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There's a book and UK newspaper column series called "bad science". It's not about people with good intentions failing. > Ben Goldacre’s wise and witty bestsel
by kingosticks 6y ago
There's a book and UK newspaper column series called "bad science". It's not about people with good intentions failing.
> Ben Goldacre’s wise and witty bestseller, shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, lifts the lid on quack doctors, flaky statistics, scaremongering journalists and evil pharmaceutical corporations.
> Full spleen and satire, Ben Goldacre takes us on a hilarious, invigorating and ultimately alarming journey through the bad science we are fed daily by hacks and quacks.
- lmilcin 6y agoFor any given term there is always somebody that will misuse it. Just because a book was written or somebody publishes article is not a proof. I find it useful to have separate terms for when somebody is incompetent (bad science) and when somebody intentionally misleads (quackery).
- kingosticks 6y agoSure, I didn't mean to imply it was proof one way or the other, just that it's not a universal thing. I've actually never heard the term "quackery" but I do like it.
- inimino 6y agoThere's also "pseudoscience". Unfortunately all too common in ML, where the ratio of published papers to genuine new developments is (charitably) at least 2:1.