Bad Science is really good at pointing out the nonsense in the unsupported dietary and medical advice that seems to be everywhere in the media now. There seems to be a huge market for any theory that mixes a few bits of knowledge or insight with a lot of prescriptive nonsense to create a bizarre new set of quasi-medical instructions. The Guardian’s own alternative health column is one of the worst offenders, sadly.

 I’d also like to see some discussion of  actual “scientist-produced” bad science. A fair number of experiments reported in the popular science press seem pretty dubious ethically and logically. I will collect some examples and post here.