Bad titles? Ben Goldacre surprised at new idea for the Times
December 17th, 2008Posted by Judith Townend in Newspapers, Online Journalism
Dr Ben Goldacre reports that the Times has launched a new feature called… ‘Bad Statistics’. It asks readers: ‘Send your bad statistics to badstats@thetimes.co.uk’.
Déjà vu?
‘Rip off’ one commenter writes below the first piece. Ben Goldacre of the Guardian’s ‘Bad Science’ column, despite heading his blog post ‘Rather brilliantly I have been plagiarised by the Times’, seems philosophical:
“Good for the cause though. And the bloke who writes it used to comment here. I hope it, er, gets better.”
Tags: bad science, bad statistics, badstats@thetimes.co.uk, Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, The Times, The Times Global Broadcasting Co Ltd
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