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		<title>The stigma gene</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2010/10/pride-and-prejudice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 22:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 9 October 2010 What does it mean to say that a psychological or behavioural condition has a biological cause? Over the past week more battles have been raging over ADHD, after a paper published by a group of Cardiff researchers found evidence that there is a genetic association with the [...]]]></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>The Medicalisation of Everyday Life</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/09/the-medicalisation-of-everyday-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 05:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the pace of medical innovation slows to a crawl, how do drug companies stay in profit? By &#8216;discovering&#8217; new illnesses to fit existing products. But, says Ben Goldacre, in the second extract from his new book, for many problems the cure will never be found in a pill. Ben Goldacre The Guardian Monday September [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>53</slash:comments>
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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>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2008/03/pep-zing-oomph-ker-ching/#comments</comments>
		<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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		<slash:comments>47</slash:comments>
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		<title>Washing the numbers, selling the model</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/01/washing-the-numbers-selling-the-model/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2008/01/washing-the-numbers-selling-the-model/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday January 26 2008 If there&#8217;s one thing I love, it&#8217;s academics who take on the work of investigative journalism, because they are dogged. This has been a bad week for the SSRI antidepressants. First there&#8217;s the stuff you already know: bad data got buried. In a cracking new analysis of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More than molecules – how pill pushers and the media medicalise social problems [mp3 lecture]</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/01/mp3-lecture-more-than-molecules-%e2%80%93-how-pill-pushers-and-the-media-medicalise-social-problems/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2008/01/mp3-lecture-more-than-molecules-%e2%80%93-how-pill-pushers-and-the-media-medicalise-social-problems/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve got a whole bunch of mp3&#8242;s to post from last year, which I&#8217;ll start doing in dribs and drabs. Here&#8217;s a talk I gave in Brighton, or rather, here is a recording of my invited &#8220;President&#8217;s Lecture&#8221; at the British Pharmacology Society&#8217;s annual conference, which I suspect is a bit of an honour. The [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>27</slash:comments>
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		<title>BMJ Column &#8211; Beware of mentioning psychosocial factors</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/bmj-column-beware-of-mentioning-psychosocial-factors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/bmj-column-beware-of-mentioning-psychosocial-factors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How doctors describe the many interactions between a person, their illness, and society has little purchase in the crudely dualistic world of popular culture. Ben Goldacre Observations &#8211; Media watch BMJ 2007;335:801 (20 October) Although we are constantly told to &#8220;engage with the public,&#8221; many doctors and academics avoid the media like the plague. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medicalisation &#8211; don&#8217;t take it lying down.</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/09/542/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2007/09/542/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2007 01:34:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre The Guardian Saturday September 29 2007 One thing that always fascinates me, as I tug on my pipe in this armchair, is how reductionist, how mechanical, how sciencey and medical we like our stories about the body to be. This week a major new study was published on acupuncture. Many newspapers said it [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>84</slash:comments>
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		<title>The fishy reckoning</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/09/the-fishy-reckoning/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2007/09/the-fishy-reckoning/#comments</comments>
		<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>Patrick Holford&#8217;s untruthful and unsubstantiated claims about pills</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/09/patrick-holford-unsubstantiated-untruthful/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2007/09/patrick-holford-unsubstantiated-untruthful/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, you lot are seriously on a roll. Following a complaint from a badscience reader, the ASA have found that Patrick Holford made untruthful, unsubstantiated claims in a leaflet he was sending out. Pasted below is the full adjudication and also the original advert in question, so that you can decide for yourself about the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>25</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Pill Problem</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/03/the-pill-problem/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2007/03/the-pill-problem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2007 00:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday March 31, 2007 The Guardian Direct to consumer drug adverts in America are a proper joy, and especially the TV ones: your life is in disarray, your restless legs/migraine/cholesterol have taken over, all is panic, there is no sense any where. Then, when you take the right pill, suddenly the screen brightens [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I have nothing to declare but my cheekiness</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/05/i-have-nothing-to-declare-but-my-cheekiness/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2006/05/i-have-nothing-to-declare-but-my-cheekiness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 May 2006 01:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday May 20, 2006 The Guardian I am routinely accused, in long and angry letters, of being in the pay of the pharmaceutical industry, the mobile phone industry, and the government. Needless to say I lap it up, and would never engage in similarly ad hominem attacks in return, since critiques of character [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>120</slash:comments>
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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>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2006/05/attack-of-the-killer-kettles/#comments</comments>
		<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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		<slash:comments>172</slash:comments>
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		<title>Selling Sickness</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/04/selling-sickness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Apr 2006 03:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday April 15, 2006 The Guardian It&#8217;s not every day that you wake up to find that a favourite bÃªte noir is making headline news, but this week, to my amazement, the media collectively decided to pick up on an obscure report and conference on &#8220;medicalisation&#8221; in Australia. &#8220;Drug companies are inventing diseases [...]]]></description>
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