I should like Dr Goldacre, I really should. He seems to talk a lot of sense. He even went to Magdalen.

But then at the same time, I come back to something a friend of mine from Magdalen said: Ben Goldacre is one of three people (the other two being Stephen Fry and Brian Cox) that people follow on Twitter to 'prove' they are clever. And if you ever read the comments on his blog, you'll see that there is some truth in this.

Mind you, I'd love someone to do the same thing for economics - a 'Bad Economics' if you will. Freakonomics and Superfreakonomics go in that direction, but are more informative than argumentative, and only cover micro-, never macroeconomics.