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		<title>&quot;Public opinion has moved sharply in favour of assisted suicide, according to a poll for The Sunday Times.&quot;</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/12/public-opinion-has-moved-sharply-in-favour-of-assisted-suicide-according-to-a-poll-for-the-sunday-times/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 04:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was delighted to discover this week that the Times have started an innovative new column entitled &#8220;Bad Statistics&#8221;. It seems to me to be somewhat lacking in thoroughness. I should like to submit for their consideration an article from the Sunday Times on the 14th of December. The opening sentence is: &#8220;Public opinion has [...]]]></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>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>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>Pep, zing, oomph, ker-ching. CoQ10.</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/03/pep-zing-oomph-ker-ching/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2008 02:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday March 15 2008 Doctors love pills: so do the public, and the media, and of course so do pill companies. When one pill dies, another must take its place. Are you feeling tired? Demotivated? I bet you are. But there is a solution &#8211; a pill &#8211; pushed by no [...]]]></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>
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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 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>Science told: hands off gay sheep &#8211; updated</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/01/science-told-hands-off-gay-sheep/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday January 13, 2007 The Guardian &#8220;Science told: hands off gay sheep.&#8221; It&#8217;s hard to think of a headline more joyous than this classic from the Sunday Times. Apparently a scientist called Professor Charles Roselli is conducting cruel and gruesome experiments on sheep in the name of eradicating homosexuality. Unfortunately this &#8220;news&#8221; story, [...]]]></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>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/09/a-quantitative-analysis-of-the-frequency-with-which-one-company-is-promoted-and-by-whom-in-uk-national-newspapers/</link>
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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>&#8220;Now Look What You&#8217;ve Made Me Do&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/06/now-look-what-youve-made-me-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2006 10:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poor old Susan Clark, previously a regular Bad Science target when she was writing &#8220;What&#8217;s The Alternative&#8221; in the Sunday Times, she is now in a position of total safety at The Observer. Apparently in the past the poor thing has had such a hammering for her advice on malaria medication, that now her readers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MMR Is Back</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 17:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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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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		<title>Factors that risk being left out of the equation</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/05/attack-of-the-killer-kettles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 May 2006 21:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday May 13, 2006 The Guardian &#8220;Electromagnetic fields stemming from gadgets such as kettles, computers and microwaves, contribute towards a cloud of unseen emissions &#8211; even when they are switched off.&#8221; It&#8217;s a sinister idea, and &#8220;Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity&#8221; is sweeping the nation, or at least the Independent and the Daily Mail last week. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And now the news</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 May 2006 16:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday May 6, 2006 The Guardian And now here&#8217;s the news they didn&#8217;t tell you. You might remember the scare stories about mercury fillings from the past two decades: they come around every few years, usually accompanied by a personal anecdote, where fatigue, dizziness and headaches are all vanquished with the removal of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Cocaine Floods The Playground&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/03/cocaine-floods-the-playground/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Mar 2006 23:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday April 1, 2006 The Guardian Nothing comes for free: if you can cope with 400 words on statistics, we can trash a front page news story together. &#8220;Cocaine floods the playground,&#8221; roared the front page of the Times last Friday. &#8220;Use of the addictive drug by children doubles in a year.&#8221; Doubles? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Tamiflu Vaccine Scare</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/02/the-great-tamiflu-vaccine-scare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2006 13:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday February 18, 2006 The Guardian The interesting thing about the Tamiflu vaccine for bird flu that everybody keeps going on about, is this: it&#8217;s not a vaccine. The manufacturers even spell that out in their factsheet. It&#8217;s a drug, an antibiotic for viruses. But you wouldn&#8217;t know that if you read Paul [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resistance is worse than useless</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/02/resistance-is-worse-than-useless/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2006 01:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday February 11, 2006 The Guardian Let me take you back to 2005, and one of several Bad Science stories about Susan Clark and her What&#8217;s The Alternative column in the Sunday Times. She&#8217;s no longer in that post &#8211; if you&#8217;re lucky we&#8217;ll have room to talk about her successor soon &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mystery Of The Steaming Turd</title>
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		<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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		<title>Don&#8217;t dumb me down</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2005 23:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We laughed, we cried, we learned about statistics &#8230; Ben Goldacre on why writing Bad Science has increased his suspicion of the media by, ooh, a lot of per cents Ben Goldacre Thursday September 8, 2005 The Guardian OK, here&#8217;s something weird. Every week in Bad Science we either victimise some barking pseudoscientific quack, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Never as bad as it looks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2005 03:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Thursday September 1, 2005 The Guardian Â· &#8220;One of Britain&#8217;s most widely prescribed antidepressants has been linked to a seven-fold increase in suicide attempts.&#8221; Hold the front page! Oh hang on, it&#8217;s on the front page of the Times already. &#8220;An analysis of trials for Seroxat involving more than 1,500 patients found seven [...]]]></description>
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