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		<title>How do you regulate Wu?</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2010/02/how-do-you-regulate-wu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 20 February 2010 You might have read the case of Ying Wu this week: a fully qualified traditional chinese medicine doctor operating out of a shop in Chelmsford who for several years prescribed high doses of a dangerous banned substance to treat the acne of senior civil servant Patricia Booth, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roger Coghill and the Aids test</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/06/roger-coghill-fails-the-aids-test/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday June 28, 2008 It&#8217;s the big stories I enjoy the most. &#8220;Suicides linked to phone masts&#8221; roared the Sunday Express front-page headline this week. &#8220;The spate of deaths among young people in Britain&#8217;s suicide capital could be linked to radio waves from dozens of mobile phone transmitter masts near the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aids Quackery International Tour</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/12/aids-quackery-international-tour/</link>
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		<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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The trouble with herbals</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/10/543/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Oct 2007 10:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre The Guardian Saturday October 6 2007 The news this week that herbal remedies can be ineffective or dangerous is boring: but come with me on a journey through time (time… time…) to the origins of medicine. Herbs contain bioactive compounds. That&#8217;s why they can be effective, but it&#8217;s also why they can have [...]]]></description>
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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>
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		<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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		<title>Resistance is worse than useless</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/02/resistance-is-worse-than-useless/</link>
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		<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; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supplementary benefits</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2005/08/anti-biotechs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2005 01:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Thursday August 11, 2005 The Guardian Â· OK, it&#8217;s me and Susan Clarke from the Sunday Times, on the floor, mano a mano. This week someone is asking for alternative therapy wisdom for her husband, who is going into hospital: &#8220;Is there any natural product or foodstuff he could take prior to surgery [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Funnel vision</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2005/07/funnel-vision/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2005 13:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Thursday July 7, 2005 The Guardian Â· There I was two weeks ago, making sarcastic jokes about how Bad Science was just a cover for the [coughs] popular statistics lecture series I secretly yearned to give, and now I&#8217;m about to try to explain funnel plots to you, in a national newspaper, and [...]]]></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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		<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>Mixing medicines</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2004/11/mixing-medicines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2004 15:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Thursday November 11, 2004 The Guardian Â· Ah, Susan Clark of the Sunday Times (What&#8217;s the Alternative?), how I love her. This time she&#8217;s giving advice about which natural substances are safe to take with warfarin. First, she bemoans the dearth of research on the subject. Then she ignores the useful stuff in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s all in the title</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2004/09/its-all-in-the-title/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2004/09/its-all-in-the-title/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2004 15:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Thursday September 16, 2004 The Guardian Â· It&#8217;s hard to know who to trust these days, what with pseudoscientists pretending to have all kinds of qualifications and quoting authorities all over the shop. Susan Clark&#8217;s consistently entertaining &#8220;What&#8217;s The Alternative?&#8221; column in the Sunday Times recommends artemisinin this week, as an alternative herbal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prion and on and on</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2004/07/prion-and-on-and-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2004 15:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Thursday July 22, 2004 The Guardian Â· Bad Science business as usual in the British &#8220;news&#8221; media. Several of you were delighted to spot the Times worrying us about BSE all over again, with a picture of what caused it: not a prion, mysteriously, but a picture of a nice big bacterium. And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A royal mess</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2004/07/a-royal-mess/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2004 15:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Thursday July 1, 2004 The Guardian Â· I always thought the monarchy was there to remind us that inherited wealth and privilege are alive and well, and to stop us falling into the American trap of imagining that we live in a meritocracy: but apparently it&#8217;s there to set the health research agenda. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wort warning</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2004/05/wort-warning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2004 04:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wort warning Ben Goldacre Thursday May 20, 2004 The Guardian Talk about bad science here Â· People often ask why I get so grumpy about the lack of intellectual rigour in alternative medicine. &#8220;What&#8217;s so bad,&#8221; they say, &#8220;about people believing whatever they want, if it makes them feel better?&#8221; What&#8217;s so bad is that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wort warning</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2004/05/wort-warning-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2004 16:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Thursday May 20, 2004 The Guardian Â· People often ask why I get so grumpy about the lack of intellectual rigour in alternative medicine. &#8220;What&#8217;s so bad,&#8221; they say, &#8220;about people believing whatever they want, if it makes them feel better?&#8221; What&#8217;s so bad is that sometimes, when people mix and match ideas, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can anal retention help you beat depression?</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2003/09/can-anal-retention-help-you-beat-depression/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2003 03:18:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can anal retention help you beat depression? Ben Goldacre Thursday September 18, 2003 The Guardian Talk bad science Â· You might wonder why I&#8217;m being so anally retentive about everything this week. I can only say in my defence that I&#8217;ve been doing my best to follow Hiroyuki Nishigaki&#8217;s excellent book: &#8220;How to Good-Bye Depression: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Neutral whites</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2003/09/neutral-whites/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2003 03:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Neutral whites Ben Goldacre Thursday September 4, 2003 The Guardian Talk bad science Â· When I was a lad, washing powder adverts were all about men in white coats on housewives&#8217; doorsteps; now international biotech firms have to wear a kaftan and beads just to get your attention. New Persil Aloe Vera contains &#8220;Aloe Vera [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Size does matter</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2003/08/size-does-matter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2003 03:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Size does matter Ben Goldacre Thursday August 7, 2003 The Guardian Talk bad science Â· I wouldn&#8217;t want you to think that I am in any way worried about the size of my penis. But since the bad science email address now seems to be overflowing with &#8220;scientifically proven&#8221; ways to improve my &#8220;visual impact&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cures for quacks</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2003/06/cures-for-quacks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2003 02:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[alternative medicine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bad science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dangers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[herbal remedies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Thursday June 19, 2003 The Guardian Â· The plural of anecdote is not data. Although it&#8217;s always very tempting. So although I&#8217;ll contain my evil desires to titillate you with tales of patients who&#8217;ve needed liver transplants after taking Chinese herbal remedies, I&#8217;m very amused by an article in the Lancet about a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apes and antibiotics</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2003/04/apes-and-antibiotics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2003/04/apes-and-antibiotics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2003 02:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[bad science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cosmetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[herbal remedies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scare stories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Apes and antibiotics Ben Goldacre Thursday April 17, 2003 The Guardian New: Talk about Bad science Â· The terrifying epidemic of inaccurate fear-mongering continues to rage over the Sars virus. Dominik Diamond of the Daily Star blames you, the general public, for creating the super virus: &#8220;We&#8217;ve wasted our defences against this, by demanding antibiotics [...]]]></description>
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