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		<title>Anarchy for the UK. Ish.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 2 April 2011 Here are two fun ways that numbers can be distorted for political purposes. Stop me if I’m boring you, but each of them feels oddly poetic, in its ability to smear or stifle. The first is simple: you can conflate two different things into one number, either [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drink coffee, see dead people.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian, Saturday January 17 2009 Ben Goldacre &#8220;Danger from just 7 cups of coffee a day&#8221; said the Express on Wednesday. &#8220;Too much coffee can make you hallucinate and sense dead people say sleep experts. The equivalent of just seven cups of instant coffee a day is enough to trigger the weird responses.&#8221; The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You are 80% less likely to die from a meteor landing on your head if you wear a bicycle helmet all day.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re all suckers for a big number, and you&#8217;ll be delighted to hear that the Journal of Consumer Research has huge teams of scientists all eagerly writing up their sinister research on how to exploit us. One excellent study this month looked at how people choose a digital camera. This will become relevant in three [...]]]></description>
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