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		<title>This is my column. This is my column on drugs. Any questions?</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2009/06/this-is-my-column-this-is-my-column-on-drugs-any-questions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre
Saturday 13 June 2009
The Guardian
In areas of moral and political conflict people will always behave badly with evidence, so the war on drugs is a consistent source of entertainment. We have already seen how cannabis being “25 times stronger” was a fantasy, how drugs-related deaths were quietly dropped from the outcome measures for drugs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A rock of crack as big as the Ritz</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2009/02/a-rock-of-crack-as-big-as-the-ritz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 02:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre
Saturday February 21 2009
The Guardian
In a week where our dear Daily Mail ran with the headline &#8220;How using Facebook could raise your risk of cancer&#8221;, I will exercise some self control, and write about drugs instead.
&#8220;Seven hundred British troops seized four Taliban narcotics factories containing £50m of drugs&#8221; said the Guardian on Wednesday. &#8220;Troops [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>63</slash:comments>
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		<title>The least surrogate outcome</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/04/the-least-surrogate-outcome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre
The Guardian,
Saturday April 5 2008
There&#8217;s this vague idea &#8211; which has been going around for the past few centuries &#8211; that statistics is quite difficult. But in reality the maths is often the least of your problems: the tricky bit comes way before the number crunching, when you are deciding what to measure, how [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>Trivial Disputes</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/02/trivial-disputes-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 04:14:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are no difficult ideas in this column. Like, for example, when I tell you about the Daily Telegraph front page headline which says &#8220;Abuse of cannabis puts 500 a week in hospital&#8221;, and it turns out they&#8217;re actually quoting a figure from a report on the number of people having contact with any drug [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>47</slash:comments>
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		<title>Blah blah cannabis blah blah blah</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2007 01:24:57 +0000</pubDate>
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Saturday July 28 2007
You know when cannabis hits the news you&#8217;re in for a bit of fun, and this week&#8217;s story about cannabis causing psychosis was no exception. The paper was a systematic review and then a &#8220;meta-analysis&#8221; of the data which has already been collected, looking at whether people who smoke cannabis are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reefer Badness</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2007 01:09:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre
Saturday March 24, 2007
The Guardian
The more I see of the world [looks pensively out of window] the more it strikes me that people seem to want more science, rather than less, and to deploy it in odd ways: to abrogate responsibility; to validate a hunch; to render a political or cultural prejudice in deceptively [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>71</slash:comments>
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		<title>Laugh? I nearly died.</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/03/laugh-i-nearly-died/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:18:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre
Saturday March 10, 2007
The Guardian 
Obviously nobody is more worried than I about the hippie crack epidemic: nitrous oxide â€“ better known as laughing gas &#8211; has hit the news, after the death of a man with a plastic bag over his head, and a cannister of the drug connected to himself. 

Now, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heroin On Prescription</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/11/methadone-and-heroin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Nov 2006 00:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suddenly heroin prescription is back in the news, so here&#8217;s an archaeological find from the hard-drive: an essay I wrote in praise of heroin prescription, for the &#8220;Roger Hole Essay Prize in Medical Scepticism&#8221;, as a young undergraduate in medicine, in 1998. The prize was judged by Lewis Wolpert, and winning it netted me the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>32</slash:comments>
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		<title>Prohibition Vs the Gold Standard</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/08/prohibition-vs-the-gold-standard/</link>
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		<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 an article [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>68</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8220;Cocaine Floods The Playground&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/03/cocaine-floods-the-playground/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Mar 2006 23:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre
Saturday April 1, 2006
The Guardian
Nothing comes for free: if you can cope with 400 words on statistics, we can trash a front page news story together. &#8220;Cocaine floods the playground,&#8221; roared the front page of the Times last Friday. &#8220;Use of the addictive drug by children doubles in a year.&#8221;
Doubles? Now that was odd, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>123</slash:comments>
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