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		<title>Hot foul air</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/11/hot-foul-air/</link>
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		<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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		<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>What&#8217;s wrong with Dr Gillian McKeith PhD?</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/02/ms-gillian-mckeith-banned-from-calling-herself-a-doctor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2007 00:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For years, &#8216;Dr&#8217; Gillian McKeith has used her title to sell TV shows, diet books and herbal sex pills. Now the Advertising Standards Authority has stepped in. Yet the real problem is not what she calls herself, but the mumbo-jumbo she dresses up as scientific fact, says Ben Goldacre Ben Goldacre Monday February 12, 2007 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Awful Poo Lady</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/09/break-out-the-sideburns-its-gillian-the-victorian-doctor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Sep 2006 02:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday September 30, 2006 The Guardian I wouldn&#8217;t want you to think that I&#8217;m an overly sensitive person, but sometimes I get a bit upset by Dr Gillian McKeith PhD. There she is on the television, talking about science, making an obese woman cry, in her own back garden, by showing her a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Red Baron</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/07/the-red-baron/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jul 2006 11:27:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Nutrition Society was founded in 1941 by Lord Boyd Orr. He was described in his obituary &#8211; rather fabulously &#8211; as â€œBaron and Nutritional Physiologistâ€ and in 1949 he casually picked up a Nobel Peace Prize. Since his time, the Nutrition Society seems to have gone rather badly downhill. Here is a website, for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Two Headed Food Monster</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/06/the-two-headed-food-monster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2006 22:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday July 1, 2006 The Guardian Last year I noticed that lots of the lifestyle bunnies in the press and on the internet were suddenly showing off about being â€œRNutrâ€ or â€œRegistered Nutritionistsâ€. Registered with whom? Imagine a two-headed monster called â€œThe Nutrition Societyâ€. On the one hand, they are a respectable and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When in doubt, call yourself a doctor</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/04/when-in-doubt-call-yourself-a-doctor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Apr 2006 23:38:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday April 22, 2006 The Guardian So here&#8217;s a tangled web, and frankly I don&#8217;t think anybody comes out of it looking too good, including me. Yes We Can Cure ADHD, read the Daily Mail last week. Now I know what you&#8217;re thinking. Like a magnificently drunk girlfriend, you&#8217;re shouting: &#8220;Leave it, he&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How many microbiologists does it take to change a tabloid story?</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2005/11/how-many-microbiologists-does-it-take-to-change-a-tabloid-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2005 12:28:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday November 19, 2005 The Guardian I realise this is starting to look like some kind of dirty protest, but here is a window on to how the media sees itself in relation to scientific expertise, and how it copes with criticism, which just happens &#8211; entirely by coincidence &#8211; to involve the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After feeding the scare he&#8217;ll sell you the solution</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2005/10/after-feeding-the-scare-hell-sell-you-the-solution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2005 08:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday October 29, 2005 The Guardian Some might suggest that I don&#8217;t know when to stop. And so we begin our third consecutive column on Dr Chris Malyszewicz and his Northants-based Chemsol Consulting: the tabloids&#8217; favourite microbiology laboratory, the lab that gives positive MRSA swab results for undercover journalists who want dirty hospital [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The man behind the Mop of Death</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2005/10/the-man-behind-the-mop-of-death/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2005 08:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday October 22, 2005 The Guardian Right. Where were we? Oh yes: there is a small unaccredited laboratory in Northants called Chemsol, run by a man with a non-accredited correspondence-course PhD and no formal microbiology training, and he seems to find MRSA in hospitals where other accredited labs, in universities and the like, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lab that finds bugs where others do not</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2005/10/lab-that-finds-bugs-where-others-do-not/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2005 12:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday October 15, 2005 The Guardian A while ago an investigative television journalist friend rang me up. &#8220;I just went undercover to take some MRSA swabs for my filthy hospital superbug scandal,&#8221; he said, &#8220;but they all came back negative. What am I doing wrong?&#8221; Always happy to help, I suggested he swab [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cranky to fashionable in five iffy claims</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2005/10/cranky-to-fashionable-in-five-iffy-claims/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2005 03:04:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday October 8, 2005 The Guardian I think I&#8217;m being stalked by a famous media naturopath. First he taunts me through Newsnight: &#8220;When Michael van Straten started writing about the magical medicinal powers of fruit juices, he was considered a crank, but now he finds he&#8217;s at the forefront of fashion.&#8221; Notice how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tangled Webs</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2005/10/oh-what-a-tangled-web-is-being-weaved-on-the-bbc-health-site/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2005 00:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday October 1, 2005 The Guardian The plot around a BBC online health correspondent gets thicker. Last week, you will recall, we were pondering the ethics and wisdom of Jacqueline Young dishing out preposterous, made-up, pseudoscientific nonsense as if it was authoritative BBC fact, with phrases such as: &#8220;Implosion researchers have found that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Imploding Researchers</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2005/09/imploding-researchers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2005 12:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian &#124; Saturday September 24 2005 Ben Goldacre The au pair said something very funny about my dinner parties the other day: oh hang on, wrong column. Didn&#8217;t they tell you? We&#8217;re all written by the same person. So I&#8217;ve been reading the BBC&#8217;s health website â€” on the importance of drinking water â€” [...]]]></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>
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		<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>Hard to swallow</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2005/08/hard-to-swallow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:54:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Thursday August 18, 2005 The Guardian Â· Pity the sensible alternative therapist, for they are in a unique and impossible position. On the one hand, they want to be scientific, evidence-based and conservative in what they say. On the other, they have to talk up the myths around their treatments, to maintain the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vital statistics</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2005/06/vital-statistics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2005 13:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Thursday June 23, 2005 The Guardian Â· Of course, the past two years of Bad Science was nothing more than a cover for the &#8220;popular statistics&#8221; lecture series I really wanted to give, but knew I could never sell to a newspaper. So, on to Professor Roy Meadows and Meadows&#8217; Law, that: &#8220;One [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protect your boundaries with agate</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2005/04/protect-your-boundaries-with-agate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2005 14:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Thursday April 14, 2005 The Guardian Â· After years of hand-wringing about the decay of post-enlightenment rationalist values I&#8217;m beginning to wonder whether all is well, and the choice of alternative health guff in the Daily Express is deliberate parody. There is no other explanation for this week&#8217;s article entitled Embrace the power [...]]]></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>A varying degree</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2005/02/a-varying-degree/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2005 20:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Thursday February 10, 2005 Men are from Mars, and Women are from Venus. Not only did this thesis shift 30m books for Dr John Gray, PhD, it has also provided the branding for his new, exciting diet plan based on Mars and Venus Supershakes. Gray&#8217;s PhD, meanwhile, is from California. Columbia Pacific University, [...]]]></description>
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