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507whistleblowers</a> (1) 508</li> 509 </ul> 510 511</div> 512 513 <div id="content"> 514 <div class="padded"> 515 516 517 <div class="post-3498 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-alltrials-campaign category-publication-bias" id="post-3498"> 518 <h2><a href="https://www.badscience.net/2017/12/evidence-to-house-of-commons-sci-tech-select-committee-on-research-integrity/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Evidence to House of Commons Sci Tech Select Committee on Research Integrity">Evidence to House of Commons Sci Tech Select Committee on Research Integrity</a></h2> 519 <p class="meta"> 520 December 5th, 2017 by Ben Goldacre 521 in <a href="https://www.badscience.net/category/alltrials-campaign/" rel="category tag">alltrials campaign</a>, <a href="https://www.badscience.net/category/publication-bias/" rel="category tag">publication bias</a> | <a href="https://www.badscience.net/2017/12/evidence-to-house-of-commons-sci-tech-select-committee-on-research-integrity/#respond">No Comments »</a> </p> 522 <div class="entry"> 523 <p>Sorry not to be in regular blogging mode at the moment. Here’s a video of our evidence session to parliament, where they are running an inquiry into research integrity. I think clinical trials are the best possible way to approach this issue. Lots of things in “research integrity” are hard to capture in hard logical rules, so you end up with waffly “concordats” and rules that are applied inconsistently. With clinical trials you can make clear rules, you can measure compliance, and you can enforce compliance. There is lots of chat about this in the video below from 17:37 with me, Simon <a href="https://www.badscience.net/2017/12/evidence-to-house-of-commons-sci-tech-select-committee-on-research-integrity/#more-3498" class="more-link">Read the rest of this entry »</a></p> 524 </div> 525 </div> 526 527 528 <div class="post-3485 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized" id="post-3485"> 529 <h2><a href="https://www.badscience.net/2017/07/how-do-the-worlds-biggest-drug-companies-compare-in-their-transparency-commitments/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to How do the world’s biggest drug companies compare, in their transparency commitments?">How do the world’s biggest drug companies compare, in their transparency commitments?</a></h2> 530 <p class="meta"> 531 July 27th, 2017 by Ben Goldacre 532 in <a href="https://www.badscience.net/category/uncategorized/" rel="category tag">bad science</a> | <a href="https://www.badscience.net/2017/07/how-do-the-worlds-biggest-drug-companies-compare-in-their-transparency-commitments/#respond">No Comments »</a> </p> 533 <div class="entry"> 534 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://www.bmj.com/content/358/bmj.j3334"><img decoding="async" class="left wp-image-3486" src="http://www.badscience.net/wp-content/uploads/Screen-Shot-2017-07-26-at-17.19.36-251x300.png" alt="" width="100" height="120" srcset="https://www.badscience.net/wp-content/uploads/Screen-Shot-2017-07-26-at-17.19.36-251x300.png 251w, https://www.badscience.net/wp-content/uploads/Screen-Shot-2017-07-26-at-17.19.36-768x919.png 768w, https://www.badscience.net/wp-content/uploads/Screen-Shot-2017-07-26-at-17.19.36-856x1024.png 856w, https://www.badscience.net/wp-content/uploads/Screen-Shot-2017-07-26-at-17.19.36.png 1530w" sizes="(max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px" /></a>Hereâs a <a href="http://www.bmj.com/content/358/bmj.j3334">paper</a>, and associated </span><a href="http://policyaudit.alltrials.net/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">website</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, that we launch today: we have assessed, and then ranked, all the biggest drug companies in the world, to compare their public commitments on trials transparency. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Regular readers will be familiar with this <a href="http://www.alltrials.net">ongoing battle</a>. In medicine we use the results of clinical trials to make informed treatments about which treatments work best; but the results of clinical trials are being routinely and legally withheld from doctors, researchers, and patients. This is a problem for industry sponsored trials, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">and</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for trials funded by governments and charities.</span></p> 535<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So what did we <a href="http://www.bmj.com/content/358/bmj.j3334">find</a>? The results on the individual companies are important, but we also came across some fascinating patterns. While companies superficially have commitments to register and report clinical trials, in reality, there are often huge gaps in their policies, with many failing to include past trials (trials on the medicines we use today) and trials on off-label uses or unlicensed medicines, which are both important. We also found a huge </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">range</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of commitments, which is exactly what audits are good for: identify whoâs doing well, and whoâs doing badly, so that everyone can learn from the best players. Lastly, as we went along we collected some fascinating examples of problematic policies, ambiguous language, inconsistent commitments, odd exclusions, and so on. </span></p> 536<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Overall this audit was a huge project, and we hope it will be widely used. You can see which companies are the best, and the worst. If youâre a researcher trying to get information on a trial from a company, you can </span><a href="http://policyaudit.alltrials.net/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
536use</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> this to determine whether a company are breaching their commitments. If youâre an ethical investor (at the </span><a href="http://www.alltrials.net/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">AllTrials</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> campaign we have a network of dozens, covering â¬3.5t trillion of investments) you can </span><a href="http://policyaudit.alltrials.net/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">use</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> this to guide your activist investment choices. </span></p> 537<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The full methods and results can be read, for free, in the <a href="http://www.bmj.com/content/358/bmj.j3334">paper</a>. But weâve also built a nice interactive </span><a href="http://policyaudit.alltrials.net/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">website</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> with </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.mysociety.org/">mySociety</a> (coming soon)</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to make the data more accessible. We think this is an important aspect of communicating results and making them useful, and used, and weâre keen for feedback on the site.</span></p> 538<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Coming next, we have ranked the policies of non-industry trial funders, and that paper will land shortly. We also have some great new and improved projects launching soon where we track the </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">performance</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of institutions, rather than their promises: the proportion of their completed trials for which they have shared results. Meanwhile, you can read more about the battle for unreported clinical trials at </span><a href="http://alltrials.net/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">AllTrials.net</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p> 539<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Onward!</span></p> 540 </div> 541 </div> 542 543 544 <div class="post-3481 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized category-publication-bias" id="post-3481"> 545 <h2><a href="https://www.badscience.net/2017/07/meaningful-transparency-commitments-the-who-joint-statement-from-trial-funders/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Meaningful Transparency Commitments: the WHO Joint Statement from Trial Funders">Meaningful Transparency Commitments: the WHO Joint Statement from Trial Funders</a></h2> 546 <p class="meta"> 547 July 26th, 2017 by Ben Goldacre 548 in <a href="https://www.badscience.net/category/uncategorized/" rel="category tag">bad science</a>, <a href="https://www.badscience.net/category/publication-bias/" rel="category tag">publication bias</a> | <a href="https://www.badscience.net/2017/07/meaningful-transparency-commitments-the-who-joint-statement-from-trial-funders/#respond">No Comments »</a> </p> 549 <div class="entry"> 550 <p><a href="http://www.bmj.com/content/357/bmj.j2816.full?ijkey=SDvMMYZfdO04E&keytype=ref&siteid=bmjjournals"><img decoding="async" class="right wp-image-3482" src="http://www.badscience.net/wp-content/uploads/Screen-Shot-2017-07-26-at-17.05.32-214x300.png" alt="" width="111" height="156" srcset="https://www.badscience.net/wp-content/uploads/Screen-Shot-2017-07-26-at-17.05.32-214x300.png 214w, https://www.badscience.net/wp-content/uploads/Screen-Shot-2017-07-26-at-17.05.32-768x1077.png 768w, https://www.badscience.net/wp-content/uploads/Screen-Shot-2017-07-26-at-17.05.32-730x1024.png 730w, https://www.badscience.net/wp-content/uploads/Screen-Shot-2017-07-26-at-17.05.32.png 1252w" sizes="(max-width: 111px) 100vw, 111px" /></a></p> 551<p>By now I hope you all know about the ongoing global scandal of clinical trial results being left unpublished, and of course our <a href="http://www.alltrials.net">AllTrials campaign</a>. Doctors, researchers, and patients cannot make truly informed choices about which treatments work best if they don’t have access to all the trial results. Earlier this year, I helped out with a World Health Organisation project to get non-industry clinical trial funders signed up to making better policies on transparency. This BMJ editorial (sorry, I’m late posting it, published last month!) describes the new commitments, and why this commitment is more convincing than previous vaguer statements. <a href="https://www.badscience.net/2017/07/meaningful-transparency-commitments-the-who-joint-statement-from-trial-funders/#more-3481" class="more-link">Read the rest of this entry »</a></p> 552 </div> 553 </div> 554 555 556 <div class="post-3472 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized" id="post-3472"> 557 <h2><a href="https://www.badscience.net/2017/02/how-many-epidemiologists-does-it-take-to-change-a-lightbulb/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to How many epidemiologists does it take to change a lightbulb?">How many epidemiologists does it take to change a lightbulb?</a></h2> 558 <p class="meta"> 559 February 1st, 2017 by Ben Goldacre 560 in <a href="https://www.badscience.net/category/uncategorized/" rel="category tag">bad science</a>
560 | <a href="https://www.badscience.net/2017/02/how-many-epidemiologists-does-it-take-to-change-a-lightbulb/#respond">No Comments »</a> </p> 561 <div class="entry"> 562 <p>Robin Ince just asked if I know any <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology">epidemiologist</a> lightbulb jokes. I wrote this for him.</p> 563<blockquote><p><em>How many epidemiologists does it take to change a lightbulb?</em></p> 564<p>Weâve found 12,000 switches hidden around the house. Some of them turn this lightbulb on, some of them donât; some of them only work sometimes; and some of them work sometimes, but twenty years after you flick them. Some of the switches only work, sometimes, twenty years later, if one of the other switches is flicked too (and at the right time). In any case the wiringâs rusty, everythingâs completely different in the house next door, and by the way there are lots of people selling spare bulbs who tell lies about houses, switches, and fingers.</p> 565<p>We can change the lightbulb, but Iâm not sure thatâll stop you dying from cancer in this metaphor.</p></blockquote> 566 </div> 567 </div> 568 569 570 <div class="post-3463 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized" id="post-3463"> 571 <h2><a href="https://www.badscience.net/2016/10/transparency-beyond-publication-bias-a-video-of-my-super-speedy-talk-at-ije/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to “Transparency, Beyond Publication Bias”. A video of my super-speedy talk at IJE.">“Transparency, Beyond Publication Bias”. A video of my super-speedy talk at IJE.</a></h2> 572 <p class="meta"> 573 October 11th, 2016 by Ben Goldacre 574 in <a href="https://www.badscience.net/category/uncategorized/" rel="category tag">bad science</a> | <a href="https://www.badscience.net/2016/10/transparency-beyond-publication-bias-a-video-of-my-super-speedy-talk-at-ije/#respond">No Comments »</a> </p> 575 <div class="entry"> 576 <p>People often talk about “trials transparency” as if this means “all trials must be published in an academic journal”. In reality, true transparency goes much further than this. We need <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_study_report">Clinical Study Reports</a>, and individual patient data, of course. But we also need the <a href="http://www.badscience.net/2016/09/taking-transparency-beyond-results-ethics-committees-must-work-in-the-open/">consent forms</a>, so we can see what patients were told. We need the <a href="http://www.bmj.com/content/352/bmj.i886">analytic</a> <a href="http://www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h4596/rr-55">code</a>, so we can see exactly how the data were analysed. We need access to <a href="http://compare-trials.org/">post-publication peer review</a>, so we can see what design flaws others have identified. And we don’t just need these things to be publicly available, in some form or another: we ideally need them to be available as <a href="http://opendatahandbook.org/guide/en/what-is-open-data/">open data</a>, freely shareable and re-usable, which is a very different kettle of ballpark. And then, of course, we need this data to be used, which means we need to think about <a href="http://www.ebmdatalab.net">building tools</a> that make it <a href="http://www.OpenTrials.net">useful</a>. Finally, we can’t just whine about the world not being as we would wish it to be, or write academic papers describing the problem: we need a <a href="http://www.badscience.net/2015/07/fixing-flaws-in-science-must-be-professionalised-by-me-in-j-clin-epi/">practical</a> theory of change, and a set of clear strategies that will deliver greater transparency.  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqJ7QMTSKME">This</a> is my talk at the International Journal of Epidemiology <a href="http://www.badscience.net/2016/10/you-should-watch-this-entire-day-of-the-ije-conference/">Conference</a>, 2016. It takes 29 minutes of your life, at speed: I hope you find it useful.</p> 577<p> </p> 578<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqJ7QMTSKME" class="autohyperlink">www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqJ7QMTSKME</a></p> 579 </div> 580 </div> 581 582 583 <div class="post-3456 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized" id="post-3456"> 584 <h2><a href="https://www.badscience.net/2016/10/you-should-watch-this-entire-day-of-the-ije-conference/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to You should totally watch this entire day of the IJE conference">You should totally watch this entire day of the IJE conference</a></h2> 585 <p class="meta"> 586 October 7th, 2016 by Ben Goldacre 587 in <a href="https://www.badscience.net/category/uncategorized/" rel="category tag">bad science</a>
587 | <a href="https://www.badscience.net/2016/10/you-should-watch-this-entire-day-of-the-ije-conference/#respond">No Comments »</a> </p> 588 <div class="entry"> 589 <p>Today marks the end of an era. The International Journal of Epidemiology used to be a typical hotchpotch of isolated papers on worthy subjects. Occasionally, some were interesting, or related to your field. Under Shah Ebrahim and George Davey-Smith it became like nothing else: an epidemiology journal you’d happily subscribe to with your own money, and read in the bath. <a href="https://www.badscience.net/2016/10/you-should-watch-this-entire-day-of-the-ije-conference/#more-3456" class="more-link">Read the rest of this entry »</a></p> 590 </div> 591 </div> 592 593 594 <div class="post-3445 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized" id="post-3445"> 595 <h2><a href="https://www.badscience.net/2016/10/an-audio-interview-with-the-conversation-on-smashing-the-walls-of-the-ivory-tower/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to An audio interview with The Conversation, on smashing the walls of the Ivory Tower">An audio interview with The Conversation, on smashing the walls of the Ivory Tower</a></h2> 596 <p class="meta"> 597 October 3rd, 2016 by Ben Goldacre 598 in <a href="https://www.badscience.net/category/uncategorized/" rel="category tag">bad science</a> | <a href="https://www.badscience.net/2016/10/an-audio-interview-with-the-conversation-on-smashing-the-walls-of-the-ivory-tower/#respond">No Comments »</a> </p> 599 <div class="entry"> 600 <p>The Conversation is a great media outlet, because it’s run by academic nerds, but made for everyone. I had a nice time chatting with them last week: we discussed transparency, data sharing, statins, research integrity, risk communication, culture shift, academic activism, and why we should kick through the walls of the ivory tower. Caution: contains nerds!</p> 601<p><a href="http://theconversation.com/speaking-with-bad-pharma-author-ben-goldacre-about-how-bad-research-hurts-us-all-65800" class="autohyperlink">theconversation.com/speaking-with-bad-pharma-author-ben-goldacre-about-how-bad-research-hurts-us-all-65800</a></p> 602 </div> 603 </div> 604 605 606 <div class="post-3439 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized" id="post-3439"> 607 <h2><a href="https://www.badscience.net/2016/09/eteplirsen-anecdote-data-surrogate-outcomes-and-the-fda/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Sarepta, eteplirsen: anecdote, data, surrogate outcomes, and the FDA">Sarepta, eteplirsen: anecdote, data, surrogate outcomes, and the FDA</a></h2> 608 <p class="meta"> 609 September 30th, 2016 by Ben Goldacre 610 in <a href="https://www.badscience.net/category/uncategorized/" rel="category tag">bad science</a> | <a href="https://www.badscience.net/2016/09/eteplirsen-anecdote-data-surrogate-outcomes-and-the-fda/#comments">5 Comments »</a> </p> 611 <div class="entry"> 612 <p>The Duchenne’s treatment made by Sarepta (eteplirsen) has been <a href="https://www.statnews.com/2016/09/28/fda-drug-approval-duchenne/">in the news</a> this week, as a troubling example of the FDA <a href="https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2016/09/19/fda-sarepta-precedent/">lowering its bar</a> for approval of new medicines. The FDA expert advisory panel decided <a href="https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2016/04/25/fda-panel-sarepta-muscular-dystrophy/">not to approve</a> this treatment, because the evidence for any benefit is weak; but there was extensive lobbying from <a href="https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2015/11/19/pharmalot-duchenne-advocacy-fda/">well-organised patients</a> and, eventually, the FDA <a href="https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2016/09/19/sarepta-wins-dmd-drug-approval/">overturned</a> the opinion of its own panel. There have been calls for <a href="http://retractionwatch.com/2016/09/21/amid-controversial-sarepta-approval-decision-fda-head-calls-for-key-study-retraction/">paper retractions</a>, and so on.</p> 613<p>This is not the first time we’ve seen peculiar activity around the treatment. <a href="https://www.badscience.net/2016/09/eteplirsen-anecdote-data-surrogate-outcomes-and-the-fda/#more-3439" class="more-link">Read the rest of this entry »</a></p> 614 </div> 615 </div> 616 617 618 <div class="post-3437 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized" id="post-3437"> 619 <h2><a href="https://www.badscience.net/2016/09/the-cancer-drugs-fund-is-producing-dangerous-bad-data-randomise-everyone-everywhere/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to The Cancer Drugs Fund is producing dangerous, bad data: randomise everyone, everywhere!">The Cancer Drugs Fund is producing dangerous, bad data: randomise everyone, everywhere!</a></h2> 620 <p class="meta"> 621 September 28th, 2016 by Ben Goldacre 622 in <a href="https://www.badscience.net/category/uncategorized/" rel="category tag">bad science</a>
622 | <a href="https://www.badscience.net/2016/09/the-cancer-drugs-fund-is-producing-dangerous-bad-data-randomise-everyone-everywhere/#comments">6 Comments »</a> </p> 623 <div class="entry"> 624 <p>There are recurring howls in my work. One of them is this: in general, if you don’t know which intervention works best, then you should randomise everyone, everywhere. This is for good reason: uncertainty costs lives, through sub-optimal treatment. Wherever randomised trials are the right approach, you should embed them in routine clinical care.</p> 625<p>This is an argument I’ve made, with colleagues, in endless different places. New diabetes drugs are approved with woeful data, small numbers of patients in trials that only measure blood tests, rather than real-world outcomes such as heart attack, renal failure, or death: so <a href="http://www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h5260">let’s roll out new diabetes treatments</a> in the NHS through randomised trials. We rely on observational studies to establish whether Tamiflu reduces complications of pneumonia: that’s silly, <a href="http://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h3397.full?ijkey=2mYjSgnGBlAGkOP&keytype=ref">we can do trials</a>, and we should. Statin treatment regimes in widespread use have <a href="http://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g4745.full?ijkey=SNRrt9MXvaQ6FWr&keytype=ref">never been compared head-to-head</a>, using real-world outcomes such as heart attack, stroke, and death: so <a href="http://www.bmj.com/content/344/bmj.e55?ijkey=7fcf553df85463ebcd9c7f454e4209c74890df7b&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha">let’s embed randomised trials</a> as cheaply as possible in routine clinical care (we’ve <a href="http://www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/hta/volume-18/issue-43#abstract">done two pilots</a>, to document the barriers).</p> 626<p>This week a dozen colleagues and I published yet another application of this basic, simple principle, as <a href="http://www.bmj.com/content/354/bmj.i5090.full?ijkey=fmLIX52Liz2ckrL&keytype=ref">an editorial in the BMJ</a>. The Cancer Drugs Fund is being marketed as a way to generate new knowledge: but in reality, the data that will be collected is weak, <a href="https://www.badscience.net/2016/09/the-cancer-drugs-fund-is-producing-dangerous-bad-data-randomise-everyone-everywhere/#more-3437" class="more-link">Read the rest of this entry »</a></p> 627 </div> 628 </div> 629 630 631 <div class="post-3433 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized" id="post-3433"> 632 <h2><a href="https://www.badscience.net/2016/09/taking-transparency-beyond-results-ethics-committees-must-work-in-the-open/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Taking transparency beyond results: ethics committees must work in the open">Taking transparency beyond results: ethics committees must work in the open</a></h2> 633 <p class="meta"> 634 September 23rd, 2016 by Ben Goldacre 635 in <a href="https://www.badscience.net/category/uncategorized/" rel="category tag">bad science</a> | <a href="https://www.badscience.net/2016/09/taking-transparency-beyond-results-ethics-committees-must-work-in-the-open/#comments">2 Comments »</a> </p> 636 <div class="entry"> 637 <p>Here’s a <a href="http://www.bmj.com/content/354/bmj.i4626.full?ijkey=USiz8fJ15zKW3nB&keytype=ref">useful paper</a> we’ve just published in the BMJ, documenting problems in transparency around approval processes for randomised trials. There’s a basic rule in clinical research: you’re only supposed to do a trial comparing two treatments when you really don’t know which one is best, otherwise you’d be knowingly randomising half your participants to an inferior treatment. Despite this, it’s <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2011.1209">already known</a> that trials are sometimes conducted where one group get a substandard treatment.</p> 638<p>We wanted to find out how ethics committees come to approve such trials. <a href="https://www.badscience.net/2016/09/taking-transparency-beyond-results-ethics-committees-must-work-in-the-open/#more-3433" class="more-link">Read the rest of this entry »</a></p> 639 </div> 640 </div> 641 642 643 <div class="navigation"> 644 <span class="nextpost"><a href="https://www.badscience.net/page/2/" >« Older Entries</a></span> 645 <span class="prevpost"></span> 646 </div> 647 648 </div> 649 650 </div> 651 <div id="sidebar_right"> 652 <div class="padded"> 653 654 <h2>Stuff</h2> 655 <ul class="blog_pages"> 656 <li class="page_item page-item-3524"><a href="https://www.badscience.net/where-did-you-go-my-inaugural-professorial-lecture-at-oxford/">“Where did you go?” My Inaugural Professorial Lecture at Oxford!</a></li> 657<li class="page_item page-item-4 page_item_has_children"><a href="https://www.badscience.net/about-dr-ben-goldacre/">About Dr Ben Goldacre</a> 658<ul class='children'> 659 <li class="page_item page-item-858"><a href="https://www.badscience.net/about-dr-ben-goldacre/upcoming-talks-readings-parties/">… and upcoming public talks</a></li> 660 <li class="page_item page-item-2844"><a href="https://www.badscience.net/about-dr-ben-goldacre/speaking-engagements/">… book me to speak</a></li> 661 <li class="page_item page-item-967"><a href="https://www.badscience.net/about-dr-ben-goldacre/twitter/">— Twitter</a></li> 662</ul> 663</li> 664<li class="page_item page-item-2426 page_item_has_children"><a href="https://www.badscience.net/books/">Books</a> 665<ul class='children'> 666 <li class="page_item page-item-2433"><a href="https://www.badscience.net/books/bad-pharma/">… Bad Pharma</a></li> 667 <li class="page_item page-item-2431"><a href="https://www.badscience.net/books/bad-science/">… Bad Science</a></li> 668</ul> 669</li> 670<li class="page_item page-item-7 page_item_has_children"><a href="https://www.badscience.net/how-to-use-this-website/">
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