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		<title>LBC, MMR, Jeni Barnett, an Early Day Motion, the Times, and, er, a bit of Stephen Fry&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2009/02/lbc-mmr-jeni-barnett-an-early-day-motion-the-times-and-er-a-bit-of-stephen-fry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought since a few days have passed that I should let you know what&#8217;s happening with the slightly ridiculous LBC situation. If you skip to the bottom you will find a discussion on some mischievous activism which I think has great potential. Since LBC unwisely threw their legal weight around to prevent you from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blame everyone but yourselves</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/07/blame-everyone-but-yourselves/</link>
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		<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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Millecam</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/06/millecam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.badscience.net/?p=441</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Not sure if there are many Millecam articles around in English, this translation emailed in to me, so I&#8217;m bunging it up here for archive/interest really, let me know if there are more? Not that I&#8217;m a professional translater by any means, but I&#8217;d like to think I&#8217;ve done a better job than babel fish [...]]]></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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Blairs&#8217; Witch Project</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/05/the-blairs-witch-project/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2007/05/the-blairs-witch-project/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2007 23:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday May 12, 2007 The Guardian So normally you just wouldn&#8217;t bother with the New Age stuff. The people are pretty friendly and harmless, and they tend not to make too many scientific claims. But Tony Blair stepped over some pretty significant lines. In 2002 he refused to say whether his son Leo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new all-time low</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/01/a-new-all-time-low-from-the-nutritionists/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2007/01/a-new-all-time-low-from-the-nutritionists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jan 2007 00:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday January 20, 2007 The Guardian If you think the nutritionists and vitamin peddlers in the UK are weird, you really want to go to South Africa, where President Thabo Mbeki has a long history of siding with the HIV denialists, who believe that HIV does not cause Aids (but that treatments for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Hampstead to Cape Town</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/08/from-hampstead-to-cape-town/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2006/08/from-hampstead-to-cape-town/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2006 23:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday August 26th, 2006 The Guardian What happens if you transplant western ideas like nutritionism, and anti-vaccination panics, into a developing world context? Unfortunately thatâ€™s not a thought experiment. Between 600 and 800 people die every day in South Africa from HIV/AIDS, and their government was roundly criticised at last weeks International AIDS [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prohibition Vs the Gold Standard</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/08/prohibition-vs-the-gold-standard/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2006/08/prohibition-vs-the-gold-standard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Aug 2006 01:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday August 5, 2006 The Guardian Certain areas of human conduct lend themselves so readily to bad science that you have to wonder if there is a pattern emerging. Last week the parliamentary science and technology committee looked into the ABC classification of illegal drugs, and found it was rubbish. This is not [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2006/06/now-look-what-youve-made-me-do/#comments</comments>
		<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>I have nothing to declare but my cheekiness</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/05/i-have-nothing-to-declare-but-my-cheekiness/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2006/05/i-have-nothing-to-declare-but-my-cheekiness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 May 2006 01:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday May 20, 2006 The Guardian I am routinely accused, in long and angry letters, of being in the pay of the pharmaceutical industry, the mobile phone industry, and the government. Needless to say I lap it up, and would never engage in similarly ad hominem attacks in return, since critiques of character [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2006/02/resistance-is-worse-than-useless/#comments</comments>
		<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>Don&#8217;t dumb me down</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2005/09/dont-dumb-me-down/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2005/09/dont-dumb-me-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2005 23:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We laughed, we cried, we learned about statistics &#8230; Ben Goldacre on why writing Bad Science has increased his suspicion of the media by, ooh, a lot of per cents Ben Goldacre Thursday September 8, 2005 The Guardian OK, here&#8217;s something weird. Every week in Bad Science we either victimise some barking pseudoscientific quack, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nutritionist-free diets</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2005/06/nutritionist-free-diets-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2005 14:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Thursday June 2, 2005 The Guardian Talk about bad science Â· OK, hands up. I hate nutritionists and phoney diet marketers. I hate them because they confuse evidence and theory. I hate them because they make sweeping assertions that something will work in the real world on the basis of tenuous laboratory data. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Risk of infection</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2005/05/risk-of-infection/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2005/05/risk-of-infection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2005 14:36:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Thursday May 26, 2005 The Guardian Â· I&#8217;d like to open with a sanctimonious moment. I don&#8217;t expect anyone else in the world to follow suit, but from now on, if I refer to published academic research, I&#8217;ll be giving the full reference, at the foot of the column if there&#8217;s space, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Nutritionism&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2005/03/nutritionism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2005 14:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nutritional information Ben Goldacre Thursday March 3, 2005 The Guardian Â· I hereby take the credit for coining the term Nutritionism: &#8220;The practice of promoting flimsily unevidenced assertions about the benefits of expensive supplements, or shortlived and unhelpfully overcomplicated eating fads, in healthy or ill individuals.&#8221; I accused Angela Dowden of just this. &#8220;Where have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mixing medicines</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2004/11/mixing-medicines/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2004/11/mixing-medicines/#comments</comments>
		<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>The not so posh Kettle Chips</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2004/10/the-not-so-posh-kettle-chips/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2004/10/the-not-so-posh-kettle-chips/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Thursday October 21, 2004 The Guardian Â· Let me take you back two weeks, to the story of Kettle Chips. They are running a slightly improbable ad campaign, slogan &#8220;No Science, No Fiction, Just Real&#8221;, in which food science technology is the bad guy and high salt, high fat, low nutrient, mass produced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s the bad guy?</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2004/10/whos-the-bad-guy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2004/10/whos-the-bad-guy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2004 15:34:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Thursday October 7, 2004 The Guardian Â· What is science? A set of techniques, perhaps, for approaching a problem, or examining and describing the world. It informs, but is different from, technology, which in turn lets us do things like fly disaster rescue missions, phone our parents or manufacture processed junk food, each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s all in the title</title>
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		<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>Bushwhacked</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2004/07/bushwhacked/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2004 15:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Thursday July 15, 2004 The Guardian Â· Pointing out that the current American government is manipulative, deceitful and interventionist is hardly news: although it hadn&#8217;t occurred to naive little me that it&#8217;d started meddling in science. The Bush administration has decreed that the World Health Organisation must clear US government-funded researchers with the [...]]]></description>
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