According to Ben Goldacre, science reporting rarely contains any real information, it sets scientists up as authority figures and it confuses more than it informs. Ben Goldacre writes the Bad Science column for the British newspaper the Guardian. He explains why he thinks science reporting is so bad and what the effect is on the people who consume it.
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