Ben Goldacre Battling bad science

Tom is battling lung cancer.

Brazil is battling recession and rising unemployment.

I have been battling a stubborn cold for the last three weeks.

The banks battling against a strong wind in the USA several years later.

Mexico is experiencing unprecedented violence as drug cartels are battling over distribution routes.

We will continue battling the military on this issue until reform occurs, she says.

President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua died in 2010 after battling a heart condition for months.

Two and a half years after his own diagnosis, Graham Abbott is still battling on.

Populations battling with disease lack the energy, productivity, or means to invest in their own future.

Various ethnic and religious groups, based in different regions, are battling for oil revenue and political clout.

The total cost of battling malaria in Africa would be around 2 to 3 billion per year.

Detail from The Warrior Fujiwara Hidesato Battling the Giant Centipede by woodblock artist Katsukawa, Shuntei, 1770 1820.

It begins in 1937, with Indiana battling the murderous ghost of Baron Seamus Seagrove III in Scotland.

Assad's troops have been battling rebels, many of them linked to al Qaida groups, in Safira for weeks.

Activists battling capital punishment have also found a platform in digital social media for exchanging ideas and circulating information.

Indeed, large scale corruption has become entrenched in the country s political system, with various oligarchic groups often battling each other.

Among the Greek public and in newsrooms around the world, people have struggled to remain calm, battling frustration and anxiety.

The images of US soldiers battling in Iraq have been supplemented by images of America s military delivering relief to disaster victims.

As a result, Egypt s power struggle will continue, with the junta no longer battling those in Tahrir Square, but political Islam.

Speaker Maseeh is a key ally of Maldives President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom, who is battling several charges of corruption against him.

In today s complex financial economies, representing workers interests is not so simple as battling with management for a bigger share of the pie.

It was on a day in April that Galeano died this year at the age of 74 after battling lung cancer for several months.

I think in general you're battling a very fundamental human tendency, which is to say, I'm here today, and so now is more important than later.

In Egypt, supporters of the democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood are still battling the army and security forces, which deposed him in July.

He has also been writing of his own personal experience, for the past five years, of battling HIV and non Hodgkin lymphoma, a type of blood cancer.

Allowing opium traffickers to operate with impunity gives them a free hand to raise money to pay for the arms and fighters battling the Afghan army and NATO forces.

Other options that the economists favored spending some of their 50 billion include providing micro nutrients to the world s hungry, establishing free trade, and battling malaria with mosquito nets and medication.

The disgruntled general, who has long standing ties to the type of jihadists that the United States is battling in Yemen, merely sought to settle a score with the president s family.

President Clinton has said that battling corruption is now Russia's priority and the Swiss prosecutor's office has expressed its readiness to make all materials in the Berezovsky case available to Russia.

Indeed, the Copenhagen Consensus experts discovered that for every dollar invested in Kyoto style battling climate change, we could do up to 120 times more good with in numerous other areas.

Colombian graduate student Diego Gomez, who is battling criminal charges that he violated copyright by sharing a thesis on the Internet, is likely to receive a verdict in the coming days.

Levanov went on to joke that demonstrators were battling an influenza epidemic, making light of that fact that many protesters wore hospital masks to disguise their identities and project an atmosphere of danger.

I don't sleep that much, and I've come to this thing about, like, not sleeping much as being a great virtue, after years of kind of battling it as being a terrible detriment, or something.

In a Facebook post, Leonid Volkov explained why he thought both the petition and the rally, though organized after the laws had been passed, still made sense and were important steps in battling against new repressive legislation.

Besides battling these more powerful Arab nationalists and Islamists, Arab liberals must deal with a wide range of issues, including the modernization or moderation of Islam, relations with the United States, the Arab Israeli conflict, and women s rights.

He remains immensely popular with rural voters and the urban poor, who comprise more than 60 of Thailand s electorate, but he has been battling a fervent Bangkok based insurrection against his rule by the intelligentsia and middle classes.

As Greece replaces Italy as the main European gateway for refugees fleeing their war torn homelands, the country is battling to cope with the huge influx of souls at a time when it doesn't have much to give.

Two weeks before her death, she had given a TEDxLAU talk entitled 4 lessons I learned while battling cancer in which she spoke about her story of being a person defined by cancer to becoming a more empowered one transcending the disease.

This would be easier, much less costly, and ultimately do far more good. Indeed, the Copenhagen Consensus experts discovered that for every dollar invested in Kyoto style battling climate change, we could do up to 120 times more good with in numerous other areas.

In today s complex financial economies, representing workers interests is not so simple as battling with management for a bigger share of the pie. Unions should instead negotiate with management the same way top executives do with their boards of directors when their complex compensation packages are worked out.

One of the skis just clipped a pressure ridge at the end of the runway, banking. I could see into the cockpit, Troy battling the controls, and he just took one hand off, reached back, flipped a switch on the roof of the cockpit, and it was the fasten seat belt sign you can see on the wall.

India s elections, conducted by the autonomous (and all powerful) Election Commission of India , are an extraordinary event, and not just because of their sheer scale. It takes the felling of a sizeable forest to furnish enough paper for 714 million ballots, and every election has at least one story of officers battling through snow or jungle, or traveling by elephant and camel, to ensure that the democratic wishes of remote constituents are duly recorded.