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		<title>We should so blatantly do more randomised trials on policy</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2011/05/we-should-so-blatantly-do-more-randomised-trials-on-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2011/05/we-should-so-blatantly-do-more-randomised-trials-on-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 12:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 14 May 2011 Politicians are ignorant about trials, and they’re weird about evidence. It doesn’t need to be this way. In international development work, resources are tight, and people know that good intentions aren’t enough: in fact, good intentions can sometimes do harm. We need to know what works. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The pope and Aids</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2010/09/the-pope-and-aids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2010 01:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week the pope is in London. You will have your own views on the discrimination against women, the homophobia, and the international criminal conspiracy to cover up for mass child rape. My special interest is his role in the 2 million people who die of Aids each year. In May 2005, shortly after taking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diarrhoea and Aids for Christmas</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2009/12/mawkish-christmas-cheer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2009/12/mawkish-christmas-cheer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:33:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year I ran into Ariane Sherine. She had found that no charity would publicly take money from a book written by atheists at Christmas, since Christians give so much money for good work, and they didn’t want to annoy them. Luckily the Terence Higgins Trust stepped up to this bizarre challenge, which is excellent, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This is what the Spectator sent when they cancelled their Aids denialism extravaganza</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2009/10/this-is-what-the-spectator-sent-when-they-cancelled-their-aids-denialism-extravaganza/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2009/10/this-is-what-the-spectator-sent-when-they-cancelled-their-aids-denialism-extravaganza/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m at a conference (on communicating evidence to patients with… GERD GIGERENZER!!!) in Frankfurt and late for lunch, but I thought it might amuse you to see the language the Spectator are using. &#160; From: Events [mailto:events@pressholdings.com] Sent: 26 October 2009 12:19 Subject: URGENT &#8211; EVENT CANCELLATION &#8211; AIDS &#8211; REALISM OR DENIAL &#8211; 28 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aids denialism at the Spectator</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2009/10/aids-denialism-at-the-spectator/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2009/10/aids-denialism-at-the-spectator/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre, Saturday 24 October 2009, The Guardian. A lot of strange stuff can fly in under the claim that you are “simply starting a debate”. You may remember the Aids denialist documentary House Of Numbers from 3 weeks ago. Since then, it has received many glowing outings. The London Raindance film festival explained that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House of Numbers</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2009/09/house-of-numbers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre, 26 September 2009, The Guardian. This week, listening to the Guardian Science podcast, I had a treat. Caspar Melville, editor of New Humanist magazine, leader of something called the Rationalist Association, had been to see two films at the Cambridge Film Festival. One was a dreary creationist movie that famously misrepresented the biologists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medical Hypotheses fails the Aids test</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2009/09/medical-hypotheses-fails-the-aids-test/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2009/09/medical-hypotheses-fails-the-aids-test/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre, 12 September 2009, The Guardian This week the peer review system has been in the newspapers, after a survey of scientists suggested it had some problems. This is barely news. Peer review – where articles submitted to an academic journal are reviewed by other scientists from the same field for an opinion on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Please give us all your money</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2009/09/please-give-us-all-your-money/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2009/09/please-give-us-all-your-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre, 5 September 2009, The Guardian How do patents affect science? This week in India, US drug company Gilead lost their appeal to stop local companies making cheap copies of their Aids drug Tenofovir. They are not alone: in 2007 Novartis lost a lengthy case trying to force the Indian government into strengthening their weak [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What would you say to people from the developing world who use science to make decisions, but don&#8217;t necessarily always have a lot of time, or know a lot about it?</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2009/05/what-would-you-say-to-people-from-the-developing-world-who-use-science-to-make-decisions-but-dont-necessarily-always-have-a-lot-of-time-or-know-a-lot-about-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2009/05/what-would-you-say-to-people-from-the-developing-world-who-use-science-to-make-decisions-but-dont-necessarily-always-have-a-lot-of-time-or-know-a-lot-about-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 12:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been asked to facilitate a couple of sessions with some civil servant types from various countries in the developing world who advise their governments on science, and particularly on the science informing policy and purchasing decisions. The idea is to focus on how people might try and mislead you with science, and the range [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Matthias Rath &#8211; steal this chapter</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2009/04/matthias-rath-steal-this-chapter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2009/04/matthias-rath-steal-this-chapter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the &#8220;missing chapter&#8221; about vitamin pill salesman Matthias Rath. Sadly I was unable to write about him at the time that book was initially published, as he was suing my ass in the High Court. The chapter is now available in the new paperback edition, and I&#8217;ve posted it here for free so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What if everything you thought you knew about Aids was wrong?</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2009/01/what-if-everything-you-thought-you-knew-about-aids-was-wrong/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2009/01/what-if-everything-you-thought-you-knew-about-aids-was-wrong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 14:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry, up against it on time, I&#8217;ll post a longer version of this article with links later on x Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday 3 January 2009 Happy New Year and everything, but know this: nothing has changed, people continue to have stupid ideas, newspapers continue to laud them, and lives will be lost. Here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Matthias Rath drops his million pound legal case against me and the Guardian.</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/09/matthias-rath-pulls-out-forced-to-pay-the-guardians-costs-i-think-this-means-i-win/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2008/09/matthias-rath-pulls-out-forced-to-pay-the-guardians-costs-i-think-this-means-i-win/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s just been publicly announced that the vitamin pill magnate Matthias Rath has pulled out of his gruelling legal case against me and the Guardian. He bought full page adverts denouncing Aids drugs while promoting his vitamin pills in South Africa, a country where hundreds of thousands die every year from Aids under an HIV [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Magnificent torrent of canards in parliament from David Tredinnick MP</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/02/magnificent-torrent-of-canards-in-parliament-from-david-tredinnick-mp/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2008/02/magnificent-torrent-of-canards-in-parliament-from-david-tredinnick-mp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Tredinnick is conservative MP for Bosworth (he was suspended without pay during the cash for questions scandal) and very keen on alternative therapies. Here is a fabulous speech from him in parliament yesterday. As you can see, he talks up the use of homeopathy as a treatment for HIV, malaria, and a whole host [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aids Quackery International Tour</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/12/aids-quackery-international-tour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre The Guardian Saturday December 1 2007 If you were going to be actuarial about media coverage &#8211; an eighth of a column inch for each premature death perhaps &#8211; then this paper would be filled with diarrhoea and Aids. Today is World Aids Day: so come with me on a world tour of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Matthias Rath In London</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/03/rath-in-london/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2007/03/rath-in-london/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a thing: video of Matthias Rath speaking at a rally in London on Saturday March 24 2007 to rapturous applause. For those who don&#8217;t remember, Matthias Rath is the German vitamin entrepreneur who sells his proprietary vitamin pills to people dying of AIDS in South Africa instead of antiretroviral medication, spreading the message that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patrick Holford &#8211; &#8220;Food Is Better Than Medicine&#8221; South Africa Tour Blighted By HIV Claim</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/02/patrick-holford-food-is-better-than-medicine-south-africa-tour/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2007/02/patrick-holford-food-is-better-than-medicine-south-africa-tour/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:09:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a bit of a data dump of some of the critical news coverage that Patrick Holford&#8217;s &#8220;Food Is Better Than Medicine&#8221; tour of South Africa has picked up. They&#8217;re not very impressed in Africa by his claim that vitamin C is better than AZT, and Holford seems a bit conflicted over it himself. Here&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enough. Patrick. Holford.</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/02/money-is-not-the-only-barrier-to-aids-patients-getting-hold-of-drugs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2007/02/money-is-not-the-only-barrier-to-aids-patients-getting-hold-of-drugs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:32:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday February 17, 2007 The Guardian Look, I realise this is beginning to feel like one of those big containers where the Americans play Britney at you over and over again until you confess to crimes you haven&#8217;t committed. I&#8217;m totally ready to move on from nutritionists. But Patrick Holford yesterday found his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Wide Weirdness Shootout &#8211; updated</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/01/world-wide-weirdness-shootout/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2007/01/world-wide-weirdness-shootout/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jan 2007 01:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday January 27, 2007 The Guardian I&#8217;m not a complicated man &#8211; as my girlfriend could happily tell you &#8211; but I do get a bit worried about these stories I&#8217;ve been emailed, where African people say something stupid about the science of Aids and we all laugh at them. To be fair, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new all-time low</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/01/a-new-all-time-low-from-the-nutritionists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jan 2007 00:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday January 20, 2007 The Guardian If you think the nutritionists and vitamin peddlers in the UK are weird, you really want to go to South Africa, where President Thabo Mbeki has a long history of siding with the HIV denialists, who believe that HIV does not cause Aids (but that treatments for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Hampstead to Cape Town</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/08/from-hampstead-to-cape-town/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2006 23:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday August 26th, 2006 The Guardian What happens if you transplant western ideas like nutritionism, and anti-vaccination panics, into a developing world context? Unfortunately thatâ€™s not a thought experiment. Between 600 and 800 people die every day in South Africa from HIV/AIDS, and their government was roundly criticised at last weeks International AIDS [...]]]></description>
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