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		<title>Sampling error, the unspoken issue behind small number changes in the news</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2011/08/untitled-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:51:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 20 August 2011 What do all these numbers mean? &#8220;&#8216;Worrying&#8217; jobless rise needs urgent action &#8211; Labour&#8221; was the BBC headline. They explained the problem in their own words: “The number of people out of work rose by 38,000 to 2.49 million in the three months to June, official figures [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The BBC have found someone whose cancer was cured by homeopathy</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2010/02/the-bbc-have-found-someone-whose-cancer-was-cured-by-homeopathy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ladies and Gentlemen, we have hit the bottom of the barrel. Homeopathy cured my cancer, on BBC News.]]></description>
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		<title>How dumb can one company be?</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2009/01/how-dumb-can-one-company-be/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday 10 January 2009 Obviously by now you can interpolate my views on detox: meaningless, symbolic, gimmicky shortlived health gestures with a built-in expiry date, when we could be reading about the NHS&#8217;s surprisingly useful website to help you stop smoking (do it now: smokefree.nhs.uk/), or lifestyle pieces on the joys [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientific proof that we live in a warmer and more caring universe</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/11/scientific-proof-that-we-live-in-a-warmer-and-more-caring-universe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2008/11/scientific-proof-that-we-live-in-a-warmer-and-more-caring-universe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre The Guardian Saturday November 29 2008 As usual, it’s not Watergate, it’s just slightly irritating. “Down’s births increase in a caring Britain”, said the Times: “More babies are being born with Down’s syndrome as parents feel increasingly that society is a more welcoming place for children with the condition.” That’s beautiful. “More mothers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The certainty of chance</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/09/the-certainty-of-chance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday September 6 2008 Britain&#8217;s happiest places have been mapped by scientists, according to the BBC: Edinburgh is the most miserable place in the country, and they were overbrimming with technical details on exactly how miserable we are in each area of Britain. The story struck a chord, and was lifted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dore &#8211; the media&#8217;s miracle cure for dyslexia</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/05/dore-the-medias-miracle-cure-for-dyslexia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 00:31:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do you judge if an intervention is effective when you hear about it in the media? Perhaps you tot up the balance of opinions. Perhaps you do it unconsciously. You might have noticed the Dore &#8220;miracle cure&#8221; for dyslexia, invented by millionaire paint entrepreneur Wynford Dore. It&#8217;s hard to ignore. In fact just recently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The amazing disappearing reappearing finger</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/05/pixie-dust-my-arse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 00:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday May 3 2008 Traditionally on May Day the fool plays at pratfalls and buffoonery around local morris dancers, brandishing his fool&#8217;s bauble, an inflated pig&#8217;s bladder on a stick, with which he bewitches and controls the crowds. To the uninitiated it looks like chaos, but for his own safety the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Pixie Dust helps man grow new finger&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/05/finger-bullshit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 13:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Very briefly &#8211; because this kind of thing irritates me so much that I can&#8217;t be bothered to devote a great deal of time to it &#8211; in almost every single newspaper and media outlet today you will read about the Pixie Dust which helped a man&#8217;s finger grow back: &#8220;The man who grew a [...]]]></description>
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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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		<title>BBC Editorial Complaints Unit debags the Panorama WiFi scare</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/bbc-editorial-complaints-unit-debags-the-panorama-wifi-scare/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/bbc-editorial-complaints-unit-debags-the-panorama-wifi-scare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You will remember Panorama&#8217;s WiFi program very clearly. Even the children in the school where they tried to film it spotted the problems with their methodology, and they were promptly booted out by a science teacher. I for one found those two little details truly mood enhancing, and you can read the full story here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More free energy now.</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/free-energy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2007 01:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre The Guardian Saturday November 10 2007 When it comes to creating energy you can&#8217;t make something out of nothing, says the BBC newsreader, from behind the very important desk&#8230; &#8220;Until now. Because British scientists seem to have turned this fundamental law of physics upside down.&#8221; The Mail on Sunday loved it even more. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And science said atom bombs were safe too&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/06/and-science-said-atom-bombs-were-safe-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2007 15:51:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in a dash, but I thought you deserved these two brave rebuttals of the peripheral criticisms that the ubiquitous electromagnetic radiation scaremongers have received. Jasper Carrott of all people on BBC2 (funny how despite being such a massive source of electromagnetic radiation they still have such a thing about beating people up over the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wi-Fi Wants To Kill Your Children&#8230; But Alasdair Philips of Powerwatch sells the cure!</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/05/so-simple-a-child-could-spot-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2007/05/so-simple-a-child-could-spot-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2007 23:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello visitors from boingboing/slashdot. I&#8217;m a doctor and I write in the Guardian and the BMJ about quackery, health scares, and pseudoscience in the media. Ben Goldacre Saturday May 26, 2007 The Guardian Won&#8217;t somebody, please, think of the children? Three weeks ago I received my favourite email of all time, from a science teacher. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Kenyon from BBC Panorama Responds on Wi-Fi Scare</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/05/paul-kenyon-from-panorama-responds-on-wi-fi-scare/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2007/05/paul-kenyon-from-panorama-responds-on-wi-fi-scare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2007 19:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just been sent this by the BBC publicity office, it is a response from Paul Kenyon, the presenter of the show, and very nice chap too. He is talking about the posts here and here. And remember &#8211; by the miracle of the interweb &#8211; this is the show he is talking about. Hi [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amusing Leaked Letter &#8211; BBC Panorama Wi-Fi &#8211; now updated with further response from BBC</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/05/leaked-letter-bbc-panorama-wi-fi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2007 16:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This has fallen into my hands. It is &#8211; I am informed &#8211; the letter that the BBC complaints people are planning to send to people if they complain about the ludicrous Panorama Wi-Fi show from Monday, featuring Alasdair Philips and electromagnetic hypersensitivity. I thought it might amuse you to know that it has apparently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You And Yours &#8211; An all time low in consumer reporting</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/05/an-all-time-low-in-consumer-reporting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2007/05/an-all-time-low-in-consumer-reporting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2007 11:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You and Yours has just broadcast one of the weakest pieces of journalism I have heard in a very long time. The Boots No7 face cream has precipitated a mass stampede of wrinkly ladies since it was endorsed by BBC Horizon: it is, people say, the only &#8220;scientifically proven&#8221; cream. The reaction of You and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maths Professor Divides By Zero, Says BBC</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/12/maths-professor-divides-by-zero-say-bbc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2006 10:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As an infinite number of people have emailed in to tell me over the past 15 minutes, there&#8217;s a maths professor in Reading who reckons he&#8217;s been teaching schoolchildren to divide by zero. I&#8217;m not saying this is necessarily unbridled nonsense, but it&#8217;s interesting, for starters, that this spectacular breakthrough has only been picked up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tesco Value Science</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/11/324/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Nov 2006 01:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben GoldacreSaturday November 18, 2006The Guardian I am going into PR: it&#39;s just too easy. Let&#39;s say you&#39;re running the account for some Tesco &#34;sports initiative&#34;. You&#39;re doing great work for the kids, but nobody cares, because it&#39;s just another corporate wheeze. You could always pay for adverts. Or you could just find an academic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BBC Judge John Deed, Anyone?</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/02/bbc-judge-john-deed-anyone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2006 00:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, here&#8217;s a problem. I got the email below from a reader last week, laying out his her concerns about irresponsible pseudoscience in Judge John Deed on BBC One. Apparently they do things like link phone masts to brain tumours and motor neurone disease, and promote some childish and destructive ideas about MMR. Obviously I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mystery Of The Steaming Turd</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/01/agatha-references/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2006/01/agatha-references/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday January 21, 2006 The Guardian I seem to have opened up a whole new front of bad science by looking into the high end hi-fi industry: but that will have to wait for next week. &#8220;Scientists claimed yesterday that they have solved the mystery behind the success of Agatha Christie&#8217;s novels,&#8221; says [...]]]></description>
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