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	<title>Bad Science &#187; magnets</title>
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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>Perpetual truths</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/07/steorn-perpetual-motion-machine-demo-fails-astonishingly-to-materialise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2007 00:53:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday July 7, 2007 The Guardian You might remember an Irish company called Steorn: in August 2006 they took out a full page advert in the Economist to announce that they had discovered a source of free energy, a perpetual motion machine no less, in triumphant defiance of that stuffy first law of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bring me a God helmet, and bring it now</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/06/bring-me-a-god-helmet-and-bring-it-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 23:43:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday June 17, 2006 The Guardian One of the biggest disappointments of my so-called adult life is the sad realisation that I can neither fly nor move objects with the power of my mind. This definitely sucks. But for all their broken promises, as the prison ships become more and more crowded, when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Animal Magnetism</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/03/animal-magnetism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Mar 2006 00:48:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday March 11, 2006 The Guardian So last week, it was all about the magnetic ulcer bandages that were suddenly officially available on the NHS: they are made by Magnopulse, who also sell a magnet for the ladies that will give you &#8220;softer skin, shiny hair and stronger nails&#8221;, and a dog bowl [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Magnetic Sex Appea&#8230; Shhhh</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/03/magnetic-sex-appeal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Mar 2006 00:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday March 4, 2006 The Guardian If there&#8217;s one thing that irritates a scientist, it&#8217;s not knowing. This week, the Prescription Pricing Authority decided to authorise magnetic bandages for ulcer treatment on the NHS: and I have no idea why. They won&#8217;t tell me what the presented evidence was, because that&#8217;s not their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Magnet Therapy On The NHS</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/02/magnet-therapy-on-the-nhs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2006 15:37:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amusing to see that the NHS Prescription Pricing Authority have apparently put Magnet Bandages on the formulary: www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2058902,00.html (Even more amusing to see the Times mentioning that old &#8220;iron in blood is magnetic&#8221; chestnut again). What&#8217;s interesting to me about this is that it may be the first time the PPA have put something on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just Keep Wearing The Tinfoil Hats</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2005/12/just-keep-wearing-the-hats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2005 00:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday December 10, 2005 The Guardian The reason that I am so fabulously wealthy (girls) is, of course, that I am paid by the government and the pharmaceutical industry to rubbish alternative therapies and MMR conspiracy theorists, and thusly maintain what you clever humanities graduates like to call &#8220;the hegemony&#8221;. After last weeks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is science? First, magnetise your wine &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2005/12/what-is-science-first-magnetise-your-wine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2005/12/what-is-science-first-magnetise-your-wine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2005 06:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday December 3, 2005 The Guardian People often ask me [pulls pensively on pipe] &#8220;what is science?&#8221; And I reply thusly: science is exactly what we do in this column. We take a claim, and we pull it apart to extract a clear scientific hypothesis, like &#8220;homeopathy makes people better faster than placebo&#8221; [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2005/10/oh-what-a-tangled-web-is-being-weaved-on-the-bbc-health-site/#comments</comments>
		<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>Straight jabs</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2005/01/straight-jabs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2005 15:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Thursday January 13, 2005 The Guardian People sometimes say to me, &#8220;I enjoy Bad Science, but often the jokes go right over my head, which makes me worry that I must be ignorant.&#8221; To which I always reply: &#8220;Good.&#8221; Over to reader Anne Pickard: &#8220;Unable to get a copy of our Saturday Guardian, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>That floaty feeling</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2004/06/that-floaty-feeling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2004 04:21:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That floaty feeling Ben Goldacre Thursday June 3, 2004 The Guardian Talk about bad science here Â· You won&#8217;t be surprised that I get a lot of critical email. This is very embarrassing, but it&#8217;s best that I put my hands up and admit it: last week, I was wrong. In my defence, I am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>That floaty feeling</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2004/06/that-floaty-feeling-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2004 16:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Thursday June 3, 2004 The Guardian Â· You won&#8217;t be surprised that I get a lot of critical email. This is very embarrassing, but it&#8217;s best that I put my hands up and admit it: last week, I was wrong. In my defence, I am a very angry man, but that&#8217;s no excuse [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letters</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2004/06/letters-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2004 16:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Strong magnets can affect blood Thursday June 3, 2004 The Guardian Although blood does not appear to be magnetic at common levels of magnetism, I believe you are wrong to say it is not affected by magnetism at all (Bad Science, May 27). With a sufficient magnetic field it is possible to levitate any material, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blood&#8217;s a bad science magnet</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2004/05/bloods-a-bad-science-magnet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2004 04:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blood&#8217;s a bad science magnet Ben Goldacre Thursday May 27, 2004 The Guardian Talk about bad science here Â· No bad science this week: the world has changed. Only kidding. David Pack sends me a fabulous leaflet he picked up in a Cambridge library recently on Energy Interference Patterning of DNA. &#8220;If you find yourself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blood&#8217;s a bad science magnet</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2004/05/bloods-a-bad-science-magnet-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2004 16:06:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Thursday May 27, 2004 The Guardian Â· No bad science this week: the world has changed. Only kidding. David Pack sends me a fabulous leaflet he picked up in a Cambridge library recently on Energy Interference Patterning of DNA. &#8220;If you find yourself in situations that cause irritated or defensive reactions&#8230;&#8221; That&#8217;s me. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas presents to avoid</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2003/12/christmas-presents-to-avoid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2003 03:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christmas presents to avoid Ben Goldacre Thursday December 18, 2003 The Guardian Â· Our spies are everywhere and it seems last week&#8217;s ludicrous &#8220;salt crystal lamp&#8221; is also being sold, of all places, in the Science Museum gift catalogue. Call me a pedant if you will, but I&#8217;m not sure it&#8217;s entirely to the good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The homeopaths strike back</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2003/10/the-homeopaths-strike-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2003 03:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The homeopaths strike back Ben Goldacre Thursday October 2, 2003 The Guardian Â· You probably don&#8217;t have to be a physics expert like bad science spotter Professor Donald Simanek to spot that the new Â£2 coin, celebrating our scientific heritage, has an odd number of gears interlocking around the edge, creating a system that could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Neutral whites</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2003/09/neutral-whites/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2003 03:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Neutral whites Ben Goldacre Thursday September 4, 2003 The Guardian Talk bad science Â· When I was a lad, washing powder adverts were all about men in white coats on housewives&#8217; doorsteps; now international biotech firms have to wear a kaftan and beads just to get your attention. New Persil Aloe Vera contains &#8220;Aloe Vera [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The blatant blanket blag</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2003/08/the-blatant-blanket-blag/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2003 03:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[alternative medicine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bad science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[magnets]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The blatant blanket blag Ben Goldacre Thursday August 28, 2003 The Guardian Talk bad science Â· My informants send news of the new Magneto-Tex blankets, available for only Â£399. They have set themselves apart from other magnet therapies (many of which have been successfully prosecuted for fraud in the US) by offering &#8220;patented alternating magnets&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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