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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>
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		<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>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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		<slash:comments>123</slash:comments>
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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 [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>58</slash:comments>
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		<title>Aids Quackery International Tour</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/12/aids-quackery-international-tour/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2007/12/aids-quackery-international-tour/#comments</comments>
		<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 Aids quackery.
South Africa [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>106</slash:comments>
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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 AIDS [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>68</slash:comments>
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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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		<slash:comments>67</slash:comments>
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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 way on to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>46</slash:comments>
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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, the facts don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>59</slash:comments>
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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>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2007/01/a-new-all-time-low-from-the-nutritionists/#comments</comments>
		<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 it do), and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>55</slash:comments>
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		<title>From Hampstead to Cape Town</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/08/from-hampstead-to-cape-town/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2006/08/from-hampstead-to-cape-town/#comments</comments>
		<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 conference in Toronto.
Everyone [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>44</slash:comments>
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		<title>AIDS Denialists Galore</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/08/aids-denialists-galore/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2006/08/aids-denialists-galore/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Aug 2006 13:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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Just for completeness sake, I was worried that some of you might have missed this absolute corker of a 15 page article in Harper&#8217;s (circ: 230,000) by AIDS-denialist Celia Farber, in which all kinds of entertaining claims get an airing. AIDS is actually a &#8220;chemical syndrome, caused by accumulated toxins from heavy drug use,&#8221; &#8220;many [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>32</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8220;Now Look What You&#8217;ve Made Me Do&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/06/now-look-what-youve-made-me-do/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2006/06/now-look-what-youve-made-me-do/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2006 10:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poor old Susan Clark, previously a regular Bad Science target when she was writing &#8220;What&#8217;s The Alternative&#8221; in the Sunday Times, she is now in a position of total safety at The Observer. 
Apparently in the past the poor thing has had such a hammering for her advice on malaria medication, that now her readers [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>30</slash:comments>
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		<title>Resistance is worse than useless</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/02/resistance-is-worse-than-useless/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2006/02/resistance-is-worse-than-useless/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2006 01:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre
Saturday February 11, 2006
The Guardian
Let me take you back to 2005, and one of several Bad Science stories about Susan Clark and her What&#8217;s The Alternative column in the Sunday Times. She&#8217;s no longer in that post &#8211; if you&#8217;re lucky we&#8217;ll have room to talk about her successor soon &#8211; but she stood [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>63</slash:comments>
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		<title>Health Cheque (Bad Science June 30 2005)</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2005/06/bad-science-health-cheque/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2005/06/bad-science-health-cheque/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2005 01:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Health cheque
Ben Goldacre
Thursday June 30, 2005
The Guardian
Â· And so to Africa, where there are &#8220;complementary and alternative medicine&#8221; practitioners pursuing the fashionable attack on mainstream medicine, just like in the UK. Take Matthias Rath and the Rath Foundation vitamin empire: they&#8217;ve been running advertising campaigns in newspapers and poster campaigns near HIV/Aids treatment centres, telling [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Pope Dope</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2005/04/pope-dope/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2005/04/pope-dope/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2005 11:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bad science 
Ben Goldacre
Thursday April 7, 2005
The Guardian 
â€¢ Pope of Popes, the People&#8217;s Pope, Pope John Paul the Great. But to many he will perhaps be remembered as the African Aids Victims&#8217; Pope. Who could forget Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, president of the Vatican&#8217;s Pontifical Council for the Family, telling us all that HIV [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Atomic tomatoes are not the only fruit</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2004/12/atomic-tomatoes-are-not-the-only-fruit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2004/12/atomic-tomatoes-are-not-the-only-fruit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2004 11:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<title>Water torture</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2004 03:42:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Water torture
Ben Goldacre
Thursday January 15, 2004
The Guardian
Talk bad science
Â· You&#8217;ve got to get up pretty early in the morning to catch a Sunday Times beauty journalist out. &#8220;Harriet Griffey thought bottled water was a con, until mountain-pure H < ->2 O healed her senses.&#8221; Let&#8217;s stop her right there. I think I can write these [...]]]></description>
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