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As someone who’s regularly frustrated by ‘scientists say…’ reports on BBC Breakfast, happening into a talk at OpenTech by Ben Goldacre was a pleasure and a revelation. Go, watch the video, and if you enjoy it, go buy the book ‘Bad Science’. That’s what I did, and I’m very happy I did. As someone pretty fluent in the scientific method and critical thinking, I found the examples really interesting, the encouragement to really analyse what’s said in the media motivating, and the realisation there are lots of other frustrated people out there utterly relieving.