Bad Science: Torture numbers and they will tell you anything. Presented at the 8th Annual Congress of PainSA, Muldersdrift, South Africa, 2015. <div><br></div><div>The presentation covers the issue of paper retractions, and the dual problems of publication bias, and poor data study design, analysis and reporting to low study reproducibility and replicability, and increasing rate of retractions.<br></div