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	<title>Bad Science &#187; alternative medicine</title>
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		<title>Podcast on government response to SciTech NHS homeopathy report</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2010/07/podcast-on-government-response-to-scitech-nhs-homeopathy-report/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2010/07/podcast-on-government-response-to-scitech-nhs-homeopathy-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I zipped off this quick podcast from my phone on Monday and put it on my secondary blog, which I run for scrappy stuff. People seemed to like it a bit so I&#8217;m reposting here. There&#8217;s more audio stuff coming, a bit of video too, and I&#8217;ll work out good feeds and iTunes stuff over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The bullshit box</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2010/07/the-bullshit-box/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2010/07/the-bullshit-box/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 00:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 10 July 2010 This week the food and nutrition pills industries are complaining. They like to make health claims about their products, which often turn out to be unsupported by the evidence. Regulating that mess would be tedious and long-winded, the kind of project enjoyed by the EU, and so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Libel claimants get what they deserve. So do you.</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2010/04/libel-litigants-get-what-they-deserve-and-so-do-the-public/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2010/04/libel-litigants-get-what-they-deserve-and-so-do-the-public/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 19:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Friday 15 April 2010 [Full text at guardian.co.uk, abbreviated in the paper] After 2 years of pursuing one man through the courts, at a cost to him of £200,000 and 2 years work, the British Chiropractic Association yesterday dropped their libel case against science writer Simon Singh. The case was over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obvious quacks: the tip of a scary medical iceberg</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2010/02/obvious-quacks-the-tip-of-a-scary-medical-iceberg/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2010/02/obvious-quacks-the-tip-of-a-scary-medical-iceberg/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 27 February, 2010 After the Science and Technology committee report this week, and the jaw dropping stupidity of “we bring you both sides” in the media coverage afterwards, you are bored of homeopathy. So am I, but it gives a very simple window into the wider disasters in all of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The BBC have found someone whose cancer was cured by homeopathy</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2010/02/the-bbc-have-found-someone-whose-cancer-was-cured-by-homeopathy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2010/02/the-bbc-have-found-someone-whose-cancer-was-cured-by-homeopathy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ladies and Gentlemen, we have hit the bottom of the barrel. Homeopathy cured my cancer, on BBC News.]]></description>
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		<title>Parliamentary Sci Tech Committee on Homeopathy</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2010/02/parliamentary-sci-tech-committee-on-homeopathy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2010/02/parliamentary-sci-tech-committee-on-homeopathy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the report, press release below. It looks like pretty sensible stuff to me, homeopaths can&#8217;t expect special treatment among all forms of medicine, if the evidence actively shows it doesn&#8217;t work, then that&#8217;s that. I have to say what really frightens me about all this is the MHRA: if regulation is so political that [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>80</slash:comments>
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		<title>How do you regulate Wu?</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2010/02/how-do-you-regulate-wu/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2010/02/how-do-you-regulate-wu/#comments</comments>
		<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>Oh, I found you a new job</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2010/01/oh-i-found-you-a-new-job/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2010/01/oh-i-found-you-a-new-job/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought you might be interested in this job advert from the Independent. It&#8217;s from the nice people at Maperton Trust. You can go and see them for a diagnosis with their magical machines, although the best product is their Head Lice Repelling Unit or HELRU (right) which various people have emailed me about over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All bow before the mighty power of the nocebo effect</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2009/11/all-bow-before-the-mighty-power-of-the-nocebo-effect/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2009/11/all-bow-before-the-mighty-power-of-the-nocebo-effect/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre, Saturday 28 November 2009, The Guardian This week the parliamentary science and technology select committee looked into the evidence behind the MHRA’s decision to allow homeopathy sugar pill labels to make medical claims without evidence of efficacy, and the funding of homeopathy on the NHS. There were some comedy highlights, as you might [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parliamentary Science and Technology Select Committee on homeopathy today</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2009/11/parliamentary-science-and-technology-select-committee-on-homeopathy-today/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2009/11/parliamentary-science-and-technology-select-committee-on-homeopathy-today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I gave evidence at the Parliamentary SciTech committtee today for their enquiry into whether the government had used scientific evidence properly in making their decisions about MHRA licenses for homeopathic pills, and homeopathy treatment on the NHS. This was a mini-enquiry as a result of interest expressed by the public, which is excellently democratic, you [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>66</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8220;We are more possible than you can powerfully imagine&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2009/07/we-are-more-possible-than-you-can-powerfully-imagine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2009/07/we-are-more-possible-than-you-can-powerfully-imagine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre The Guardian Wednesday 29 July 2009 Today the Australian magazine Cosmos, along with a vast number of other blogs and publications, reprinted an article by Simon Singh, in slightly tweaked form, in an act of solidarity. The British Chiropractic Association has been suing Singh personally for the past 15 months, over a piece [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A frankly thin contrivance for writing on the fascinating issue of subgroup analysis</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2009/04/a-frankly-thin-contrivance-for-writing-on-the-fascinating-issue-of-subgroup-analysis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2009/04/a-frankly-thin-contrivance-for-writing-on-the-fascinating-issue-of-subgroup-analysis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 10:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome back to the only home-learning statistics and trial methodology course to feature villains. You will remember the comedy factory of the Equazen fish oil “trials”: those amazing capsules that make your child clever and well behaved. A new proper trial has now been published looking at whether these fish oil capsules work. They took [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Matthias Rath &#8211; steal this chapter</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2009/04/matthias-rath-steal-this-chapter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2009/04/matthias-rath-steal-this-chapter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the &#8220;missing chapter&#8221; about vitamin pill salesman Matthias Rath. Sadly I was unable to write about him at the time that book was initially published, as he was suing my ass in the High Court. The chapter is now available in the new paperback edition, and I&#8217;ve posted it here for free so [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>126</slash:comments>
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		<title>The barefaced cheek of these characters will never cease to amaze and delight me.</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2009/01/the-barefaced-cheek-of-these-characters-will-never-cease-to-amaze-and-delight-me/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2009/01/the-barefaced-cheek-of-these-characters-will-never-cease-to-amaze-and-delight-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greeetings to listeners of the Today programme on BBC Radio 4. About 20 minutes ago I was on the show talking about detox nonsense. Nas Amir Ahmadi of detoxinabox.com denied the rather foolish contents of her own website, and confidently claimed that I must be thinking of the wrong company. I read a quote. She [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hot foul air</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/11/hot-foul-air/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2008/11/hot-foul-air/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 07:11:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre The Guardian Saturday 1st November 2008 Guy Ritchie has cancelled Madonna&#8217;s order for tens of thousands of pounds worth of special Kabbalah water to fill their swimming pool. It&#8217;s always uncomfortable when we have to humour someone close to us in the name of avoiding conflict. Right now in Thames Valley University, for [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>84</slash:comments>
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		<title>Dave Ford from Durham Council performs incompetent experiments on children.</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/09/dave-ford-from-durham-council-plays-at-being-a-scientist-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2008/09/dave-ford-from-durham-council-plays-at-being-a-scientist-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You’ll remember the Durham fish oil “trial” story, possibly the greatest example of scientific incompetence ever documented from a local authority. Initially they said &#8211; to blanket media coverage – that they were running a trial on fish oils, giving pills to 3,000 children to see if it improved GCSE performance. I pointed out, along [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Medicalisation of Everyday Life</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/09/the-medicalisation-of-everyday-life/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2008/09/the-medicalisation-of-everyday-life/#comments</comments>
		<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>Bill Nelson wins the internet.</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/08/bill-nelson-wins-the-internet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2008/08/bill-nelson-wins-the-internet/#comments</comments>
		<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>Silence Dissent!</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/08/silence-dissent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[alternative medicine]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[stifling criticism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The CAM world meets a new all time low this week &#8211; even by their own standards &#8211; as the New Zealand Chiropractors Association threaten the New Zealand Medical Journal with legal action for criticising their ideas and practice. Time and again we see alternative therapists using the law to silence dissent, and to prevent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blame everyone but yourselves</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/07/blame-everyone-but-yourselves/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2008/07/blame-everyone-but-yourselves/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[alternative medicine]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[nutritionists]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday July 26 2008 Like many professions who kill people with some regularity, doctors have elaborate systems for seeing what went wrong afterwards, and the answer is rarely “Brian did it”. This week the papers have been alive with criticism for quack nutritionism after the case of Dawn Page, a 52 [...]]]></description>
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