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		<title>Why won&#8217;t Professor Susan Greenfield publish this theory in a scientific journal?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 21:43:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 22 October 2011 This week Baroness Susan Greenfield, Professor of pharmacology at Oxford, apparently announced that computer games are causing dementia in children. This would be very concerning scientific information: but it comes to us from the opening of a new wing at an expensive boarding school, not an academic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Experts say new scientific evidence helpfully justifies massive pre-existing moral prejudice.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday April 18, 2009 The Guardian Is it somehow possible – and I know I’m going out on a limb here – that journalists wilfully misinterpret and ignore scientific evidence, simply in order to generate stories that reflect their own political and cultural prejudices? Because my friend Martin, from the excellent layscience blog, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drink coffee, see dead people.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian, Saturday January 17 2009 Ben Goldacre &#8220;Danger from just 7 cups of coffee a day&#8221; said the Express on Wednesday. &#8220;Too much coffee can make you hallucinate and sense dead people say sleep experts. The equivalent of just seven cups of instant coffee a day is enough to trigger the weird responses.&#8221; The [...]]]></description>
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