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		<title>The Medicalisation of Everyday Life</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/09/the-medicalisation-of-everyday-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 05:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the pace of medical innovation slows to a crawl, how do drug companies stay in profit? By &#8216;discovering&#8217; new illnesses to fit existing products. But, says Ben Goldacre, in the second extract from his new book, for many problems the cure will never be found in a pill. Ben Goldacre The Guardian Monday September [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fame!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre guardian.co.uk Saturday August 2 2008 It must be August. The Daily Mail is hunting for the Yeti again (they sent their own expedition out in 1954) and mathematical formula season has begun in earnest. PR guru Mark Borkowski&#8217;s &#8220;fame formula&#8221; was gushingly reported in the Telegraph, the Express, the Star, OK, Channel 4, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Atomic tomatoes are not the only fruit</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2004 11:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article is a rough transcript of the most excellent Bad Science Awards 2004 that were held in the Asylum Club on Rathbone St W1, a tiny basement club with a fire safety license for 150. We were expecting 20 people but to general astonishment there were queues down the street, and an unruly crowd [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading between the lines</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2004/04/reading-between-the-lines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2004 03:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading between the lines Talk about Bad science here Ben Goldacre Thursday April 22, 2004 The Guardian Â· There are times when a boy can feel terribly alone. Like when you&#8217;re standing in the medical section of the academic Waterstone&#8217;s in London, and you suddenly realise that you&#8217;re surrounded by people earnestly browsing 100ft of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Water torture</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2004/01/water-torture-2/</link>
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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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chocolate love</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2004 03:42:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chocolate love Ben Goldacre Thursday January 8, 2004 The Guardian Talk bad science Â· With painful inevitability, that old chestnut about chocolate&#8217;s health-giving properties popped up on the health and women&#8217;s pages of almost every newspaper, as is traditional at Christmas. The Daily Express eagerly pointed out that it&#8217;s &#8220;a good source&#8221; of flavanols, antioxidants, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The homeopaths strike back</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2003/10/the-homeopaths-strike-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2003 03:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The homeopaths strike back Ben Goldacre Thursday October 2, 2003 The Guardian Â· You probably don&#8217;t have to be a physics expert like bad science spotter Professor Donald Simanek to spot that the new Â£2 coin, celebrating our scientific heritage, has an odd number of gears interlocking around the edge, creating a system that could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s hear it for Jewel</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2003/08/lets-hear-it-for-jewel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2003 03:04:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s hear it for Jewel Ben Goldacre Thursday August 21, 2003 The Guardian Talk bad science Â· It was a pleasure to find Jewel, the &#8220;raunchy dance diva with an interest in atomic physics&#8221;, pontificating on science in the Daily Telegraph. Its correspondent could barely contain his excitement as she teasingly began to reveal her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watch out, Caplin&#8217;s about</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2003/07/50/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2003 03:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watch out, Caplin&#8217;s about Ben Goldacre Thursday July 31, 2003 The Guardian Talk bad science Â· Browsing through the August edition of Marie Claire, looking for preposterous cosmetics ads I hasten to add (stand by for next week), what could be more delightful for the noble bad-science spotter than to come across a photo story [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hollywood science</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2003/07/hollywood-science/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2003 03:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hollywood science Ben Goldacre Thursday July 24, 2003 The Guardian Talk bad science Â· It is possible to be too rational. So there I was, having a quiet hungover moment with a friend at the weekend, watching Honey I Shrunk The Kids with his daughter, when suddenly he could take it no more. &#8220;Surely if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At last, astrology</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2003/07/44/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2003 03:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At last, astrology Ben Goldacre Thursday July 10, 2003 The Guardian Talk bad science Â· Not content with dragging our morality back to the Victorian era, the Daily Mail continues its campaign to to reduce us all to medieval superstition. No half-truths about the MMR jab, diet fads or air ionisers this week though, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So what has ozone ever done for us?</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2003/06/so-what-has-ozone-ever-done-for-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2003 02:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Thursday June 26, 2003 The Guardian Â· What is it with alternative therapists and oxygen? Last week&#8217;s Time Out offered a glowing report on ozone therapy, and the fact that they called it O3 (with a superscript) should be enough to tell you that whoever wrote it wasn&#8217;t necessarily paying attention during basic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The onslaught begins&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2003/04/the-onslaught-begins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2003 02:41:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The onslaught begins&#8230; Ben Goldacre Thursday April 10, 2003 The Guardian As I rush towards the hideous reality of my 30th birthday, I am very excited to read about Longevity, a new kind of anti-ageing tablet that &#8220;delivers 2-AEP directly to outer cell walls to strengthen, seal and protect them&#8221;. The tablets have been awarded [...]]]></description>
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