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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>
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		<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>116</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>
				<category><![CDATA[bad science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[detox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nutritionists]]></category>
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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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		<slash:comments>149</slash:comments>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[PhDs, doctors, and qualifications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alternative medicine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeopathy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mondo academico]]></category>
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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 example, entire science [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>82</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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		<category><![CDATA[fish oil]]></category>
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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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		<slash:comments>85</slash:comments>
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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 1 2008
When you&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>51</slash:comments>
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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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		<category><![CDATA[detox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeopathy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[pseudodiagnoses]]></category>
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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 Quantum QXCI, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>76</slash:comments>
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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>
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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 year old [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>68</slash:comments>
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		<title>You are hereby sentenced eternally to wander the newspapers, fruitlessly mocking nutriwoo</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/07/you-are-hereby-sentenced-eternally-to-wander-the-newspapers-fruitlessly-mocking-nutriwoo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2008/07/you-are-hereby-sentenced-eternally-to-wander-the-newspapers-fruitlessly-mocking-nutriwoo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre
The Guardian,
Saturday July 26 2008
The newspapers are so profoundly overrun with pseudoscience about food that there&#8217;s no point in documenting it any longer. They will continue with their Sisyphean task of dividing all the inanimate objects in the world into the ones that either cause or cure cancer, and I will sit at the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>48</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8220;Manufacturing Doubt&#8221;: Sir Cliff Richard weighs in on the Cochrane review.</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/04/cliff-richard-gloria-hunniford-carole-caplin-the-60bn-food-supplement-industry-and-the-quantum-xrroid-dude-refute-a-cochrane-meta-analysis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2008/04/cliff-richard-gloria-hunniford-carole-caplin-the-60bn-food-supplement-industry-and-the-quantum-xrroid-dude-refute-a-cochrane-meta-analysis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[manufacturing doubt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nutritionists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[references]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre
The Guardian,
Saturday April 26 2008
And so our ongoing project to learn about evidence through nonsense enters its sixth improbable year. This week, the assembled celebrity community and vitamin pill industry will walk us through the pitfalls of reading through a systematic review and meta-analysis from the Cochrane Collaboration, an international not for profit organisation [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>39</slash:comments>
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		<title>How policy works</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/04/how-policy-works/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2008/04/how-policy-works/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[badscience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[laws]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nutritionists]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre
The Guardian
Saturday 12th April, 2008
If you put aside the fact that most of the people who campaign against food additives should be taken out and shot for crimes against the enlightenment, even a stopped clock shows the right time twice a day, and the evidence overall genuinely shows that some food additives probably aren&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>39</slash:comments>
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		<title>Now with audio &#8211; The Rise of the Lifestyle Nutritionists Part II &#8211; BBC Radio 4</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/03/8pm-bbc-radio-4-the-rise-of-the-lifestyle-nutritionists-part-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2008/03/8pm-bbc-radio-4-the-rise-of-the-lifestyle-nutritionists-part-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[fish oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gillian mckeith]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Busy bee today, sorry for the late link, the second part of the BBC Radio 4 two-part series &#8220;The Rise of the Lifestyle Nutritionists&#8221;  is going out at 8pm this evening, presented by yours truly (part one here) and produced by the excellently sharp Rami Tzabar from the BBC Radio Science Unit. I think [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>50</slash:comments>
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		<title>The trial that never was.</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/03/ding-dong-the-fish-is-dead/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2008/03/ding-dong-the-fish-is-dead/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:16:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre
The Guardian,
Saturday March 29 2008
And so an epic saga comes to a close. You will remember the Durham Fish Oil tale &#8211; don&#8217;t switch off now, the punchline&#8217;s funny. The county council said it was doing a &#8220;trial&#8221; of fish oil pills in children, but the trial was designed so that it couldn&#8217;t possibly [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>58</slash:comments>
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		<title>Radio 4 The Rise of the Lifestyle Nutritionists</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/03/radio-4-the-rise-of-the-lifestyle-nutritionists/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2008/03/radio-4-the-rise-of-the-lifestyle-nutritionists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[history of quackery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, very excitingly &#8211; to me &#8211; the first half of my two-parter on Radio 4 went out over the airwaves last night. You can listen to it here:

Part 2 is here.
It&#8217;s Radio 4&#8217;s &#8220;Choice of the Day&#8221; for Monday, and Phil Daoust made it pick of the day.
www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/mar/24/radio.tvandradioarts1
&#8220;Food is now a modern obsession,&#8221; says [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>38</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Hadacol Boogie &#8211; Radio 4 Quack Show Listen Again&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/03/the-hadacol-boogie/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2008/03/the-hadacol-boogie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre
The Guardian,
Monday March 24 2008
[This is much longer than the Guardian version]
Making a show for radio 4 on the history of diet fads [tonight Monday 24th at 8pm listen again here], I began to wonder what our modern gurus will come out with, when the cheques are all cashed, and the companies fold. Dudley [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Pep, zing, oomph, ker-ching. CoQ10.</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/03/pep-zing-oomph-ker-ching/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2008/03/pep-zing-oomph-ker-ching/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2008 02:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre
The Guardian,
Saturday March 15 2008
Doctors love pills: so do the public, and the media, and of course so do pill companies. When one pill dies, another must take its place. Are you feeling tired? Demotivated? I bet you are. But there is a solution &#8211; a pill &#8211; pushed by no less than Dr [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>47</slash:comments>
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		<title>Epistemological Indulgences</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/12/epistemological-indulgences/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2007/12/epistemological-indulgences/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2007 14:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre
The Guardian,
Saturday December 22 2007
Christmas is a time for harmless lies, the chocolatey indulgences of the thought world. We know when to stop, because if we all acted on our belief in Santa there would be no presents: and then Christmas would be meaningless.

My favourite Christmas traditions are the &#8220;red wine is good for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The fishy reckoning</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/09/the-fishy-reckoning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2007 01:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre
The Guardian
Saturday September 22 2007
So you will remember the fish oil pill stories of last year. For the new kids: pill company Equazen and Durham Council said they were doing a trial on them with their GCSE year, but it wasn&#8217;t really a proper trial, for example there was no control group, and they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new ethics of bullshit</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/06/a-new-ethics-of-bullshit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jun 2007 11:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre
Saturday June 23, 2007
The Guardian
I&#8217;m dispatching this column to you from the frontline of the healing fields at Glastonbury festival, where I can cheerfully offer aura reading, structural integrative massage, soul therapy in the pyramid healing space, happy footbaths, crystal magick, positive thinking yoga and angel therapy. In an angelically charged dome.
There are no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Ageing Breadhead Guy Is Totally Angry With Me</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/04/this-ageing-breadhead-guy-is-totally-angry-with-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2007 08:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Craig Sams is the founder of Green and Blacks. He made his money from chocolates, ice cream, and biscuits, and he is very angry with me for questioning the science behind Dr Gillian McKeith PhD and their corporate world.

This gem is from Natural Products magazine, the in-house trade publication of the nutritionism industry. I&#8217;ve included [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Pill Problem</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/03/the-pill-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2007 00:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre
Saturday March 31, 2007
The Guardian
Direct to consumer drug adverts in America are a proper joy, and especially the TV ones: your life is in disarray, your restless legs/migraine/cholesterol have taken over, all is panic, there is no sense any where. Then, when you take the right pill, suddenly the screen brightens up into a [...]]]></description>
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