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Cultural Dwarfs

and Junk Journalism

Ben Goldacre, Quackbusting

and Corporate Science

Martin J Walker

Slingshot Publications

London 2008

Cultural Dwarfs and Junk Journalism

Ben Goldacre, Quackbusting

and Corporate Science

First Published January 2008

BM Box 8314,

London WC1N 3XX, England

Type set by Viviana D Guinarte

in Times New Roman & Verdana

Edited by: Rose Shepherd and Viviana D Guinarte

Cover Design by Andy Dark design@andydark.co.uk

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Written by Martin J Walker

Cultural Dwarfs and Junk Journalism:

Ben Goldacre, Quackbusting and Corporate Science.

1.Ben Goldacre 2. Corporate Science 3. Quackbusters

4. Pharmaceutical companies 5. Lobby Groups.

6. Journalism 7. The Guardian Newspaper

ISBN 10 0-9519646-9-0

ISBN 13 978-0-9519646-9-9

This book is given away as an e-book subject to the condition

that it shall not, as a whole, or in parts, by way of trade or other-

wise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without

the publisher’s prior consent in any form, with any cover, or any

layout, than which it is published in this Pdf, and without a simi-

lar condition being imposed upon the subsequent receiver.

Selected non-continuous pieces of the text may be quoted in

reviews and other works or campaigning leaflets and pamphlets

or on the internet.

You cannot hope to bribe or twist,

Thank God, the British Journalist,

For seeing what the man will do

Unbribed, there’s no occasion to. 1

Every journalist

who is not too stupid or too full of himself

to notice what is going on knows that what he

does is morally indefensible … 2

Health fraud activists tend not to be scientists them-

selves, but journalists, philosophy lecturers, sociolo-

gists and others in ‘soft’ disciplines.

They claim to be on the side of Science, but

when results appear which contradict their prejudices,

they try to ‘debunk’ them, heap abuse on them,

and finally simply ignore them. 3

What is true cannot be minted

into a falsehood, even by

the most distinguished professor. 4

1 Anon.

2 Malcolm, Janet. The Journalist and the Murderer . Bloomsbury. London 1991.

3 Adams, Jad. Dirty tricks to discredit alternative medicine. i to i , April-June 1994.

4 Samuel Hahnemann.

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