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		<title>Now with audio &#8211; The Rise of the Lifestyle Nutritionists Part II &#8211; BBC Radio 4</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/03/8pm-bbc-radio-4-the-rise-of-the-lifestyle-nutritionists-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Busy bee today, sorry for the late link, the second part of the BBC Radio 4 two-part series &#8220;The Rise of the Lifestyle Nutritionists&#8221;  is going out at 8pm this evening, presented by yours truly (part one here) and produced by the excellently sharp Rami Tzabar from the BBC Radio Science Unit. I think [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>50</slash:comments>
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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>
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		<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>Electrosensitives: the new cash cow of the woo industry</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/06/electrosensitives-the-new-cash-cow-of-the-woo-industry/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2007/06/electrosensitives-the-new-cash-cow-of-the-woo-industry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jun 2007 00:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre
Saturday June 2, 2007
The Guardian
The Independent has put its green columnist Julia Stephenson on to Panorama&#8217;s Wi-Fi scare story: a charming green party candidate and beef heiress living in Chelsea on a trust fund, who believes her symptoms of tiredness and headache are caused by electromagnetic radiation from phones and Wi-Fi.

The most important background [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>152</slash:comments>
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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 Â£69.99.

The QLink [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>75</slash:comments>
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		<title>Patrick Holford &#8211; &#8220;Food Is Better Than Medicine&#8221; South Africa Tour Blighted By HIV Claim</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/02/patrick-holford-food-is-better-than-medicine-south-africa-tour/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2007/02/patrick-holford-food-is-better-than-medicine-south-africa-tour/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:09:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a bit of a data dump of some of the critical news coverage that Patrick Holford&#8217;s &#8220;Food Is Better Than Medicine&#8221; tour of South Africa has picked up. They&#8217;re not very impressed in Africa by his claim that vitamin C is better than AZT, and Holford seems a bit conflicted over it himself. Here&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>67</slash:comments>
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		<title>Enough. Patrick. Holford.</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/02/money-is-not-the-only-barrier-to-aids-patients-getting-hold-of-drugs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2007/02/money-is-not-the-only-barrier-to-aids-patients-getting-hold-of-drugs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:32:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre
Saturday February 17, 2007
The Guardian
Look, I realise this is beginning to feel like one of those big containers where the Americans play Britney at you over and over again until you confess to crimes you haven&#8217;t committed. I&#8217;m totally ready to move on from nutritionists. But Patrick Holford yesterday found his way on to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>46</slash:comments>
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		<title>Patrick Holford, solicits wikipedia changes. again. inevitable consequences</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/02/patrick-holford-wikipedia-page-vandalised-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2007/02/patrick-holford-wikipedia-page-vandalised-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2007 20:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Patrick Holford has now solicited his subscribers to write positively about him on his wikipedia page, in a mailout earlier today:
&#8220;Weirdness on Wikipedia &#8211; Ideally, debates on issues of scientific and medical contention should stick to the facts, but unfortunately those in the front line of paradigm shifts are usually subject to personal attacks, of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>28</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8220;My right to be called a nutritionist&#8221; &#8211; Patrick Holford</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/02/my-right-to-be-called-a-nutrionist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2007/02/my-right-to-be-called-a-nutrionist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:16:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the letters page today:
My right to be called a nutrionist
Friday February 16, 2007
The Guardian
In Ben Goldacre&#8217;s column on January 6 he once again accuses me of &#8220;bad science&#8221; in reference to a statement in one of my books that &#8220;AZT is potentially harmful and proving less effective than vitamin C&#8221;. As he well knows, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>78</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Truth About Nutritionists&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/01/the-truth-about-nutritionists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;is the title of a stage show I&#8217;ve written with a friend. Amazingly it looks like it might also be commissioned elsewhere (for Radio 4, in different form) and really I&#8217;m just showing off. But that was the least interesting thing in my email this week. Because people have started to lobby me. 
Firstly, some [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>57</slash:comments>
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		<title>Doctoring the records &#8211; Patrick Holford and Fuel PR</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/01/doctoring-the-records/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2007/01/doctoring-the-records/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jan 2007 00:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read more on &#8220;Professor Patrick Holford&#8221; here, there, here, there, here and here.
Ben Goldacre
Saturday January 6, 2007
The Guardian
It&#8217;s just not cool to anonymously edit your own Wikipedia page. It&#8217;s an online encyclopaedia, free to access, a tribute to the powers of the hive mind, and anyone can edit any page. This makes it a valuable [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>85</slash:comments>
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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 and finance are [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>135</slash:comments>
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		<title>Selling Sickness</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/04/selling-sickness/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2006/04/selling-sickness/#comments</comments>
		<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 to sell more [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>73</slash:comments>
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		<title>Working papers &#8211; Patrick Holford</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2005/01/working-papers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre
Thursday January 20, 2005
The Guardian
Here&#8217;s an interesting question, and I&#8217;d be interested to hear your thoughts. Can a published research paper ever be Bad Science? I think not. This week, we publish a letter from Raxit Jariwalla, the author of a study on vitamin C and HIV, who feels done down for being mentioned [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Vitamin deficiency &#8211; Patrick Holford</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2005/01/vitamin-deficiency/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2005/01/vitamin-deficiency/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2005 15:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre
Thursday January 6, 2005
The Guardian
You&#8217;ll be pleased to hear that my new year&#8217;s resolution is to stop going on about nutritionists and find some new targets to bait. However, due to the curved nature of spacetime in newspapers I&#8217;m writing this in 2004, so by my reckoning I get one more pop, not at [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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