Goldacre on "Bad Science"

Here is a talk by Ben Goldacre at a Pop!Tech conference held in Camden, Maine in October. He points out the simple idea of science: pose theories and criticize them. He points out that quacks and fanatics have no problem posing their own theories, but they adamantly refuse to put them to the test of criticism:



Sadly, we live in a "modern" world in which most people are still pre-modern, i.e. they reject science in favour of holding to pet theories which they refuse to question and which they defend viciously.