I write about misuses of evidence in plenty of different spheres: scaremongering journalists, obvious quacks and naturopaths, and … - Ben Goldacre

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I write about misuses of evidence in plenty of different spheres: scaremongering journalists, obvious quacks and naturopaths, and flaws in the way that evidence is used in mainstream academia, medicine and in (government) policy. One of the things I always found interesting is the same tricks are used to distort medicine in all of those domains.

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