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		<title>Dave Ford from Durham Council performs incompetent experiments on children.</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/09/dave-ford-from-durham-council-plays-at-being-a-scientist-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ You’ll remember the Durham fish oil “trial” story, possibly the greatest example of scientific incompetence ever documented from a local authority.
Initially they said &#8211; to blanket media coverage – that they were running a trial on fish oils, giving pills to 3,000 children to see if it improved GCSE performance. I pointed out, along [...]]]></description>
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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>
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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 1 2008
When you&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Now with audio &#8211; The Rise of the Lifestyle Nutritionists Part II &#8211; BBC Radio 4</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/03/8pm-bbc-radio-4-the-rise-of-the-lifestyle-nutritionists-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Busy bee today, sorry for the late link, the second part of the BBC Radio 4 two-part series &#8220;The Rise of the Lifestyle Nutritionists&#8221;  is going out at 8pm this evening, presented by yours truly (part one here) and produced by the excellently sharp Rami Tzabar from the BBC Radio Science Unit. I think [...]]]></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>
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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 it couldn&#8217;t possibly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The fishy reckoning</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/09/the-fishy-reckoning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2007 01:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre
The Guardian
Saturday September 22 2007
So you will remember the fish oil pill stories of last year. For the new kids: pill company Equazen and Durham Council said they were doing a trial on them with their GCSE year, but it wasn&#8217;t really a proper trial, for example there was no control group, and they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pushing The Habit</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/03/pushing-the-habit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre
Saturday March 17, 2007
The Guardian

In the pharmaceutical industry there are people called &#8220;drug reps&#8220;, who travel around doctors trying to &#8220;educate&#8221; them about their products. They actively foster an ignorance of scientific methodology, and much of what you get taught in medical school is about how to spot their complex fluffs. Luckily, when pill [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Surrogate Outcome Proves Something Beyond All Reasonable Human Doubt&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/03/surrogate-outcome-proves-something-beyond-all-reasonable-human-doubt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 08:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m very much looking forward to this important press release, of a study in 4 children, making massive international news. The experiment is part of the promotional activity for another omega-3 pill called VegEPA, and a Channel Five documentary on children and diet to be broadcast later this week: it is unpublished, and this time [...]]]></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 makes it a valuable [...]]]></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 demanding that their [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
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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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		<slash:comments>43</slash:comments>
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		<title>Just&#8230; Show&#8230; Me&#8230; The&#8230; Data&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/11/just-show-me-the-data/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2006/11/just-show-me-the-data/#comments</comments>
		<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 [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>190</slash:comments>
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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&#8217;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.
It [...]]]></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 that, but I [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2006/10/its-not-a-trial-wait-it-is-and-the-evidence-does-show-and-and-its-for-the-kids/#comments</comments>
		<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 to promote a [...]]]></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 indeed. 

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		<title>The Trial That Ate Itself</title>
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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 their GCSE&#8217;s, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beware alt.therapy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2005 14:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre
Thursday April 28, 2005
The Guardian
Â· Sometimes I have elaborate and grotesque fantasies about alternative therapists, like the reliably foolish Susan Clark from the Sunday Times&#8217; &#8220;What&#8217;s the alternative?&#8221; column. This week she was lecturing us on Omega-3 oils, in the pseudoscientific, jargon-laden, authoritarian rhetoric typical of the alternative therapies. They like to preserve the [...]]]></description>
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