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December 17, 2004
Bad Science
Amongst several things I've been pondering for -- seemingly -- ever; how might one go about turning explicitly bad science into a TV show? I have a growing collection of books detailing statistical abuses and misconceptions, I've been reading Bob Park for years, and I find Ben Goldacre's stuff in the Guardian absolutely hilarious -- see especially his Bad Science Awards, which has all the makings of a book deal and so on. But I can't, for the life of me, work out how to make this into TV. And I bet I'm not the only one who's trying.
Comedy drama, perhaps? Following the fortunes of leading tech-transfer startup, "Bandwagon, Ltd."?
Actually, that's not a bad idea. Hmm...
Interesting read over at the Guardian, I’ll have to start buying a paper again.
As for the comedy idea, count me in, I’m happy to jump on ;-)
So this is where Kooij found it.
It was
‘O2 Contour Cream from Laboratoires Herzog ’ that boggled my mind: I thought everyone had heard about anti-oxidants being ‘good for you’. So rubbing O2 into your skin is … oxidizing, and that’s … also good for you? Right?
/me cries at the futility of it all
It sounds a bit like a format I wanted to see in the domain of logic, illustrating the history, theory and current practice of getting away with talking total bollocks. Three parts to the piece: (1) terrible stupidity resulted from the believing of this kind of bollocks back then; (2) this is why it’s bollocks; (3) so-and-so is trying it on again, let’s try to interview them. Topics to include such subtleties as the failure to distinguish between [no evidence of risk] and [evidence of no risk] when the truth is frequently [no risk of evidence].