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	<title>Bad Science &#187; onanism</title>
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		<title>Great piece in .net magazine about nerdydaytrips.com</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2011/10/great-piece-in-net-magazine-about-nerdydaytrips-com/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2011/10/great-piece-in-net-magazine-about-nerdydaytrips-com/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi, just to say, there&#8217;s a great piece in this month&#8217;s .net magazine about www.nerdydaytrips.com, the crowd-sourced dorky-days-out Why-Don&#8217;t-You project I built with Applecado, Aaron Rudd, and Jo Brodie. Snippet: Tanya Combrinck: Tell us about your ideal kind of day trip. Ben Goldacre: I&#8217;m not really interested in guide book stuff, I&#8217;m interested in stuff [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I made a documentary about cohort studies in epidemiology, on BBC Radio 4</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2011/08/i-made-a-documentary-about-cohort-studies-in-epidemiology-on-bbc-radio-4/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2011/08/i-made-a-documentary-about-cohort-studies-in-epidemiology-on-bbc-radio-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 18:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I made a documentary about prospective cohort studies in epidemiology, they&#8217;re the tool we use to find out if one thing is associated with another, where trials are impossible. It&#8217;s really good. Instead of reading about it, listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b012wg2q/Science_From_Cradle_to_Grave/ Or listen live when it&#8217;s repeated tonight on Radio 4 at 9pm. Hurrah! &#160; Previously [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m talking at Glastonbury, Saturday 1:30pm Free University in The Park! (Also SGP, Latitude&#8230;)</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2011/06/im-talking-at-glastonbury-saturday-130pm-free-university-in-the-park/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2011/06/im-talking-at-glastonbury-saturday-130pm-free-university-in-the-park/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[bad science]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi all, just to say, I&#8217;m doing a talk in the Free University of Glastonbury, 1:30pm (or thereabouts) on Saturday. Free University is the literarature tent in The Park field, based inside HMS Sweet Charity, which sounds like it&#8217;s probably a big silly boat. www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/news/the-free-university-of-glastonbury-returns I&#8217;m also talking at Secret Garden Party (speakers tent, no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nerds at the parliamentary committee on the Draft Defamation Bill</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2011/06/nerds-at-the-parliamentary-committee-on-the-draft-defamation-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2011/06/nerds-at-the-parliamentary-committee-on-the-draft-defamation-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[libel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s me, Simon Singh, Phil Campbell from Nature, and Fiona Godlee from the BMJ giving evidence on libel reform in parliament yesterday. It&#8217;s all interesting, if you like that kind of thing, our session starts at 17:30 and I do a bit more shouting in the second half of it. I&#8217;m afraid that for some [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>32</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hurrah! Book out in US and Canada, talks in NY, Maine, Montreal, come&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2010/10/my-book-is-coming-out-in-the-us-and-canada/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2010/10/my-book-is-coming-out-in-the-us-and-canada/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[bad science]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My first book &#8220;Bad Science&#8221; is out today in the US and Canada, and there are some talks coming up in Canada and the US next week. Clicking on the covers below will take you to the Amazon page. . The talks should be fun, I&#8217;m passing through: Montreal Trottier Symposium in McGill  on October [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Placebo! Nocebo!</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2010/04/placebo-nocebo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2010/04/placebo-nocebo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 12:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi, two quick videos&#8230; one on the mighty placebo effect, via NHS Choices, one on the nocebo effect from Nerdstock. Sorry no column today, something pretty urgent came up on Friday, back next week, there&#8217;s this on libel from yesterday&#8217;s paper, and I&#8217;ll see if I can hustle what the column would have been into [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>29</slash:comments>
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		<title>Moments of genius</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2010/02/moments-of-genius/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2010/02/moments-of-genius/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[bad science]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[systematic reviews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry no column this week, I&#8217;ve got some fun stuff in the pipe, as they say, and a lot on. In case you miss me, here&#8217;s my shouty contribution to Radio 4&#8242;s &#8220;Moments Of Genius&#8221;, a eulogy to the startlingly new idea of systematic reviews. Other bits and bobs&#8230; &#8230;I&#8217;m on Quote Unquote this week [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>25</slash:comments>
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		<title>LlewTube</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2010/01/llewtube/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2010/01/llewtube/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:25:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brief note to say I&#8217;m a guest on LlewTube this week with Robert Llewellyn (or Kryten off of Red Dwarf if you prefer). The show&#8217;s great generally, and a galaxy of nerds, recent guests include Patrick Stewart, Graham Linehan, Martha Lane Fox, Adrian Edmondson, Brian Cox, and the rest. It&#8217;s also a genius format for [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>The greatest show on earth</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2009/12/the-greatest-show-on-earth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2009/12/the-greatest-show-on-earth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[bad science]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ooh, starting tomorrow is this year’s run of our amazing super-nerd-comedy-musical spectacular Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People. It’s a galaxy of stars, Richard Dawkins, Johnny Ball, Barry Cryer, Chris Addison off the Thick of It, Brian Cox, Richard Herring, Simon Singh, me, and many many more random people. This is variety at its [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>One of my t-shirts is in the&#8230; in the Daily Mail</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2009/07/one-of-my-t-shirts-is-in-the-in-the-daily-mail/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2009/07/one-of-my-t-shirts-is-in-the-in-the-daily-mail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[bad science]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sporting &#8220;I think you&#8217;ll find it&#8217;s a bit more complicated than that&#8221; from the BadScience classic range (mm must make more t-shirts). I can also inform you, looking at our deservedly rubbish sales figures, that this well-dressed young lady is one of 10 people in the universe to own such a t-shirt. Buy one now, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>53</slash:comments>
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		<title>I&#8217;m doing a talk at Glastonbury, Saturday 5pm Green Fields Speakers Tent</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2009/06/im-doing-a-talk-at-glastonbury-saturday-5pm-green-fields-speakers-tent/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2009/06/im-doing-a-talk-at-glastonbury-saturday-5pm-green-fields-speakers-tent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[bad science]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walk up the hill towards the Stone Circle, turn right at the homeopathy tent (if it&#8217;s in the same place this year), down Healing Broadway, nice big green tent on the right organised (among others) by my mate Shane Collins from t&#8217; Green Party. I&#8217;ll be talking at 5pm on Saturday, just after Tony Benn, [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2009/02/the-evidence-aric-sigman-ignored/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:43:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[aric sigman]]></category>
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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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		<slash:comments>150</slash:comments>
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		<title>Trading ideas in a toilet</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2009/02/trading-ideas-in-a-toilet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2009/02/trading-ideas-in-a-toilet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I met the lovely Conrad Quilty-Harper (true) in a toilet recently. He made a video of our encounter and posted it on the internet. I&#8217;ve embedded this below for your amusement and edification: I hope you find it stimulating. Ben Goldacre of Bad Science talks about Sensationalised Science Reporting from Conrad on Vimeo. It was [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>46</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Kymatika K-test and&#8230; oh, look at that: LBC. Updated.</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2009/02/the-kymatika-k-test-and-lbc/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2009/02/the-kymatika-k-test-and-lbc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Global Radio]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just briefly (because my hair looks terrible in it, and they made nerdy stickboy here look chubby) I was on Watchdog last night, talking about some ridiculous magical diagnosis machine. The video is here: www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/watchdog/2009/02/food_intolerance_test.html And there are three things to note here. One is that Julia Bradbury is weirdly hot, in a sanctimonious kind [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>86</slash:comments>
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		<title>Start The Week</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2009/01/start-the-week/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2009/01/start-the-week/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:25:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick note to say I was on Start The Week a moment ago. It&#8217;s on Listen Again and downloadable as an mp3 podcast here: www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/starttheweek.shtml Incidentally, on a nerd-efficiency tip, although I despise my HTC Tytn II mobile phone computer PDA thing more than any other piece of technology in the world (it [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>38</slash:comments>
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		<title>The barefaced cheek of these characters will never cease to amaze and delight me.</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2009/01/the-barefaced-cheek-of-these-characters-will-never-cease-to-amaze-and-delight-me/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2009/01/the-barefaced-cheek-of-these-characters-will-never-cease-to-amaze-and-delight-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[detox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nutritionists]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greeetings to listeners of the Today programme on BBC Radio 4. About 20 minutes ago I was on the show talking about detox nonsense. Nas Amir Ahmadi of detoxinabox.com denied the rather foolish contents of her own website, and confidently claimed that I must be thinking of the wrong company. I read a quote. She [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>150</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rather brilliantly I have been plagiarised by the Times&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/12/rather-brilliantly-i-have-been-plagiarised-by-the-times/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2008/12/rather-brilliantly-i-have-been-plagiarised-by-the-times/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who have a new column called&#8230; &#8230;ummm&#8230;. no wait&#8230; we could call it&#8230;. &#8220;Bad Statistics&#8220;. Favourite quote: &#8220;Send your bad statistics to badstats@thetimes.co.uk &#8220; Good for the cause though. And the bloke who writes it used to comment here.  I hope it, er, gets better.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Incapacitated&#8221; on Radio 4</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/11/incapacitated-on-radio-4/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2008/11/incapacitated-on-radio-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;ve got a documentary on Radio 4 at 8pm this evening on incapacity benefit, and it&#8217;s a bit of a veer from the norm, because it&#8217;s a subject where I&#8217;m not entirely sure what I think. Here&#8217;s why I care. I once sat drinking with a group of medics, arguing over what would be [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>48</slash:comments>
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		<title>A few talks coming up, Oxford, Cambridge, London</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/10/a-few-talks-coming-up-oxford-cambridge-london/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve got a couple of talks coming up in the next while, and I&#8217;m posting them here for people who don&#8217;t read the miniblog on the right hand side of the page (it&#8217;s the best thing about this site, much better than my rambling blog posts) and aren&#8217;t members of the miraculous facebook group which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nice review of my book in the British Medical Journal by Richard Smith</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/10/nice-review-of-the-book-in-the-british-medical-journal-by-richard-smith/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:36:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reproduced cheekily below. He&#8217;s Arthur Smith&#8216;s brother, don&#8217;t you know. Published 1 October 2008, doi:10.1136/bmj.a1856 www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/337/oct01_3/a1856 Cite this as: BMJ 2008;337:a1856 Views &#38; Reviews Review of the Week Becoming Ben Richard Smith, director, Ovations Chronic Disease Initiative richardswsmith@yahoo.co.uk Ben Goldacre’s book assembles an impressive array of villains who deal in bad science, finds Richard Smith [...]]]></description>
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