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Doctor, nerd cheerleader, Bad Science person, stats geek, procrastinator. Currently an academic at CEBM in Oxford ben@badscience.net

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Joined June 2007
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  1. 22 hours ago

    This variety of quince seems to be named after an investigative journalist.

    19 retweets 72 likes
  2. Aug 13

    This footnote by is my favourite outside of a Discworld novel.

    110 retweets 255 likes
  3. Aug 12

    Petition to remove tutor convicted of violently assaulting his student girlfriend. Bizarre this is needed

    could you share the petition to get him removed with immediate effect?
    104 retweets 54 likes
  4. Aug 12

    Stay safe everyone at , if this is how the University handles one violent lecturer there may be others.

    201 retweets 81 likes
  5. Aug 12

    If you tell people they're getting a bad savings deal, they move accounts. Nice, from my friend Stefan at

    7 retweets 17 likes
  6. Aug 12

    Sigh.

    Spot the difference: Results of our Cochrane Skin Group Review on Sun Protection & Cancer VS Dailymail Headline
    50 retweets 52 likes
  7. Aug 11

    Observational epidemiologists! Social psychologists! Cut out the middle man, don't bother collecting data, use this.

    Draw your data, then export it as a CSV: (via )
    36 retweets 58 likes
  8. Aug 11

    Epic paper draft sent to co-authors. Victory is mine... for now.

    2 retweets 27 likes
  9. Aug 10

    Bad pharma and the canary in the coalmine for problems in modern medicine. Credit:

    21 retweets 29 likes
  10. Aug 10

    Oh yes, lots of fun analytics coming.

    Had the opportunity to road test updates on .net today! All v exciting! this is for you!! 💚💻📈📉📊
    3 retweets 8 likes
  11. Aug 10

    Hebocon. Deliberately crap robot fighting. (I'm so sad to have missed EMF camp this year)

    19 retweets 26 likes
  12. Aug 10

    Amazing piece. If you allow, encourage, and impose new building, people get homes. If not, rich and old get richer.

    Why did London's house prices grow 10 times faster than Tokyo? Or SF 5 times faster? By
    69 retweets 65 likes
  13. Aug 10

    This post by on grammar schools is really good. Sad there aren't more explainer nerds in the media.

    150 retweets 119 likes
  14. Aug 10

    If your party supported huge growing inequality in income and wealth, then expect trouble, riots, splits, dissent.

    So anyway I wrote this
    19 retweets 21 likes
  15. Aug 10

    I'm a massive fan of swearing but even I don't think this is impressive in context, esp when antisocial behav charge

    Judge calls defendant a "c**t".
    14 retweets 19 likes
  16. Aug 10

    Text analysis of Trump's tweets, shows he only writes the angrier, madder, Android half. Glorious data analytics.

    129 retweets 93 likes
  17. Aug 10

    Is there a secondary market in political bets? If I bet on Ryan for president at 200:1, and now it's 50:1, can I sell for a 4-fold profit?

    3 retweets 23 likes
  18. Aug 10

    A&E doctors recruitment crisis. And yet our Health Secretary is driving junior doctors away. Not the best strategy.

    77 retweets 46 likes
  19. Aug 10

    But when something is so obviously bollocks, arguments won't change anything. Vit pills are plausible, so worth it.

    Well - for one, people who might be duped out of money for a useless treatment, or risk burns or infections….
    9 retweets 10 likes
  20. Aug 10

    Cupping feels like one of those things where it's so obviously bollocks you wonder why people even bother debunking it. Who benefits?

    111 retweets 241 likes

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