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		<title>Drink coffee, see dead people.</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2009/01/drink-coffee-see-dead-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian, Saturday January 17 2009 Ben Goldacre &#8220;Danger from just 7 cups of coffee a day&#8221; said the Express on Wednesday. &#8220;Too much coffee can make you hallucinate and sense dead people say sleep experts. The equivalent of just seven cups of instant coffee a day is enough to trigger the weird responses.&#8221; The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientific proof that we live in a warmer and more caring universe</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/11/scientific-proof-that-we-live-in-a-warmer-and-more-caring-universe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre The Guardian Saturday November 29 2008 As usual, it’s not Watergate, it’s just slightly irritating. “Down’s births increase in a caring Britain”, said the Times: “More babies are being born with Down’s syndrome as parents feel increasingly that society is a more welcoming place for children with the condition.” That’s beautiful. “More mothers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Listen carefully, I shall say this only once</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/10/listen-carefully-i-shall-say-this-only-once/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday October 25 2008 Welcome to nerds&#8217; corner, and yet another small print criticism of a trivial act of borderline dubiousness which will ultimately lead to distorted evidence, irrational decisions, and bad outcomes in what I like to call &#8220;the real world&#8221;. So the ClinPsyc blog (clinpsyc.blogspot.com ) has spotted that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The media&#8217;s MMR hoax</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/08/the-medias-mmr-hoax/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an extract from my new book &#8220;Bad Science&#8220;, in the Guardian today. It&#8217;s out on Monday: my recommendation is that you buy it, and give it to someone who disagrees with you. Ben Goldacre The Guardian Saturday August 30 2008 Dr Andrew Wakefield is in front of the General Medical Council on charges [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Nelson wins the internet.</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/08/bill-nelson-wins-the-internet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 07:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday August 9 2008 Silly season is in full swing. At the Telegraph, their correspondent has gone for a bioenergetic health audit. “The resident homoeopath, Katie Jermine, quizzed me about my diet, stress levels and lifestyle. She then strapped on a wristband and plugged me into an electronic device called the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You are hereby sentenced eternally to wander the newspapers, fruitlessly mocking nutriwoo</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/07/you-are-hereby-sentenced-eternally-to-wander-the-newspapers-fruitlessly-mocking-nutriwoo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday July 26 2008 The newspapers are so profoundly overrun with pseudoscience about food that there&#8217;s no point in documenting it any longer. They will continue with their Sisyphean task of dividing all the inanimate objects in the world into the ones that either cause or cure cancer, and I will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pools of blood</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/05/pools-of-blood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 00:22:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: The Guardian accidentally edited this column such that the last paragraph contained an untrue statement. I have emailed the readers editor for a correction. Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday May 10 2008 So basically I sit here with a big bag of standard tools from the world of evidence, and wait for stories to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How policy works</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/04/how-policy-works/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre The Guardian Saturday 12th April, 2008 If you put aside the fact that most of the people who campaign against food additives should be taken out and shot for crimes against the enlightenment, even a stopped clock shows the right time twice a day, and the evidence overall genuinely shows that some food [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nadine Dorries and the Hand of Hope &#8211; updated with response to Dorries&#8217; unusual surgical claims</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/03/nadine-dorries-and-the-hand-of-hope/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You will remember Nadine Dorries MP, anti-abortion campaigner. She was heavily involved in promoting those dubious pre-term survival figures which were presented to the Science and Technology Select Committe enquiry, and when I wrote about those dodgy figures, she accused me of bad behaviour, and demanded a formal enquiry into whether there had been leaks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trivial Disputes</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/02/trivial-disputes-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 04:14:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are no difficult ideas in this column. Like, for example, when I tell you about the Daily Telegraph front page headline which says &#8220;Abuse of cannabis puts 500 a week in hospital&#8221;, and it turns out they&#8217;re actually quoting a figure from a report on the number of people having contact with any drug [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A rather long build up to one punchline</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/12/a-rather-long-build-up-to-one-punchline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2007 13:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday December 8 2007 The Daily Mail, as you know, is engaged in a philosophical project of mythic proportions: for many years now it has diligently been sifting through all the inanimate objects in the world, soberly dividing them into the ones which either cause &#8211; or cure &#8211; cancer. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Decision Hedgehog</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/12/the-decision-hedgehog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 13:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m honestly not wanting to be mean here. Seriously, I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s value in this paper: &#8220;The Decision Hedgehog &#8211; Enhancing Contextual Knowledge For Group Decision Authoring And Communication Support&#8221; But I just can&#8217;t help daydreaming about the bit in the seminar where the audience start thinking, you know, I could see where you were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meaningful debates need clear information</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/10/557/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 23:38:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre The Guardian Saturday October 27 2007 Where do all those numbers in the newspapers come from? Here&#8217;s a funny thing. The Commons committee on science and technology is taking evidence on &#8220;scientific developments relating to the Abortion Act 1967&#8243;. Scientific and medical expert bodies giving evidence say that survival in births below 24 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After Madeleine, why not Bin Laden?</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/10/after-madeleine-why-not-bin-laden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre The Guardian Saturday October 13 2007 Danie Krugel is an ex-policeman in South Africa who believes he can pinpoint the location of missing people anywhere on the map. He does this by using his special magic box, which works through something to do with &#8220;quantum physics&#8221;, but you aren&#8217;t allowed to know any [...]]]></description>
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