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		<title>How to read a paper</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 00:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Don&#8217;t let the facts spoil a good story</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oops sorry, in all the excitement about Matthias Rath I forgot to post last week&#8217;s column, here it is. Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday September 13 2008 Here is a cautionary tale for anyone working in research. &#8220;Captain Cook and Lord Nelson seem unlikely figureheads in the fight against climate change alarmists,&#8221; said the Sun. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The amazing disappearing reappearing finger</title>
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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>
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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 man behind the Mop of Death</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2005 08:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday October 22, 2005 The Guardian Right. Where were we? Oh yes: there is a small unaccredited laboratory in Northants called Chemsol, run by a man with a non-accredited correspondence-course PhD and no formal microbiology training, and he seems to find MRSA in hospitals where other accredited labs, in universities and the like, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lab that finds bugs where others do not</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2005 12:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday October 15, 2005 The Guardian A while ago an investigative television journalist friend rang me up. &#8220;I just went undercover to take some MRSA swabs for my filthy hospital superbug scandal,&#8221; he said, &#8220;but they all came back negative. What am I doing wrong?&#8221; Always happy to help, I suggested he swab [...]]]></description>
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