ben goldacre witters on and on and on about things that are too long to post on twitter and not clever enough to post on his main blog at www.badscience.net
Here's another perverse examples of how prohibition - which clearly doesn't work to prevent people taking drugs - comes into conflict with simple, sensible, harm reduction. These ecstasy pills contain lethal additives. But the BC police won't tell you what they look like.
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20120114/ecstasy-deaths-calgary-pmma-drugs-20120114/If that annoys you, or to put it another way, if you're baffled that governments around the world are blindly pursuing drug-control policies which demonstrably do not achieve the goal of abstinence, but do seem to create avoidable death and suffering, then think about giving these people some money: http://www.tdpf.org.uk/
I like stats. I'm a doctor. I write about dodgy scientific claims in my spare time.
This isn't my main blog. Find me here:
Blog:
www.badscience.net/
Book:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bad-Science-Ben-Goldacre/dp/000728487X/?tag=bs0b-21
Tweet:
www.twitter.com/bengoldacre
TED talk:
http://www.ted.com/talks/ben_goldacre_battling_bad_science.html
I like stats. I'm a doctor. I write about dodgy scientific claims in my spare time.
This isn't my main blog. Find me here:
Blog:
www.badscience.net/
Book:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bad-Science-Ben-Goldacre/dp/000728487X/?tag=bs0b-21
Tweet:
www.twitter.com/bengoldacre
TED talk:
http://www.ted.com/talks/ben_goldacre_battling_bad_science.html
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