Ben Goldacre has been rallying around this cause for years now. He has: 1. presented a TED talk (http://www.ted.com/talks/ben_goldacre_battling_bad_science?l...), 2. authored books (http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0007350740/), and 3. written numerous articles (http://www.theguardian.com/profile/bengoldacre) on the misrepresentation of statistics within the pharmaceutical community.

Probably the best summary post of his is this one: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/nov/04/bad-sci...

He also recommended that a registry be instituted, where you have to register before starting research, and you HAVE to publish your result, negative or not. If you haven't registered beforehand, you can't publish at all.

Sounds like a simple and effective solution.

Bad Pharma is truly an eye-opener as to the extent of the troubles faced in getting truth out of medical research. It's going to take many, many, different group combining foresight, technology, and good-old-fashioned political clout to even start fixing it.

John Ioannidis' work is fascinating in that respect as well.. not just in the medical field, but science in general.

Fing about Arsenal is, they always try an' walk it in.

You might be interested in the UK's 'Transport analysis guidance: WebTAG': https://www.gov.uk/transport-analysis-guidance-webtag (hosted on the particularly well-designed GOV.UK).

gov.uk is practically unique in been a successful public facing government development project.

The people behind it are incredibly talented, they have a blog here https://gds.blog.gov.uk/

It's almost like if you get together a talented team of people, give them a clear brief and scope and then let them use whatever tools they need you end up with a good product at the end...

Also good https://digitaltransformation.blog.gov.uk/

Also interesting https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/agile/index.html which is their manual for providing digital services.

Poe's law?

nah, just spam, flagged