The third annual ‘celebrity audit’ from the char­ity Sense About Sci­ence has been released, and it makes for amusing—and depressing—reading. The cam­paign, tar­get­ing celebri­ties who pro­mote the­o­ries, ther­a­pies and cam­paigns that make lit­tle or no sci­en­tific sense, this year takes a swipe at Tom Cruise, Jim Carey, Barack Obama and Demi Moore, among others.

In sim­i­lar fash­ion, Ben Goldacre com­piles his end-of-year list of Bad Sci­ence. This quote sums it up nicely:

It’s only when you line these jok­ers up side by side that you realise what a vast and unwinnable fight we face. […] In a world where rig­or­ous evi­dence from sci­en­tific research lan­guishes unpub­li­cised, the media con­tin­ued to churn out bogus wacky sci­ence stories.

As Andrew com­mented yes­ter­day, books such as Goldacre’s Bad Sci­ence should be com­pul­sory read­ing in schools.