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	<title>Bad Science &#187; scare stories</title>
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		<title>Chilling warning to parents from top neuroscientist</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2009/05/professor-baroness-susan-greenfield-cbe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 23:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edit midday Saturday: I&#8217;ve just read the Guardian version and it&#8217;s been cut a bit, whole chunks missing, and bits rewritten. This is the best reason to have a blog. Anyway, if Baroness Greenfield responds &#8211; and naturally I hope she will, as there is a great deal more to say on this topic &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PARMAGEDDON</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2009/04/parmageddon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is possibly the most boring thing I’ve ever written in the Guardian, but I have been genuinely weirded out by the number of people inviting me to be a naysayer on the aporkalypse. I’m not, it’s a genuine risk. I ought to add that most of the people who rang, when I explained my [...]]]></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>LBC, MMR, Jeni Barnett, an Early Day Motion, the Times, and, er, a bit of Stephen Fry&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2009/02/lbc-mmr-jeni-barnett-an-early-day-motion-the-times-and-er-a-bit-of-stephen-fry/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2009/02/lbc-mmr-jeni-barnett-an-early-day-motion-the-times-and-er-a-bit-of-stephen-fry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought since a few days have passed that I should let you know what&#8217;s happening with the slightly ridiculous LBC situation. If you skip to the bottom you will find a discussion on some mischievous activism which I think has great potential. Since LBC unwisely threw their legal weight around to prevent you from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mischief PR and more top secret data.</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/07/mischief-pr-and-more-top-secret-data/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:25:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre The Guardian Saturday July 5 2008 Anyone would think the cold war was still on, with all this top secret scientific data that journalists constantly seem to be writing about. In last week&#8217;s column, as you will remember, we saw the Sunday Express front page claiming that a scientist and government adviser called [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreign substances in your precious bodily fluids</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/02/foreign-substances-in-your-precious-bodily-fluids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 02:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ll find fluoride in tea, beer and fish, which might sound like a balanced diet to you. This week Alan Johnson announced a major new push for putting it in the drinking water, with some very grand promises, and in the face of serious opposition. General Ripper first developed his theories about environmental poisoning and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A rather long build up to one punchline</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/12/a-rather-long-build-up-to-one-punchline/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2007/12/a-rather-long-build-up-to-one-punchline/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2007 13:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday December 8 2007 The Daily Mail, as you know, is engaged in a philosophical project of mythic proportions: for many years now it has diligently been sifting through all the inanimate objects in the world, soberly dividing them into the ones which either cause &#8211; or cure &#8211; cancer. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Joy of Ingelfingering</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/09/the-joy-of-ingelfingering/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 00:53:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a response (as they say in Youtube) to a previous piece in the Times Higher by Bob Ward, which is pasted at the bottom. Hey, I&#8217;m in the THES. I am officially &#8220;old&#8221;. Clinical cost of making headlines Ben Goldacre 21 September 2007 Times Higher Education Supplement Paul Broca was a French craniologist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Try Me, Sh*thead&#8221; &#8211; the strange case of Carol Stott, Wakefield, and the Observer &#8211; including bizarre update</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/07/try-me-shithead-the-strange-case-of-stott-wakefield-and-the-observer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2007/07/try-me-shithead-the-strange-case-of-stott-wakefield-and-the-observer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2007 13:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update 10:30pm Sunday 8/7/07: Just got this reply from Dr Scott, in response to my email below: she seems to say the Observer have concocted something, but it&#8217;s certainly vague. Have asked her for clarification, but no response (still none as of 17:15 9/7/07 despite various emails and phone call). [i should clarify that sincec [...]]]></description>
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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. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wi-Fi Wants To Kill Your Children&#8230; But Alasdair Philips of Powerwatch sells the cure!</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/05/so-simple-a-child-could-spot-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2007/05/so-simple-a-child-could-spot-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2007 23:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello visitors from boingboing/slashdot. I&#8217;m a doctor and I write in the Guardian and the BMJ about quackery, health scares, and pseudoscience in the media. Ben Goldacre Saturday May 26, 2007 The Guardian Won&#8217;t somebody, please, think of the children? Three weeks ago I received my favourite email of all time, from a science teacher. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Kenyon from BBC Panorama Responds on Wi-Fi Scare</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/05/paul-kenyon-from-panorama-responds-on-wi-fi-scare/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2007/05/paul-kenyon-from-panorama-responds-on-wi-fi-scare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2007 19:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just been sent this by the BBC publicity office, it is a response from Paul Kenyon, the presenter of the show, and very nice chap too. He is talking about the posts here and here. And remember &#8211; by the miracle of the interweb &#8211; this is the show he is talking about. Hi [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laugh? I nearly died.</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/03/laugh-i-nearly-died/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:18:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday March 10, 2007 The Guardian Obviously nobody is more worried than I about the hippie crack epidemic: nitrous oxide â€“ better known as laughing gas &#8211; has hit the news, after the death of a man with a plastic bag over his head, and a cannister of the drug connected to himself. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Science told: hands off gay sheep &#8211; updated</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/01/science-told-hands-off-gay-sheep/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2007/01/science-told-hands-off-gay-sheep/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday January 13, 2007 The Guardian &#8220;Science told: hands off gay sheep.&#8221; It&#8217;s hard to think of a headline more joyous than this classic from the Sunday Times. Apparently a scientist called Professor Charles Roselli is conducting cruel and gruesome experiments on sheep in the name of eradicating homosexuality. Unfortunately this &#8220;news&#8221; story, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Wide Weirdness Shootout &#8211; updated</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/01/world-wide-weirdness-shootout/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jan 2007 01:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday January 27, 2007 The Guardian I&#8217;m not a complicated man &#8211; as my girlfriend could happily tell you &#8211; but I do get a bit worried about these stories I&#8217;ve been emailed, where African people say something stupid about the science of Aids and we all laugh at them. To be fair, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not The Nine O&#8217;Clock News</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/10/not-the-nine-oclock-news-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2006/10/not-the-nine-oclock-news-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Oct 2006 02:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article was massively cut in the paper at the last minute, below is the last version I touched&#8230; Ben Goldacre Saturday October 14, 2006 The Guardian Think back into the mists of MMR: in 2002, Professor John O&#8217;Leary&#8217;s group in Dublin reported finding measles virus in the intestine of children with autism and bowel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Hampstead to Cape Town</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/08/from-hampstead-to-cape-town/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2006 23:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday August 26th, 2006 The Guardian What happens if you transplant western ideas like nutritionism, and anti-vaccination panics, into a developing world context? Unfortunately thatâ€™s not a thought experiment. Between 600 and 800 people die every day in South Africa from HIV/AIDS, and their government was roundly criticised at last weeks International AIDS [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese War Tubas</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/08/japanese-war-tubas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Aug 2006 17:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the reasons why people are so scared of science these days is that technology has become more inexplicable, and somehow more &#8220;black box&#8221;. Fifty years ago, with a bit of practise and a good grounding in school science, you could fix your car and understand how your radio works. You wouldn&#8217;t stand a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Academics are as guilty as the media when it comes to publication bias</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/06/academics-are-as-guilty-as-the-media-when-it-comes-to-publication-bias/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jun 2006 07:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday June 10, 2006 The Guardian When I am finally assassinated by an axe-wielding electrosensitive homeopathic anti-vaccine campaigner &#8211; and that day surely cannot be far off now &#8211; I should like to be remembered, primarily, for my childishness and immaturity. Occasionally, however, I like to write about serious issues. And I don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MMR Is Back</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/06/mmr-is-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 17:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre 3rd June 2006 The Guardian [Mmmm uh-oh I've just found out the Guardian newsdesk have cut this by 200 words while I was having an afternoon snooze. I can't bear to look. Anyway, here's what I wrote...] MMR is back. &#8220;US scientists back autism link to MMR&#8221; squealed the Telegraph. &#8220;Scientists fear MMR [...]]]></description>
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