Ben Goldacre: Using Benford's law, forensic statisticians can spot suspicious patterns in the raw numbers, and estimate the chances figures have been tampered with
Ben Goldacre: The same statistical errors – namely, ignoring the "difference in differences" – are appearing throughout the most prestigious journals in neuroscience
Ben Goldacre: Trials show that people who think they've done something healthy, even if they haven't, smoke more and believe they are invulnerable to diseases
Ben Goldacre: Bad science: Channel 4 reported that a study in the Lancet showed a new drug had reduced the symptoms of Duchenne's muscular dystrophy. Unfortunately, the study shows no such thing
Ben Goldacre: We need a badger cull trial held in the real world ... to give us answers that matter, on results we care about, with the intervention we're actually using
What eight years of writing the Bad Science column have taught me
Ben Goldacre: Pulling bad science apart is the best teaching gimmick I know for explaining how good science works