October 17, 2012

Consenting intellectual S&M activity

That’s how Ben Goldacre described the process of criticism and debate that’s fundamental to science, at a TED talk last year.  At this time of year we expose a lot of innocent young students to this process: yesterday it was the turn of statistical consulting course, next month it’s BSc(Hons) and MSc research projects, and then the PhD students.

Here’s Ben Goldacre’s whole talk

 

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Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »

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    Graham Harris

    Disappointingly the video stops a bit before the talk ends. Is there a link to the “full” talk please?

    12 years ago