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		<title>Attack of the wrinkled ladies</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/05/410/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2007 01:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre
Saturday May 5, 2007
The Guardian
Wrinkly ladies nationwide have coordinated a stampede for Boots No 7 Protect &#038; Perfect face cream, after it was endorsed by the BBC&#8217;s Horizon: so let&#8217;s do face creams. Basically they&#8217;re all the same. They all moisturise, like vaseline, but without the greasiness. And most also contain mashed up protein [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You And Yours &#8211; An all time low in consumer reporting</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/05/an-all-time-low-in-consumer-reporting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2007 11:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You and Yours has just broadcast one of the weakest pieces of journalism I have heard in a very long time. The Boots No7 face cream has precipitated a mass stampede of wrinkly ladies since it was endorsed by BBC Horizon: it is, people say, the only &#8220;scientifically proven&#8221; cream. 
The reaction of You and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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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>Sitting pretty</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2004/09/sitting-pretty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2004 15:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre
Thursday September 9, 2004
The Guardian
Â· I prostrate myself before you and admit defeat. I&#8217;ve been writing this column for nearly two years, and I still haven&#8217;t managed to stiff a single multinational cosmetics firm: they&#8217;re just too good at constructing legally defensible pseudoscience. I&#8217;m picturing huge laboratories and rows of scientists writing incomprehensible but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ladies&#8217; Pages</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2004/06/ladies-pages/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2004 16:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Laura Barton quotes me, very kindly.
As if by magic
So, there&#8217;s an instant potion for lean, toned thighs? Hmm, says Laura Barton
Monday June 7, 2004
The Guardian
As the season of swimsuits beckons, our thoughts naturally turn to Slimfast, Atkins and half-arsed intentions of taking the stairs &#8211; last-ditch efforts, of course, to acquire the thighs of Halle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friendly bacteria?</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2004/01/friendly-bacteria/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2004/01/friendly-bacteria/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2004 03:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friendly bacteria?
Ben Goldacre
Thursday January 29, 2004
The Guardian
Â· In the hands of a pseudoscientist, even morally neutral items like bacteria and salt can become &#8220;good&#8221; or &#8220;bad&#8221;. Paul Flowers writes in to tell us about Carex soap, available in his local pharmacy: &#8220;Carex effectively removes bad bacteria on hands, whilst gently protecting the good.&#8221; Presumably the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Because you&#8217;re worth it</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2003/11/because-youre-worth-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2003 03:33:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because you&#8217;re worth it
Ben Goldacre
Thursday November 27, 2003
The Guardian
Â· Reader Helen Porter writes in to tell me about the Ion-Conditioning Hairdryer, which uses &#8220;Patented Trionic Action&#8221; to &#8220;micronize&#8221; water molecules and, impressively for a hairdryer, magically hydrate your hair. The Journal of Trionic Physics, for those of you who thought they made those long words [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>DNA magic</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2003/11/dna-magic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2003 03:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DNA magic
Ben Goldacre
Thursday November 13, 2003
The Guardian
Talk bad science
Â· I was delighted to read in the journal Science that researchers from Stanford University in California have successfully created a form of &#8220;super DNA&#8221; that is larger than normal DNA and easier to study. Unfortunately for them, this isn&#8217;t the first time that DNA with amazing [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Swimming with sharks</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2003/10/swimming-with-sharks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2003/10/swimming-with-sharks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2003 03:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Swimming with sharks
Ben Goldacre
Thursday October 30, 2003
The Guardian
Talk bad science
Â· Dolphins will save us all, according to the International Journal of Bad Science &#8211; sorry, I mean the Express. &#8220;Swimming with dolphins is increasingly recognised as a therapy for clinical depression, autism, and other neurological conditions,&#8221; it says, before regaling us with tales of autistic [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Neutral whites</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2003/09/neutral-whites/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2003/09/neutral-whites/#comments</comments>
		<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 extract, well known to be [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Staying beautiful is easy to do</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2003/05/staying-beautiful-is-easy-to-do/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2003/05/staying-beautiful-is-easy-to-do/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2003 02:38:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Staying beautiful is easy to do
Ben Goldacre
Thursday May 1, 2003
The Guardian
New: Talk about Bad science
Â· It&#8217;s been a great week for Bad Science spotters. Bob Conklin writes in about Seasilver. Kirlian photography of your aura will demonstrate an &#8220;increase in energy&#8221; after taking it, and just one capful will deliver &#8220;EVERY [sic] vitamin, macro mineral, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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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>
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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 at the mere hint of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Be Very Afraid: The Bad Science Manifesto</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2003/04/be-very-afraid-the-bad-science-manifesto/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2003/04/be-very-afraid-the-bad-science-manifesto/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2003 02:42:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Be very afraid
Ben Goldacre
Thursday April 3, 2003
The Guardian
It was the MMR story that finally made me crack. My friends had always seemed perfectly rational: now, suddenly, they were swallowing media hysteria, hook, line and sinker. All sensible scientific evidence was twisted to promote fear and panic. I tried to reason with them, but they turned [...]]]></description>
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