Work out your mind
Work out your mind Ben Goldacre Thursday June 12, 2003 The Guardian Talk about bad science · Children are so sweet, so trusting – those pseudoscientists just can’t help but prey on them. A reader...
View ArticleSetting up camp in the healing field
Setting up camp in the healing field Ben Goldacre Thursday July 3, 2003 The Guardian · Doing a New Age Bad Science Glastonbury Special is a bit like shooting fish in a barrel. Which is not to say I’ve...
View ArticleAlternative medicine on the NHS?
Alternative medicine on the NHS? Ben Goldacre Thursday February 12, 2004 The Guardian · Well, last week’s chemicals with rude names certainly tapped a rich seam. There are some species names that Carl...
View ArticleBrain Gym, Anyone? I Need Teachers…
I wonder if anybody remembers Brain Gym? I wrote about them a couple of times in 2003 (links below). They’re a strange bunch who seem to get into lots of UK state schools at the taxpayers expense,...
View ArticleBrain Gym – Name & Shame
Ben Goldacre Saturday March 18, 2006 The Guardian While all the proper grown up public intellectuals like Rod Liddle were getting a bee in their bonnet about Creationism being taught in a handful of...
View ArticleSquabbles In Class
Ben Goldacre Saturday March 25, 2006 The Guardian Nothing prepared me for the outpouring of jaw-dropping stupidity that vomited forth from teachers when I wrote about Brain Gym last week. To recap:...
View ArticleA Brain Gym Article In The Guardian
Some of you will notice I’ve just gone into stealth mode briefly on a couple of previous articles. Shhh, there is no cause for alarm, more fun to come. In the meantime, here is a Brain Gym article in...
View ArticleDore – The Miracle Cure For Dyslexia
Ben Goldacre Saturday November 4, 2006 The Guardian Wouldn’t it be great if there really was an expensive proprietary cure for dyslexia? Oh hang on, there is: paint tycoon Wynford Dore has developed...
View ArticleBanging your head repeatedly against the brick wall of teachers’ stupidity...
Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday February 16 2008 As time passes, largely against my will, I have become a student of nonsense. More importantly, I’ve become interested in why some forms of nonsense...
View ArticleBBC Newsnight mine the Brain Gym comedy mountain
Newsnight do Brain Gym, and Paxman interviews the man who invented it. It’s comedy gold. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5rH7kDcFpc [/youtube]...
View ArticleKids who spot bullshit, and the adults who get upset about it
Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 28 May 2011 If you can tear yourself away from Ryan Giggs’ penis for just one moment, I have a different censorship story. Brain Gym is a schools program I’ve been...
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