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		<title>The Medicalisation of Everyday Life</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/09/the-medicalisation-of-everyday-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 05:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the pace of medical innovation slows to a crawl, how do drug companies stay in profit? By &#8216;discovering&#8217; new illnesses to fit existing products. But, says Ben Goldacre, in the second extract from his new book, for many problems the cure will never be found in a pill. Ben Goldacre The Guardian Monday September [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The trial that never was.</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/03/ding-dong-the-fish-is-dead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:16:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday March 29 2008 And so an epic saga comes to a close. You will remember the Durham Fish Oil tale &#8211; don&#8217;t switch off now, the punchline&#8217;s funny. The county council said it was doing a &#8220;trial&#8221; of fish oil pills in children, but the trial was designed so that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doctoring the records &#8211; Patrick Holford and Fuel PR</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/01/doctoring-the-records/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jan 2007 00:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read more on &#8220;Professor Patrick Holford&#8221; here, there, here, there, here and here. Ben Goldacre Saturday January 6, 2007 The Guardian It&#8217;s just not cool to anonymously edit your own Wikipedia page. It&#8217;s an online encyclopaedia, free to access, a tribute to the powers of the hive mind, and anyone can edit any page. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fish Oil Trials In Viz</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/11/fish-oil-trials-in-viz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2006 01:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t let me distract you from the important work in the other fish post, but you might have missed this from the current affairs monthly Viz, which was pointed out to me in the senior common room today: Give our kids brain boost oil. By our science correspondent Old Mother Shipton. Parents in Nottingham are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You vexatious TROUBLEMAKERS!</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/11/you-vexatious-troublemakers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:15:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hahahaha, well the struggle to get meaningful scientific information out of Madeleine Portwood et al in Durham regarding her famous positive fish oil &#8220;trials&#8221; continues. To me this is very simple. They talk about positive trial data, at length, for a long time, in the media. We want to see it. Portwood is eager to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just&#8230; Show&#8230; Me&#8230; The&#8230; Data&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Nov 2006 01:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben GoldacreSaturday November 11, 2006The Guardian I don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;ve ever tried using the Freedom of Information Act: it&#8217;s an excellent trouble making tool, and you do feel quite James Bond, but the act has its flaws. One being that if you ask for too much, as one lone, obsessive, disproportionately pedantic science columnist, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fish On The Radio</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/10/fish-on-the-radio/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2006 19:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t plan your day around it or anything but there is a v v v big fish thing on Radio 4&#8242;s You And Yours tomorrow, 30 minutes, focussing on the shenanigans about the trial, no wait, initiative, no, study, we&#8217;re measuring, well, we&#8217;re, yes, hang on yes we&#8217;re measuring results, no, hang on&#8230; in Durham. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Pill solves complex social problem&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/10/pill-solves-complex-social-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2006 10:26:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hhahahahhahahhahahaaa they can&#8217;t help themselves, they love it. Two features in the same day! Apparently there is a third to come. I haven&#8217;t been able to get out to the papers yet today, are these actually on different pages or are they part of the same feature? Please tell me they&#8217;re not two separate pieces. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s some data in here somewhere&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/10/trout-are-freshwater-fish-and-have-underwater-weapons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Oct 2006 00:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday October 7, 2006 The Guardian It is often unfairly assumed that I am a tenacious obsessive who refuses to let go. So at Durham council &#8211; as reported all over the newspapers and television &#8211; they&#8217;ve done loads of research on omega-3 fish oils making kids clever. It&#8217;s all very well saying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;It&#8217;s not a trial&#8230; wait&#8230; it is&#8230; and the evidence does show&#8230; and&#8230; and it&#8217;s for the KIDS&#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/10/its-not-a-trial-wait-it-is-and-the-evidence-does-show-and-and-its-for-the-kids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2006 00:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kelliher&#8217;s been busy with letters@guardian.co.uk It&#8217;s a definite improvement on the really rather revolting blog postings from the Portwood camp but addresses none of the interesting questions, and simply re-states the blander aspects of the case which have already been torpedoed. There are now much more interesting things to say on this than go over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Pharma And Pill Peddlers</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/09/big-pharma-and-pill-peddlers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Sep 2006 01:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday September 23, 2006 The Guardian So where were we? Oh yes. Durham Council is running a highly dubious &#8220;trial&#8221; of a food supplement that is methodologically crippled, and largely incapable of giving meaningful data, but in the process Durham Council staff are appearing all over the papers and television in news stories [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking Deeper Into My Fishy New Friends</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/09/looking-deeper-into-my-new-fishy-friends/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Sep 2006 01:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday September 16, 2006 The Guardian Regular readers will have established by now that most journalists are so scientifically inept, and so eager to run with â€œpill solves complex social problemâ€ stories, that companies like Equazen selling their Eye-Q fish oil tablets for children with blanket media coverage can come out very nicely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Trial That Ate Itself</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/09/the-trial-that-ate-itself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Sep 2006 00:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday September 9, 2006 The Guardian Fish oil is clearly a matter of huge national importance. Channel 4 and ITV (and the Daily Mail, and the BBC) all report on a plan by education officials in County Durham to give £1 million worth of omega-3 fish oils, to 5,000 children as they approach [...]]]></description>
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