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Following from the discussion on Vitamin supliments and Ben Goldacre's brillant book Bad Science there was the following comment.

I think it should be mandatory reading before anyone is allowed loose on the Internet unsupervised.

So what else should be on the reading list before people are allowed loose on the internet?


 
Posted : 20/08/2012 3:24 pm
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the bible


 
Posted : 20/08/2012 3:25 pm
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Roger Red Hat and Billy Blue Hat.


 
Posted : 20/08/2012 3:26 pm
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Cannery Row - Steinbeck


 
Posted : 20/08/2012 3:29 pm
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I wonder who made such a wise and insightful comment?

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Posted : 20/08/2012 3:30 pm
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Plato's Republic


 
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Billy goats gruff

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Posted : 20/08/2012 3:31 pm
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Posted : 20/08/2012 3:31 pm
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Bill Bryson's "A Short History Of Nearly Everything"

Its by no means exhaustive, or particularly indepth but as a whistlestop tour of science and how we got to where we are today its pretty much indespensible


 
Posted : 20/08/2012 3:33 pm
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Oxford A-Z of Grammar and Punctuation
John Seely
OUP Oxford
ISBN 0199564671

word.


 
Posted : 20/08/2012 3:37 pm
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The Badger thread.


 
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link please drac. thank you please


 
Posted : 20/08/2012 3:39 pm
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The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins
Bad Science, Ben Goldacre
The Hidden Persuaders, Vance Packard


 
Posted : 20/08/2012 3:47 pm
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Philly-pops, here you go...

http://www.lost-soul.co.uk/drac/Singletrack%20-%20Mountain%20Bike%20Magazine.htm


 
Posted : 20/08/2012 3:49 pm
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All of snopes.com


 
Posted : 20/08/2012 3:50 pm
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A story involving a burglar being pwned with a set of bombers


 
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Billy Piper - My ginger hell


 
Posted : 20/08/2012 3:51 pm
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@lsd,
you may have a point, spelling, punctuation and grammar all seemed to take a step backwards when the internet was adopted en masse.
in my opinion of course, it could just be a coincidence


 
Posted : 20/08/2012 4:14 pm
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www.thingsmygirlfriendandihavearguedabout.com

^^ one of my very favourites.


 
Posted : 20/08/2012 4:18 pm
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wikipedia


 
Posted : 20/08/2012 4:19 pm
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[url= http://www.lost-soul.co.uk/drac/Singletrack%20-%20Mountain%20Bike%20Magazine.htm ]The Badger Thread[/url]


 
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That badger thread is a very entertaining read.
When threads around here go like that they get rapidly closed or removed.
I actually tried using the search function the other day to look for closed threads but it wasn't possible. 😀


 
Posted : 20/08/2012 4:56 pm
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If the Badger thread is in then surely it has to be joined by 'The Picolax' thread.


 
Posted : 20/08/2012 5:18 pm
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Nah the picolax thread was never funny.


 
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I never read the plane on a conveyour belt thread. Should I?


 
Posted : 20/08/2012 5:34 pm
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Me; conquests and my beautiful Schlong by Mark Horowitz.

"A riverting read. You wont be able to put it down (as your hand will be stuck to the pages)" - Ian Miller. The Sunday Times.


 
Posted : 20/08/2012 5:39 pm
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I read that wrong and thought Adam Horowitz from the Beastie Boys had written a book ! That was disappointing...


 
Posted : 20/08/2012 5:50 pm
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Hora is it a pop up book perhaps ?


 
Posted : 20/08/2012 6:07 pm
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+1 Oxford English Grammar Dictionary
but I think it needs to be accompanied with the OED


 
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http://textfromdog.tumblr.com/

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can i fit it

old bikemagic thread, going waaaaaaaaaaaaaay back might be lost to the ages

also, some threads on some ginger dan jones bloke taking pics of his "himself" while out riding and sending to forum users

is the badger thread posted edited? im sure i posted in it


 
Posted : 20/08/2012 7:08 pm
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old bikemagic thread, going waaaaaaaaaaaaaay back might be lost to the ages

If we're talking BikeMagic - Emily Green.

🙂


 
Posted : 20/08/2012 7:10 pm
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goes without saying 😆


 
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*some may know it by another name 😯

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can someone give an outline/context to The Badger thread as the link in the post has long since gone and I think it's needed to understand what the arguement is about?


 
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Kamasutra


 
Posted : 20/08/2012 7:23 pm
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this book has to have the most mentalist, jaw dropping twist in the histoy of mankind, a real 'Sixth sense' "WTF! how did i not see that coming"

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Just reading The Badger thread; oh my, what fun, I'd totally forgotten that! So many names from the past there. 😆
Oh, what fun we had in those days... :mrgreen:


 
Posted : 20/08/2012 8:03 pm
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http://www.withouthotair.com/

Sustainable energy - without the hot air........ 😉


 
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this book has to have the most mentalist, jaw dropping twist in the histoy of mankind, a real 'Sixth sense' "WTF! how did i not see that coming"

If that's the one I think it is, I saw the 'twist' coming in the first couple of chapters, and was disappointed to be proved right. And I'm really bad at seeing twists coming, generally.


 
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark - Carl Sagan


 
Posted : 20/08/2012 10:30 pm
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Reading, I would certainly recommend reading articles to the end and digesting what they say before lighting the fuse. (But not reading the Daily Fail)


 
Posted : 20/08/2012 10:33 pm

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