October 17, 2012
Consenting intellectual S&M activity
That’s how Ben Goldacre described the process of criticism and debate that’s fundamental to science, at a TED talk last year. At this time of year we expose a lot of innocent young students to this process: yesterday it was the turn of statistical consulting course, next month it’s BSc(Hons) and MSc research projects, and then the PhD students.
Here’s Ben Goldacre’s whole talk
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Disappointingly the video stops a bit before the talk ends. Is there a link to the “full” talk please?
12 years ago
It plays to the end for me, but a link is http://on.ted.com/Goldacre (which you can get from the Share button)
12 years ago