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Safe Drinking
UK Alcohol guidelines recommend drinking less 鈥� but do the numbers support them?
Mobiles or lightbulbs
Are there more mobile phones than lightbulbs in Uganda? And thyroid cancer in Fukushima.
Can We Trust Food Surveys?
The pitfalls of nutrition science - how do really know what people are eating?
Fact checking The Big Short
Is it true that 鈥渆very one percent unemployment goes up, 40,000 people die"?
Antibiotics and the Problem of the Broken Market
The world needs new antibiotics so how do we entice big pharmaceuticals back in?
When 拢10,000 isn鈥檛 a good incentive
Could no prize have been a better way to motivate snooker player Ronnie O鈥橲ullivan?
Selfies, Sugar Daddies and Dodgy Surveys
Women take selfies for five-and-a-half hours a day. Really? Tim Harford on junk surveys.
Fishy numbers?
Will there be more plastic than fish in the sea by 2050?
E-cigarettes: Can They Help People Quit?
Tim Harford investigates whether e-cigarettes harm people's chances of quitting.
Do e-Cigarettes Harm Your Chances of Quitting?
Should research described as 'misleading; and 'not scientific' have been published?
