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		<title>BMJ Column &#8211; Beware of mentioning psychosocial factors</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[How doctors describe the many interactions between a person, their illness, and society has little purchase in the crudely dualistic world of popular culture.
Ben Goldacre
Observations &#8211; Media watch
BMJ  2007;335:801 (20 October)
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre
The Guardian
Saturday September 29 2007
One thing that always fascinates me, as I tug on my pipe in this armchair, is how reductionist, how mechanical, how sciencey and medical we like our stories about the body to be. This week a major new study was published on acupuncture. Many newspapers said it showed acupuncture performing [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was just on Radio 4&#8217;s PM program talking about the acupuncture study that&#8217;s in the news today, you can listen to it here (37 minutes in to the programme):
www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/pm/
Here are some references and background bits and bobs.
The paper itself was very interesting. It took 1200 people, with an average of 8 years back pain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>False advertising is not the remedy</title>
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Ben Goldacre
Thursday March 11, 2004
The Guardian
Talk bad science
Â· I wouldn&#8217;t want you to feel powerless in the face of the new dark ages irrationality: there&#8217;s so much more to being a bad science activist than just feeling smug after winning an argument at a party, as Dr Danny O&#8217;Hare demonstrates [...]]]></description>
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Ben Goldacre
Thursday April 24, 2003
The Guardian
New: Talk about Bad science
Â· I was delighted to see that the government has given Â£1.3m to the pseudo-scientists marketing alternative therapies such as homeopathy and acupuncture. This money will go towards research projects to determine whether their money-making scams really help people, and whether they should be [...]]]></description>
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