"I don't think there is any claim - and we can frame this as Goldacre's law if you like - any claim so stupid anywhere in the world that you couldn't find at least one doctor or academic who was willing to put it forward."
Dr. Ben Goldacre - British science journalist, author of 'Bad Science' and www.badscience.net blog
Dr. Ben Goldacre - British science journalist, author of 'Bad Science' and www.badscience.net blog
"The support by one scientist for the idea that the MMR vaccine is connected to autism is an example of Goldacre's law in action"
by DAAAAVVVVVVVOOOOO February 11, 2009
by turkish dix January 23, 2008
by Joe July 16, 2004
Coined by Australian journalist, Tim Blair as "the ongoing process by which the world's multiple idiocies are becoming one giant, useless force."
3. Surely Pilger setting up a defence fund for Assange is the best example yet of Blair's Law ? (Imre Salusinszky, journalist, 9/12/2010)
by MdLk December 09, 2010
by Etan September 05, 2003
1(N)A naturally occuring law that makes forum threads go off topic. Nero's law will make most forum except nerdy mmorpg forum like runescape. Orginated from Tricklife.
by Tired One June 05, 2008
A law inherent in nature that states that everything that goes wrong in life is all Boyle's fault. It is mathematically represented by the formula Fault = Boyle(pi)^2 / DM, where DM equals the coefficient of Doug Mirabelli, experimentally found by the scientist and religious guru Bhanu Lama to have a value of 5.47 x 10^-3.
Man, I totally flunked that test yesterday. If Boyle hadn't fucked it up, I would've passed. Citing Boyle's Law, I know that it's all Boyle's fault.
by Soulja Boyle July 11, 2008