Computer Floss » Ben Goldacre http://computerfloss.com Delightful digital distractions in free/libre/open source software Mon, 11 Nov 2013 11:27:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.1 Doing the Rounds /2010/12/doing-the-rounds/ /2010/12/doing-the-rounds/#comments Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:10:06 +0000 http://computerfloss.wordpress.com/?p=407 (This is an old draft article that I rediscovered.) A while ago, while obtaining my regular fix of Ben Goldacre’s pronouncements over at the Bad Science blog, something Ben had had cause briefly to explain lodged into my mind. In a mere couple of sentences, Ben explained what a “grand round” is in the world […]

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]]> /2010/12/doing-the-rounds/feed/ 1 Reading List /2010/05/reading-list/ /2010/05/reading-list/#comments Mon, 03 May 2010 08:32:37 +0000 http://computerfloss.wordpress.com/?p=450 Some books/articles/websites etc. that I have enjoyed reading in the last few months (just to prove my interests do occasionally stretch beyond computers) and which I can recommend: Books Letters to a Young Contrarian (Christopher Hitchens). Just seeing the title of this book was enough by itself to compel me to buy it; memories of […]

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]]> /2010/05/reading-list/feed/ 1 How to Support English Libel Law Reform /2010/02/how-to-support-english-libel-law-reform/ /2010/02/how-to-support-english-libel-law-reform/#comments Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:24:57 +0000 http://computerfloss.wordpress.com/?p=349 Over on Richard Dawkins’s website a recent post contains the latest information from Simon Singh’s brave legal battle against medieval English libel laws (http://richarddawkins.net/articles/5069). He is currently being sued by the British Chiropractic Association (BCA) for daring to suggest that the evidence is far from sufficient to back up their claims that chiropractic can cure […]

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