Ben also maintains a blog at <a href="http://www.badscience.net/" rel="nofollow">http://www.badscience.net/</a><p>My understanding is that the editors at The Guardian give him a lot of freedom but there are still items published on his blog which don't make it into his column.
This is a good example of a journalist digging into facts reporting by more lazy journalists, and is a thought process we can all apply to other stories we read online or elsewhere.