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Latest podcast episodes about Bad Pharma

The Genetics Podcast
EP 140: The future of Electronic Health Records and data analysis with Ben Goldacre

The Genetics Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2024 52:51


This week, we're joined by Ben Goldacre, a renowned doctor, academic, author, and journalist. His books include “Bad Science” and “Bad Pharma,” among others, and he is currently a Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine at University of Oxford. There, he runs the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science which aims to pioneer the better use of data, evidence and digital tools in healthcare and policy. Patrick and Ben discuss Join Patrick and Ben for an open conversation about Ben's choice to step back from the public eye and the power of the OpenSAFELY platform to improve security, transparency and analysis of Electronic Health Records.

De OERsterk podcast
Leo van der Zijde: ‘De mens heeft meer inzicht in gezondheid en ziekte nodig. Big Bad Pharma redt ons niet‘

De OERsterk podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 6, 2024 77:14


Leo van der Zijde is grondlegger van de Evocircadian Code, een raamwerk dat de mens vanuit evolutionair perspectief vanaf de conceptie benadert. Hij is docent en auteur van meerdere boeken. Benieuwd naar de gratis E-letters van Leo? Check dan http://www.leovanderzijde.nl Zie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

End Time Podcast with David Heavener: What you Won't Hear in Church
Bid Bad Pharma. Who's Really Behind It & Their Evil Brew! Dr Tenpenny & David Heavener 5-13-24 LIVE

End Time Podcast with David Heavener: What you Won't Hear in Church

Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2024 47:19


Will you pay it forward? Visit DavidHeavener.GiveVirtuous.org/donate

End Time Podcast - What you Won't Hear in Church (audio)
Bid Bad Pharma. Who's Really Behind It & Their Evil Brew! Dr Tenpenny & David Heavener 5-13-24 LIVE

End Time Podcast - What you Won't Hear in Church (audio)

Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2024 47:19


Will you pay it forward? Visit DavidHeavener.GiveVirtuous.org/donate

Monkey Mind
Episode 038: Dirty Data

Monkey Mind

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2023 75:50


Grace and David talk about fudging data, data illiteracy, misaligned incentives, and all the ways in which data is used and misused in science. Note: this will be our last episode. Goodhart's law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law) My personal favorite Dilbert strips on Software Quality (https://medium.com/@nairgirish100/my-personal-favorite-dilbert-strips-on-software-quality-be90b46e2f04) Elisabeth Bik (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_Bik) Homo economicus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_economicus) Fabricated data in research about honesty. You can't make this stuff up. Or, can you? : Planet Money (https://www.npr.org/2023/07/27/1190568472/dan-ariely-francesca-gino-harvard-dishonesty-fabricated-data) Data Colada (https://datacolada.org/) [110] Data Falsificada (Part 2): "My Class Year Is Harvard" - Data Colada (https://datacolada.org/110) Max Bazerman's 2021 response to fraud evidence (http://datacolada.org/storage_strong/fraud.resonse.max_.8.13.21.pdf) Complicit (https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691236544/complicit) eLife (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELife) eLife Reviewed Preprints (https://elife-rp.msubmit.net/cgi-bin/main.plex?form_type=display_rev_instructions#process) Bad Pharma (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Pharma) Significant (https://xkcd.com/882/) The Fall of a Superstar Psychologist (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3tSG8h_O3A)

ProLongevity
How to Eat Rich and Live Long | Graham Phillips & Ivor Cummins | The ProLongevity Podcast - Episode 17

ProLongevity

Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2022 69:22


0:00 Introduction0:38 Eat Rich-Live Long (Ivor's Book)2:50 Ivor's journey from sickness to health "Insulin Resistance"07:37 Having fixed his own health Ivor became an evangelist to help others10:42 What is Metabolic Syndrome? How common is it?13:30 Metabolic Syndrome kills many more people than Covid we should act!15:27 Root causes of Type2 Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome (diet)21:55 So what SHOULD we eat to be healthy?32:16 Graham's Twitter spat with Innocent Smoothies38:12 How does sugar damage our cardiovascular system? (The Glycocalyx)41:11 Ancel Keys: The Diet-Heart Hypothesis (Bad Food and Bad Pharma)56:50 Food as an investment in your health59:00 Solutions!1:03:32 Using Tech to measure your healthResources discussed in the podcast:Ivor Cummin's BookEarly Technical TalkVitamin DThe Common Soil HypothesisDr. Micheal Eades - 'Paleopathology and the Origins of the Low-carb Diet' Dr. Michael Eades and The Fat EmperorGabor Erdosi - Processed Food PerilsGabor Erdosi and The Fat EmperorNina TeicholzRobert Lustig on the ProLongevity PodcastDr. Chris Knobbe - Diseases of Civilization: Are Seed Oil Excesses the Unifying Mechanism?Dr. Chris Knobbe - Omega-6 Apocalypse: From Heart Disease to Cancer and Macular DegenerationNadir Ali - Beating Heart Disease Through Understanding LDLTed Naiman MD - Protein vs EnergyThe Fat Emperor - The Crucial Story of Vitamin D and Human HealthMark Felstead from We Love Our Heart on the ProLongevity PodcastIn case you missed it, Graham and Ivor did a podcast last year which makes for some riveting content, please watch, enjoy, and leave a comment so you can help other people in similar circumstances feel confident about trying ProLongevity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx3UvZDL7H4

The G Word
Ben Goldacre: The use and safety of data

The G Word

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2022 52:52


“If you want to reduce suffering and death, you don't do that by depositing a PDF in a journal archive that gets read by eight people. You've got to go out there in the real world, you've got to change activity and behaviour.”  In this week's episode of The G Word, Chris Wigley is joined by Ben Goldacre, Director of TheDataLab at Oxford University, author and and lead on an upcoming review about better use of NHS data. He discusses the use and safety of data, his book Bad Pharma and OpenSAFELY. He also talks about his early career and connecting data.   

The Hope Machine
Ben Goldacre: How looking at data in OpenSAFELY is helping fight COVID

The Hope Machine

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2021 17:51


A special episode featuring doctor, academic, writer, and broadcaster Ben Goldacre. The author of Bad Pharma, Bad Science and other titles, Ben's books have sold over 600,000 copies – and his TED talks have had over 4 million views.Ben now runs the Data Lab at Oxford University, working with a multi-disciplinary team of academics, healthcare providers and software developers. Last year, just as the COVID-19 pandemic hit, your donations helped us support the Open Safely project that Ben and his colleagues pulled together amazingly rapidly. It's been hugely influential in transforming the way health records are analysed by researchers – and had immediate impact in helping the UK government make decisions about how to respond to the pandemic.As well as getting to know Ben a little better, we'll also be asking him to take on our 60 second challenge. Can he explain the world of health data analysis in language so simple a nine year old can understand it? We'll find out…Help us fund more cutting edge research to bring hope to the millions living with lung conditions in the UK: asthma.org.uk/hopemachineSee acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Vanished in the Valley
Vanished Memory of Big Bad Pharma

Vanished in the Valley

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2021 29:46


In this episode Athena talks about some recent conspiracy facts related to many different pharmaceutical companies. We also talk about the recent resignations over at the FDA and some Fauci Fuckery.

SURVIVING HEALTHCARE
Chapter 13 HORMONE SECRETS--MONEY DEFORMS THYROID CARE

SURVIVING HEALTHCARE

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2021 14:41


Randy's words from a website about Armour porcine thyroid: I, too, was doing great on Armour. No more. They put me on levothyroxine [synthetic T4] and Cytomel [synthetic T3]. I felt awful, so depressed...Drugmakers fake and suppress their studies. Knoll Pharmaceuticals, the Synthroid maker, hid one showing that their drug was no better than the other thyroids. Knoll paid more than $100 million to consumers after the ensuing class-action lawsuit settled in 2000. Later, the pharmaceutical companies sponsored over ten bogus studies that purported to show porcine thyroid was no improvement over T4. Each trial used only 1/2 grain of the pork thyroid (30 mg), even though the proper dose is one to two grains (60-120 mg) or more (about the same as .075 to .15 mg of T4). Each study concluded that the tiny dose of pig thyroid did not work. With these doses, of course, it could never work. This type of false comparison is a routine strategy used by drugmakers to get FDA approval or to run down a competitor. For more, see Ben Goldacre's Bad Pharma (2012) and my FDA chapter here.There have been claims that the porcine thyroid manufacturing is faulty, and that this makes it inferior to Synthroid, the branded T4. However, Synthroid was recalled ten times between 1991 and 1997. This involved over 100 million tablets. The FDA requires T4 to fall within 5% of its stated potency, but most samples analyzed had far less active ingredient and some had none. Because many patients need thyroid to survive, there were hospitalizations. In 2001, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a warning that they might pull Synthroid from the market. There were also two recalls in 2012-13 involving issues with potency, stability, and manufacturing. See Mary Shomon's website for references, including the FDA letter documenting the story. This link is offline and may have been suppressed by special interests. I had to search for it on the Wayback Machine internet archive (archive.org). Physicians have used porcine thyroid for over a century. It was first approved by the FDA in 1939. In Thailand, it is an over-the-counter supplement. I could find only three recalls for this desiccated pig thyroid, including one started by the manufacturer in 2020 for a 13 percent drop in potency. This might have gone unnoticed, but since thyroid strength is critical, they were doing the right thing.T4 has been available since 1927 without a formal FDA evaluation. It was given “grandfather” status in 1938 because it was assumed to be equivalent to porcine thyroid, which was considered the “gold standard.” The Synthroid brand finally passed a perfunctory FDA review in Support the show (https://paypal.me/dryohoauthor?locale.x=en_US)

Behind the SchƎmƎs
S01E41: Eternal Dyson

Behind the SchƎmƎs

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 20, 2021 139:35


"I got a hunger, and the only cure...is more bootprints!" Lavish and Boo-Bury are joined by a new contender to chew on what really gets authoritarians going! It's a Battle Royale of Blood Suckin' Hunger Games Gates of Faustus Three Pointy Fingers Up In The Air sort of grand ole' time you always expect from Behind The Sch3m3s. And of course, there's always your Scream-Mails that keep us going! Bad Pharma, Big Bro Tech, what's not to love as long as it's at the circus! BYO3-DG Call in and leave your Scream-Mail on the Cr33p Phone! 612-263-SXXY ZOSO'S CORNER (Show Notes) Follow us on Social Sesame at FeedBag (Facebook), Insta-Groan (Instagram) and The Twits (Twitter)! @behindthesch3m3s https://www.behindthesch3m3s.com/

Sped up Rationally Speaking
Rationally Speaking #81 - Live! Ben Goldacre on Bad Pharma

Sped up Rationally Speaking

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 14, 2020 61:06


"Medicine is broken," warns Ben Goldacre, the British physician, academic, author of the Guardian's Bad Science column. In this live episode of Rationally Speaking, Massimo and Julia interview Ben about his new book, Bad Pharma, and how the evidence about pharmaceutical drugs gets distorted due to shoddy regulations, missing data, and the influence of drug companies. Sped up the speakers by ['1.13', '1.0']

Monkey Mind
Episode 001: From Bad Wi-Fi to Bad Science

Monkey Mind

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2020 72:56


David is serving his Stay-Home Notice at a hotel with bad wi-fi. We talk a little bit about the state of Covid-19 in Singapore on 28 March (ahh, such innocent times), how science gets done, and what happens when science is done badly. Recorded on 28 March 2020. Everything you need to know about Stay-Home Notice (https://www.gov.sg/article/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-stay-home-notice) COVID-19: Stay-home notices for all travellers entering Singapore from ASEAN countries, Japan, UK, Switzerland (https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/coronavirus-covid-19-singapore-malaysia-asean-stay-home-notice-12539952) Wonder how dangerous a gathering can be? Here's how one event sparked hundreds of coronavirus cases across Asia (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-19/coronavirus-spread-from-malaysian-event-to-multiple-countries/12066092) Tracking the Coronavirus: How Crowded Asian Cities Tackled an Epidemic (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/world/asia/coronavirus-singapore-hong-kong-taiwan.html) ICA | Singapore Permanent Resident Failed To Declare Recent Travel History To Indonesia (https://www.ica.gov.sg/news-and-publications/media-releases/media-release/singapore-permanent-resident-failed-to-declare-recent-travel-history-to-indonesia) Hydroxychloroquine-COVID-19 study did not meet publishing society's "expected standard" (https://retractionwatch.com/2020/04/06/hydroxychlorine-covid-19-study-did-not-meet-publishing-societys-expected-standard/) Bad Pharma (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Pharma) Bad Science (Goldacre book) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Science_(Goldacre_book)) Compensatory Vowel Lengthening for Omitted Coda Consonants: A Phonetic Investigation of Children's Early Representations of Prosodic Words - Jae Yung Song, Katherine Demuth, 2008 (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0023830908099071) 'Avalanche' of spider-paper retractions shakes behavioural-ecology community (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00287-y) #pruittgate (https://twitter.com/hashtag/pruittgate?lang=en) A New Book Argues That Generic Drugs Are Poisoning Us (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/13/books/review/bottle-of-lies-katherine-eban.html) MOH | Clinical Evidence Summaries (https://www.moh.gov.sg/covid-19/clinical-evidence-summaries)

FollowTheMoney
15. Presidenterna, coronaviruset och Big Bad Pharma

FollowTheMoney

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2020 38:34


Den amerikanska läkemedelsmarknaden är hårt ansatt av en allt mer enig opinion. 80 procent av väljarna har angett att sänkta medicinpriser är huvudfrågan inför det stundande presidentvalet och bolagen hotas av kraftiga reformer och ett rubbat status quo. I bakgrunden finns ett faktum att amerikaner betalar multum för sina mediciner. Det är en konsekvens av frihetsivran med hoppet ställt till en öppen kapitalism - idéer som gått i baklås när de kombinerats med häftiga patentlängder och fri prissättning. Men vad är det som väntar för branschen, som täljt guld med fällkniv i den gigantiska USA-marknaden, och hur direkt är hotet egentligen? Både Republikanernas president Donald Trump och Demokraternas mest trolige kandidat, Joe Biden, har lyft att det dysfunktionella systemet inom kort ska ses över. Men vad händer om socialiststämplade Bernie Sanders spurtar i mål som segrare med löften om att krossa girigheten och den fortsatt helt legala korruption som kringgärdar Big Bad Pharma? En alternativ utveckling är att opinionens vindar vänder, och att läkemedelsbranschen tragikomiskt nog plötsligt sitter med trumf på hand. Jakten på ett vaccin mot en global pandemi blir allt mer bråd och läkemedelsbolagen har ju alltid hävdat att de är beroende av sina höga marginaler för att forska fram botemedel till svåra sjukdomar och epidemier. Det här är FollowTheMoney, en podcast om makt, storfinans och svenska börsen av och med Nyhetsbyrån Direkts utrikesredaktör Joakim Rönning och programledaren Martin Nilsson.

World of Weird Things Podcast
WoWT Podcast Episode 035: Big Bad Pharma

World of Weird Things Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 4, 2019 45:30


Dr. Steven Novella joins the Fishes to talk about the follies of Big Pharma and the conspiracy theories swirling around it. Are cures really less profitable than long term treatment? Can you even keep a cure a secret in this day and age? And why are people resorting to conspiracies to answer questions addressed in just about any book about medicine and biology?

The Rationable Podcast
What is Evidence? Part 1: Randomised controlled trials

The Rationable Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2019 27:42


Just because you might not be a scientist, doesn't mean you can't look for and understand the evidence behind a claim. Now you can get started by investigating randomised controlled trials.Further Reading:If you want to buy the books, I'd appreciate it if you could use the links I've added below. I'll get a small commission which supports Rationable and everything that it does.Bad Pharma by Ben GoldacreTrick or Treatment by Simon Singh and Edzard ErnstHow to read a paper: The basics of evidence-based medicine by Trisha GreenhalghSteven Novella's discussions on p-hacking:https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/get-rid-of-statistical-significance/https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/p-hacking-and-other-statistical-sins/Rationable's article on Homeopathy: https://www.berationable.com/rationable-blog/2019/03/20/does-homeopathy-workhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomized_controlled_trialhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lindhttps://emj.bmj.com/content/20/2/164https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/The blog version of this episode: https://www.berationable.com/rationable-blog/2019/6/11/what-is-evidence-part-1-randomised-controlled-trialsIntro and outro music: Don't Stop performed by Nothing More, from their album, The Stories We Tell Ourselves. The sound clips have been used with their permission.Questions, suggestions or just want to get in touch? Find me on Instagram and Twitter @berationable and on Facebook @Rationable. Join the conversation on the Rationable Conversations Facebook group and email me at contact.rationable@gmail.com. For more content like this, visit www.berationable.com.

Daily Telegraph News & Politics
Generation PROZAC and Bad Pharma for Chemist - News Wrap, April 24.

Daily Telegraph News & Politics

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2019 3:31


Simran Gill reads the headlines for April 24, 2019. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Slate Money
The Bad Pharma Edition

Slate Money

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2019 41:17


On this week’s episode, Emily Peck, Felix Salmon and Anna Szymanski discuss Apple’s list of new services, the Purdue Pharma settlement and Lyft going public. In the Slate Plus segment: Where have all the suits gone? Email: slatemoney@slate.comTwitter: @felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas,@EmilyRPeck Podcast production by Jessamine Molli. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Slate Daily Feed
Slate Money: The Bad Pharma Edition

Slate Daily Feed

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2019 41:17


On this week’s episode, Emily Peck, Felix Salmon and Anna Szymanski discuss Apple’s list of new services, the Purdue Pharma settlement and Lyft going public. In the Slate Plus segment: Where have all the suits gone? Email: slatemoney@slate.comTwitter: @felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas,@EmilyRPeck Podcast production by Jessamine Molli. This episode is brought to you by Transferwise. Check them out today at transferwise.com/money Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Doctor Anna's Imaginarium Podcast
The Big Bad Pharma Conspiracy: Audio article

Doctor Anna's Imaginarium Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2018 7:29


The Big Pharma Conspiracy. Why do we have the myth of the all-powerful and evil Big Bad Pharma? Well, for a good conspiracy theory to spread you need a grain of truth. But, it isn't all bad. What went wrong? and what can we do? Can Bad Pharma become Good Pharma? This is the audio article to the article The Big Pharma Conspiracy. Release to the general public, June 1st, 2018. Patrons have early access. Blog: annazakrisson.com Twitter: @XDr_AnnaX Instagram: @annazakrisson YouTube: Doctor Anna's Imaginarium Support us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/doctorannasimaginarium

The Relationship Show with Dr. Wendy & Miss Jenni
The Relationship Show with Dr. Wendy & Miss Jenni - "Our Relationship to Food & Nutrition with guest Duane Law" - ep. 31

The Relationship Show with Dr. Wendy & Miss Jenni

Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2017 101:02


Ep 31 TRS - "Our Relationship to Food & Nutrients with guest Duane Law, LAc" -      Wendy and Jenni talk to acupuncturist, naturopath, author, speaker, and owner of NaturalStressCare.org Duane Law, L.A.c about the long-term impact of what we put in our bodies, how it affects our moods and relationships, and how we can use nutrition, acupuncture and micronutrients to improve the quality of life... and perhaps even lengthen it.       © Jenni J.V. Wilson 2017   TRS email:  RelationshipShowLA@gmail.com     web: www.DoctorWendyOConnor.com   e:  DrWendyOConnor@gmail.com   fb: www.facebook.com/askdrwendy   tw: @askDrWendy   intsta: IamDrWendy   ph: 310/712-1230     web: www.JenniJVWilson.com   e:  JenniferJVWilson@gmail.com   fb: www.facebook.com/JenniJVWilson   tw: @JenniJVWilson   insta: ThePreppyRebel       TRS GUEST -    Guest:     Duane Law   Web:  naturalstresscare.org   Tw: @DuaneLaw2   FB: facebook.com/NaturalStressCare   Blog: SelfCareAdvisor.net   Email: Duane@NaturalStressCare.org   Ph: 310/498-2777       SHOW MENTIONS  -   - “Bad Pharma” - by Ben Goldacre https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Pharma-Companies-Mislead-Patients/dp/0865478007 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Pharma   - Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine - http://orthomolecular.org/library/jom/   - “Anatomy of An Epidemic” - by Robert Whitaker - http://robertwhitaker.org/robertwhitaker.org/Anatomy%20of%20an%20Epidemic.html   - Science Friday NPR -  http://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/how-older-brains-could-benefit-from-marijuana/   - The Daily Show on City Municipal Water - http://www.cc.com/video-clips/85lgid/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-brown-in-town---a-west-texas-water-crisis   - Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic - http://www.kerlanjobe.com/   - Dr McDougall's Starch-based Diet https://www.drmcdougall.com/   - The Meat We Eat - http://www.meatscience.org/themeatweeat   - The Environmental Working Group - EWG - http://www.ewg.org/   - Flora 3-6-9 - http://www.florahealth.com/product_categories_usa.cfm?category_id=6&prod_id=260   - 60 Minutes “The Flavorist” - http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/the-flavorists-tweaking-tastes-and-creating-cravings/   - Amy Day (on adrenals) - http://dramyday.com/   - L-Glutamine   -Eat The Rainbow http://lifehacker.com/what-it-means-to-eat-the-rainbow-1594799068   MUSIC CUES -   K.D. Lang - “Constant Craving” Fleetwood Mac - “Little Lies" Diana Ross - “Ain't No Mountain High Enough"

Zoomer Week in Review
2013-02-24-ZWIR

Zoomer Week in Review

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2016 21:18


On This Edition of the Zoomer Week in Review:Sunlife Canada just released their 2013

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Speaking with...
Speaking with: Bad Pharma author Ben Goldacre about how bad research hurts us all

Speaking with...

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2016 26:31


Ben Goldacre says that greater transparency on research findings could increase the public's faith in essential medicines. ShutterstockWe are living in a time where we have greater access to lifesaving medicines and treatments than ever before. But we’re also seeing a surge in the rejection of the medical research and the scientific community in general, with anti-vaccination activists and climate change sceptics building followings and taking seats in government. How do we bridge the divide to those who have lost trust in science? Dr Ben Goldacre – epidemiologist, columnist and author of the books Bad Pharma and Bad Science – believes that greater transparency around the data used in research and better communication of results is the answer. And he thinks the public can understand a lot more about scientific research than either the media or academia gives them credit for. The University of New South Wales’ Dr Darren Saunders spoke to Dr Goldacre about his first forays into writing about science for The Guardian, his current project exploring reporting practices in medical journals and why he believes science communication is the answer. Subscribe to The Conversation’s Speaking With podcasts on iTunes, or follow on Tunein Radio. Music Free Music Archive - Blue Dot Sessions, Wisteria Free Music Archive - Dave Depper, “Wholesome 7” Darren Saunders receives funding from NHMRC, US Dept. of Defense, and MNDRIA.

Alumni Voices
Writer, doctor and champion of evidence-based medicine, Dr Ben Goldacre (Magdalen, 1992)

Alumni Voices

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2015 15:27


Dr Ben Goldacre – author of the bestsellers Bad Science and Bad Pharma – dissects what is wrong with modern medicine and argues for better evidence-based medicine in this podcast. He describes his latest projects, including an Ebola trials tracker, to improve the transparency of clinical trials. Dr Goldacre explains his research at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences’ Centre for Evidence-based Medicine, part of Oxford University. He also refers to structural challenges facing medicine and highlights the lack of funding for evidence-based projects. The self-confessed ‘stats geek’, who studied medicine at Magdalen College at Oxford University, describes how he was inspired by his enthusiastic tutors during his studies. The doctor, academic, campaigner and writer also counsels against so-called miracle cures.

Openness at Oxford
Ben Goldacre on Open Data

Openness at Oxford

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2015 17:31


Ben Goldacre, author of Bad Science and Bad Pharma, shares his views on Open Data and discusses his involvement in projects created in the spirit of openness.

Conway Hall: Where Ethics Matter
London Thinks - Ben Goldacre & Trisha Greenhalgh Q&A

Conway Hall: Where Ethics Matter

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2015 27:01


The very best journalism from one of Britain's most admired and outspoken science writers, author of the bestselling "Bad Science" and "Bad Pharma" and his new book "I Think You'll Find It's a Bit More Complicated Than That"

The Reality Check
TRC #332: Wind Chill + Bad Pharma Overview + Does Bottled Water Expire?

The Reality Check

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 16, 2015 41:39


Even with Adam away, TRC delivers!  Cristina blows in with an interesting breakdown of the Wind Chill Index, while Darren probes the book “Bad Pharma” by British physician and academic Ben Goldacre.  Finally, Pat flushes out the truth behind why bottled water has an expiration date.  

Mixed Mental Arts
Ep104 - Bad Pharma Discussion

Mixed Mental Arts

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2014 44:17


Dr. Ben Goldacre is the author of two excellent books, Bad Pharma and Bad Science, but he didn’t show up for this episode so there’s not much point telling you more about him. So, Bryan and Hunter just had a conversation the same way they would if a famous author/doctor wasn’t around…because he wasn’t. This episode features Bryan and Hunter talking a lot about Bad Pharma—because it really is an excellent book—and then more generally about the scientific method, how much regulation of the pharmaceutical industry is optimal and what exactly is going on inside Bryan’s pants. We’d actually really recommend both Bad Pharma and Bad Science. We’d also love to interview Dr. Ben, so send him a tweet and ask him to come on The Bryan Callen Show. @bengoldacre. Paging, Dr. Ben. Paging, Dr. Ben. Your presence is requested on The Bryan Callen Show.

BBC Inside Science
Universal flu vaccine; Science games; AllTrials; Penguin camera

BBC Inside Science

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2013 27:56


Influenza causes up to five million cases of severe illness and half a million deaths globally every year. Yet, as Adam Rutherford finds out, our current vaccination strategy is a seasonal game of chance, based on guessing the strain that will appear next. Research published this week in Science Translational Medicine, by a team from Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, offers hope for a universal flu vaccine, based on newly discovered antibodies.Earlier this week, a game to help combat ash dieback was launched on Facebook, called Fraxinus. Reporter Gaia Vince looks at the growing trend for using games to solve scientific problems. Is this new way of gathering and analysing data changing the way science is done?Currently half of all clinical trials are not published worldwide. Adam talks to Ben Goldacre, author of Bad Pharma, about his new campaign 'AllTrials', which aims to change that.Finally this week, physicist Peter Barham shows us his instrument - a spy camera system that he's designed to recognise penguins.

Rationally Speaking
Rationally Speaking #81 - Live! Ben Goldacre on Bad Pharma

Rationally Speaking

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2013 63:23


"Medicine is broken," warns Ben Goldacre, the British physician, academic, author of the Guardian's Bad Science column. In this live episode of Rationally Speaking, Massimo and Julia interview Ben about his new book, Bad Pharma, and how the evidence about pharmaceutical drugs gets distorted due to shoddy regulations, missing data, and the influence of drug companies.

Szkeptikus Hangtár
Big Bad Pharma?

Szkeptikus Hangtár

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 18, 2012 110:34


Lakos András és Paál Tamás előadása a Klubban

tam big bad bad pharma
Pod Delusion Extra
Full Ben Goldacre Interview (from Episode 155)

Pod Delusion Extra

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2012


Liz's full interview with Ben Goldacre about Bad Pharma - from episode 155 of The Pod Delusion.

secularism ben goldacre bad pharma pod delusion ted cantle
Right Where You Are Sitting Now
Coincidence Control Network: File #035

Right Where You Are Sitting Now

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 27, 2012 82:39


This Week: Pre-Italy Italian Pyramids, Anti-Blasphemy Laws Coming Soon, Free the old!, Robot Cancer Ass-Snakes, Nader Savers, Dawn of the Zombie Bees, Castration ftw!, Free Gary Johson...sort of, Bad Pharma, Ornette Coleman, and Pure Pwnage: Teh Movie. Personnel –   Joe Nolan, Nicholas Pell, and Ken Eakins [powerpress] Links Etruscan Pyramids Found in Italy - Link Anti-Blasphemy Laws Coming Soon to a Country Near You - Link Free the Old! - Link Science News: Robot Snakes to Fight Cancer, through...your...ass! - Link Nader Calls Obama a “War Criminal” - Link Dawn of the Zombie Bees Link Want to live longer? Get Castrated! - Link Gary Johnson Files Lawsuit to Get Into Debates - Link Bad Pharma! Book preview/recommend from Boing-Boing Link Pure Pwnage: Teh Movie - Link Movie: Ornette Coleman: Made in America Link Interludes Biosphere