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Ben Goldacre

Eyewitness Testimony

April 7, 2009March 9, 2017Adrian Frost

From Ben Goldacre’s excellent ‘Bad Science’ column for the Guardian a while back: “Some researchers in Bologna demonstrate the spectacular hopelessness of memory. One morning in 1980, a bomb exploded in Bologna station : 85 people died, and the clock stopped ominously showing 10.25, the time of the explosion. This image became a famous symbol for the event, but the clock was repaired soon after, […]

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