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Pink, Blue, and Bad Science

Posted by kdawson on from the drawing-conclusions-out-of-inappropriate-orifices dept.

DocDJ writes "Ben Goldacre writes an excellent column in The Guardian called Bad Science, which regularly demonstrates how poor the mainstream media are at reporting science. He recently pointed out the flaws in the reporting of research that purported to show the evolutionary basis of 'blue for boys, pink for girls'." Another Guardian writer, Zoe Williams, has an even more acerbic take on the research.

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  1. Re:Ben Goldacre's article is excellent by tehcyder · · Score: 0, Troll

    cowardly pulls out the race card on anything that looks into the differences between groups of people
    In the UK most intelligent people are not fundamentally racist, and therefore would agree with Ms Williams that pseudo-scientific research into proving the superiority of one race over another is simply a waste of time on principle, just as the attempt to prove sexist stereotypes is.

    Things might be different in other countries, of course.

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