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		<title>BBC Newsnight mine the Brain Gym comedy mountain</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/04/bbc-newsnight-mine-the-brain-gym-comedy-mountain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Newsnight do Brain Gym, and Paxman interviews the man who invented it.
It&#8217;s comedy gold.
[youtube]www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5rH7kDcFpc [/youtube]
[youtube]www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjRhYP5faTU[/youtube]
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Incomprehensibly the school involved were really excited that they were going to be on telly:
Acresfield Community Primary School
BBC Newsnight Brain Gym® screening

During this week and next, Newsnight are presenting a series, over ten days, linked to the Iraq war. The screening [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Banging your head repeatedly against the brick wall of teachers&#8217; stupidity helps increase blood flow to your frontal lobes</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/02/banging-your-head-repeatedly-against-the-brick-wall-of-teachers-stupidity-helps-to-co-ordinate-your-left-and-right-cerebral-hemispheres/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre
The Guardian,
Saturday February 16 2008
As time passes, largely against my will, I have become a student of nonsense. More importantly, I&#8217;ve become interested in why some forms of nonsense can lucratively persist, where others quietly fail. Brain Gym continues to produce more email than almost any other subject: usually it is from teachers, eager [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dore &#8211; The Miracle Cure For Dyslexia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Nov 2006 01:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre
Saturday November 4, 2006
The Guardian
Wouldn&#8217;t it be great if there really was an expensive proprietary cure for dyslexia? Oh hang on, there is: paint tycoon Wynford Dore has developed one, with NASA space technology. It&#8217;s only £1700, it has celebrity endorsements, it involves some special exercises, but it has been proven with experts. &#8220;A [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>79</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Brain Gym Article In The Guardian</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/06/a-brain-gym-article-in-the-guardian/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2006 09:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of you will notice I&#8217;ve just gone into stealth mode briefly on a couple of previous articles. Shhh, there is no cause for alarm, more fun to come.
In the meantime, here is a Brain Gym article in The Guardian, by someone who&#8217;s not me. 
Mercifully it&#8217;s critical.   
Keep your pupils stretched and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Squabbles In Class</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/03/squabbles-in-class/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre
Saturday March 25, 2006
The Guardian
Nothing prepared me for the outpouring of jaw-dropping stupidity that vomited forth from teachers when I wrote about Brain Gym last week. To recap: Brain Gym is an incredibly popular technique, in at least hundreds of British state schools, promoted all over government websites, and with a scientific explanatory framework [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>170</slash:comments>
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		<title>Brain Gym &#8211; Name &amp; Shame</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/03/the-brain-drain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Mar 2006 00:11:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre
Saturday March 18, 2006
The Guardian
While all the proper grown up public intellectuals like Rod Liddle were getting a bee in their bonnet about Creationism being taught in a handful of British schools, I&#8217;ve accidentally stumbled upon a vast empire of pseudoscience being peddled in hundreds of everyday state schools up and down the country.
I&#8217;ll [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brain Gym, Anyone? I Need Teachers&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2006 00:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wonder if anybody remembers Brain Gym? I wrote about them a couple of times in 2003 (links below). They&#8217;re a strange bunch who seem to get into lots of UK state schools at the taxpayers expense, where they share pearls of wisdom such as: â€œFocus is the ability to coordinate the back and front [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>140</slash:comments>
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		<title>Alternative medicine on the NHS?</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2004/02/alternative-medicine-on-the-nhs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2004 03:49:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alternative medicine on the NHS?
Ben Goldacre
Thursday February 12, 2004
The Guardian
Â· Well, last week&#8217;s chemicals with rude names certainly tapped a rich seam. There are some species names that Carl Linnaeus would have been proud of. So, it&#8217;s hard to imagine the story behind how we ended up with a leiodid beetle &#8220;Colon rectum&#8221;, let alone [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Setting up camp in the healing field</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2003/07/setting-up-camp-in-the-healing-field/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2003/07/setting-up-camp-in-the-healing-field/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2003 02:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Setting up camp in the healing field
Ben Goldacre
Thursday July 3, 2003
The Guardian
Â· Doing a New Age Bad Science Glastonbury Special is a bit like shooting fish in a barrel. Which is not to say I&#8217;ve had a change of heart: within five minutes of entering the Healing Field last weekend, I was handed a copy [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Work out your mind</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2003/06/work-out-your-mind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2003 02:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Work out your mind
Ben Goldacre
Thursday June 12, 2003
The Guardian
Talk about bad science
Â· Children are so sweet, so trusting &#8211; those pseudoscientists just can&#8217;t help but prey on them. A reader writes about his experience at a primary school in northern England. He found they were employing a technique called Brain Gym. It&#8217;s from California. &#8220;Brain [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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