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		<title>How to read a paper</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2011/01/how-to-read-a-paper/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 00:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 29 January 2011 If science has any authority, it derives from transparency: you can check the claims against the working. Sometimes you hit a brick wall. Sometimes you might consider a shortcut. Let’s look at 3 types of checking. First up, in the Sun, a child has been born at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Experts say new scientific evidence helpfully justifies massive pre-existing moral prejudice.</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2009/04/experts-say-new-scientific-evidence-helpfully-justifies-massive-pre-existing-moral-prejudice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 04:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday April 18, 2009 The Guardian Is it somehow possible – and I know I’m going out on a limb here – that journalists wilfully misinterpret and ignore scientific evidence, simply in order to generate stories that reflect their own political and cultural prejudices? Because my friend Martin, from the excellent layscience blog, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Aric Sigman distorts the scientific evidence to mislead you.</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2009/02/the-evidence-aric-sigman-ignored/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:43:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was on newsnight a second ago, debating the rather indulgent claims of Baroness Professor Susan Greenfield and Dr Aric Sigman about Facebook and Twitter. It&#8217;s 40 minutes in to the show, which can be seen here as a wmv/rm file or here on iPlayer or here: I promised references. These can be found below. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s not my fault I fall into repetitive self parody. You started it.</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/12/its-not-my-fault-i-fall-into-repetitive-self-parody-you-started-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 23:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre The Guardian Saturday December 6 2008 Writing this column only really scares me because I wonder whether everything else in the media is as shamelessly, venally, manipulatively, one-sidedly, selectively reported on as the things I know about. I&#8217;m not going to go on about MMR again. But this week the reality editing was [...]]]></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>
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		<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>Haha w00t I am &#8220;Health Book Of The Week&#8221; in the Daily Mail</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/09/bad-science-reviewed-in-the-daily-mail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Click on the image to read it]. I don&#8217;t know how I managed to miss this, but my cheeky tome &#8220;Bad Science&#8221; was Health Book Of The Week in the Daily Mail last Tuesday. There are three things I find interesting about their review. 1. I am Health Book Of The Week in the Daily [...]]]></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>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>God delights as Pope transpires not to be total ass.</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/12/god-delights-as-pope-transpires-not-to-be-ass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2007 00:43:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday December 15 2007 &#8220;The Pope condemns the climate change prophets of doom,&#8221; roared the headline on Thursday. Basically if the Daily Mail goes out of business, I&#8217;ll have to give up this column. &#8220;Pope Benedict XVI has launched a surprise attack on climate change prophets of doom, warning them that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A rather long build up to one punchline</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/12/a-rather-long-build-up-to-one-punchline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2007 13:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday December 8 2007 The Daily Mail, as you know, is engaged in a philosophical project of mythic proportions: for many years now it has diligently been sifting through all the inanimate objects in the world, soberly dividing them into the ones which either cause &#8211; or cure &#8211; cancer. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here&#8217;s something you don&#8217;t see every day.</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/heres-something-you-dont-see-every-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:34:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jesus Christ, the Guardian sold the homeopathy pieces on to them&#8230; I&#8217;m in the Daily Mail. www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_article_id=496612&#038;in_page_id=1774 Things to notice include: 1. I am in the Daily Mail. 2. I managed to describe the media&#8217;s MMR hoax as &#8220;the media&#8217;s MMR hoax&#8221; in the Daily Mail. 3. This is almost as cool as the time [...]]]></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>Even&#8230; more&#8230; ludicrous teleology from evolutionary psychologists</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/even-more-ludicrous-teleology-from-evolutionary-psychologists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If academic funding was determined by newspaper coverage we would never research anything but MMR and evolutionary psychology. Which is fine. But if you&#8217;re going to tell teleological &#8220;just-so&#8221; stories about human behaviour, then you could at least make an effort, and try to maintain a degree of internal consistency. Today yet another puddle of [...]]]></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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Amazing Qlink Science Pedant</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/05/the-amazing-qlink-science-pedant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2007 02:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday May 19, 2007 The Guardian Normally I&#8217;d ignore quack medical devices, but when the catalogue from Health Products For Life &#8211; run by vitamin pill salesman Patrick Holford &#8211; arrived, I found an unexpected treat waiting for me. Among his usual &#8220;special formulation&#8221; pill-peddling banter, there was the QLink pendant, at just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dore &#8211; The Miracle Cure For Dyslexia</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/11/the-miracle-cure-for-dyslexia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Nov 2006 01:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday November 4, 2006 The Guardian Wouldn&#8217;t it be great if there really was an expensive proprietary cure for dyslexia? Oh hang on, there is: paint tycoon Wynford Dore has developed one, with NASA space technology. It&#8217;s only £1700, it has celebrity endorsements, it involves some special exercises, but it has been proven [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Quantitative Analysis Of The Frequency With Which One Company Is Promoted, And  By Whom, In UK National Newspapers UPDATED 30/9/06</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2006 18:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A Quantitative Analysis Of The Frequency With Which One Company Is Promoted, And By Whom, In UK National Newspapers&#8221; Updated 16th September 2006. Dr Ben Goldacre (Corresponding Author) Bad Science Research Institute, www.badscience.net ben@badscience.net Introduction. Susan Clark is an alternative therapy columnist who recently made a cheeky attack on her critics. It was subsequently noted [...]]]></description>
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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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s in the stars</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/09/289/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Sep 2006 00:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday September 2, 2006 The Guardian I see an angry balding premium-rate phoneline multi-millionaireâ€¦ Of course, Daily Mail astrologer Jonathan Cainer will already have predicted that I was going to write about him here today, so as you read this, I will be chewing my muesli and reading a simultaneous rebuttal to my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MMR Is Back</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 17:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre 3rd June 2006 The Guardian [Mmmm uh-oh I've just found out the Guardian newsdesk have cut this by 200 words while I was having an afternoon snooze. I can't bear to look. Anyway, here's what I wrote...] MMR is back. &#8220;US scientists back autism link to MMR&#8221; squealed the Telegraph. &#8220;Scientists fear MMR [...]]]></description>
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