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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: badscience</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/badscience.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2007-09-03T18:22:13+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>Imaginary numbers</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2007/Sep/3/bad/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2007-09-03T18:22:13+00:00</published><updated>2007-09-03T18:22:13+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2007/Sep/3/bad/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.badscience.net/?p=520#more-520"&gt;Imaginary numbers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
“We would like to back up our survey with an equation from an expert to work out which celebrity has the sexiest walk, with theory behind it”—Ben Goldacre provides inside information on how PR firms invent science to back up their campaigns.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/badscience"&gt;badscience&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ben-goldacre"&gt;ben-goldacre&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/pr"&gt;pr&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/science"&gt;science&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



</summary><category term="badscience"/><category term="ben-goldacre"/><category term="pr"/><category term="science"/></entry><entry><title>Wi-Fi Wants To Kill Your Children</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2007/May/26/badscience/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2007-05-26T22:12:37+00:00</published><updated>2007-05-26T22:12:37+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2007/May/26/badscience/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.badscience.net/?p=418"&gt;Wi-Fi Wants To Kill Your Children&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Ben Goldacre tears the ridiculous Panorama WiFi episode to pieces.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/badscience"&gt;badscience&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ben-goldacre"&gt;ben-goldacre&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/panorama"&gt;panorama&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/wifi"&gt;wifi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



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