that the great advances have already been made. The superficiality of much of the debate is h...

Bioassay bashing is bad science.

The Spheres of Influence, “Assessing Assays” (Schmidt 2002), in the May 2002 issue of EHP criticizes the National Toxicology Program rodent bioassay (NTPRB) without discussing its importance in regulation and public health. The Spheres article (Schmidt 2002) does not express concern for the validity of alternative transgenic methods proposed to replace the NTPRB for detecting carcinogens. By fo...

Édité par S . Ben Amor University of Ottawa Management Science

Annales de Congrès annuel de la section Recherche opérationnelle de l'Association des sciences administratives du Canada Halifax, Nouvelle-Écosse 24-27 mai, 2008 2 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS These proceedings include the research papers presented at the 2008 meeting of the Management Science Division of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC). The topics covered represent various aspects ...

The Good and Bad Science of Autism