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Dan Todman

Academic quality: appearance and reality

The Guardian's Ben Goldacre gets stuck in to 'no longer Dr' Gillian McKeith. I sometimes find Goldacre's writing in the Grauniad rather shrill, but in this longer piece he gives a great explanation for his anger and a definition of 'referenciness' worthy of Stephen Colbert. The dangers Goldacre identifies in those who seek to give the appearance of academic research without its substance apply across all fields.

Posted on Monday, February 12, 2007 at 4:07 AM 

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