I love Ben Goldacre most of the time, but this week's column is a real corker. The Torygraph ran a story claiming a scientific study showed that women who
are more likely to be raped.
In reality, the science is the preliminary data from a master's dissertation, and it shows nothing of the kind. Rather, it found that promiscuous men are more likely to be rapists. I could have told you that for nothing, and it's so utterly different from the reported data that it is, as Goldacre points out, scandalous, given the sensitivity of this subject.
