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		<title>&#8220;Bad Science&#8221; is £2.49 on Kindle for the next week</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2011/11/bad-science-is-2-49-on-kindle-for-the-next-week/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2011/11/bad-science-is-2-49-on-kindle-for-the-next-week/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Briefly: I thought this was a pricing error, but it turns out it&#8217;s deliberate, so&#8230; My book is £2.49 on Kindle for the next week or so. When it&#8217;s this cheap you might as well use it to test the Kindle app on your phone (I&#8217;m a massive Kindle dork, it helps me get more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You might also enjoy my second blog&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2011/09/my-other-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As well as being here I&#8217;m also there: here&#8217;s a quick round-up of recent posts from my other blog where I post scatty, brief scribbles in between bouts of real work, they&#8217;re in the sidebar on the right too.: - - How accurate is turnitin? And a brief scribble on plagiarism - This man&#8217;s reasoning [...]]]></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>
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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>There&#8217;s something magical about watching patterns emerge from data</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2011/06/theres-something-magical-about-watching-patterns-emerge-from-data/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2011/06/theres-something-magical-about-watching-patterns-emerge-from-data/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre The Guardian Saturday 11 June 2011 We all know one atom of experience isn&#8217;t enough to spot a pattern: but when you put lots of experiences together and process that data, you get new knowledge. This might sound obvious, but following it through – watching patterns emerge from the noise – still gives me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I foresee that nobody will do anything about this problem</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2011/04/i-foresee-that-nobody-will-do-anything-about-this-problem/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2011/04/i-foresee-that-nobody-will-do-anything-about-this-problem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 10:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 23 April 2011 Last year a mainstream psychology researcher called Daryl Bem published a competent academic paper, in a well respected journal, showing evidence of precognition. Instead of designing new studies to see whether people could consciously tell you about the future, he ran some classic psychology experiments backwards. For [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;d expect this from UKIP, or the Daily Mail. Not from a government leaflet.</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2011/04/id-expect-this-from-ukip-or-the-daily-mail-not-from-a-government-leaflet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2011/04/id-expect-this-from-ukip-or-the-daily-mail-not-from-a-government-leaflet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 23:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, 15 April 2011 HM Government have issued a new leaflet to justify their NHS reforms: Working Together For A Stronger NHS. It was produced by Number 10, appears on the Department of Health website, and many of the figures it contains are misleading, out of date, or flatly incorrect. It begins, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When journalists do primary research</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2011/04/when-journalists-do-primary-research/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2011/04/when-journalists-do-primary-research/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 23:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 9 April 2011 This week some journalists found a pattern in some data, and ascribed a cause to it. “Recession linked to huge rise in antidepressants” said the Telegraph. “Economic woes fuel dramatic rise in use of antidepressants” said the Daily Mail. “Record numbers of people are being handed antidepressants” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why don&#8217;t journalists link to primary sources?</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2011/03/why-dont-journalists-link-to-primary-sources/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2011/03/why-dont-journalists-link-to-primary-sources/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 01:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 19 March 2011 Why don’t journalists link to primary sources? Whether it’s a press release, an academic journal article, a formal report, or perhaps (if everyone’s feeling brave) the full transcript of an interview, the primary source contains more information for interested readers, it shows your working, and it allows [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why cigarette packs matter</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2011/03/why-cigarette-packs-matter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2011/03/why-cigarette-packs-matter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 00:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 12 March 2011 This week our government committed itself to the removal, albeit slowly, of cigarette displays in shops. But plain packaging on cigarettes has been delayed for further consultation. The Unite union is unimpressed. They represent 6,000 people in tobacco production and distribution, and put out a statement: “Switching [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EudraCT, the clinical trials transparency tool held in secret</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2011/03/when-regulation-is-opaque-trust-is-all-you-have/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2011/03/when-regulation-is-opaque-trust-is-all-you-have/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 00:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 5 March 2011 The European Medicines Agency now regulate the pharmaceutical industry throughout the whole of Europe. In December 2010 Thomas Lonngren stepped down as their executive director. On the 28th of that month he sent a letter telling the EMA management board that he was going to start working [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You&#8217;re ooonly cheating yourself</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2011/02/youre-ooonly-cheating-yourself/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2011/02/youre-ooonly-cheating-yourself/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 00:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 26 February 2011 Science is about disproving hypotheses, and no matter what the armchair conspiracy theorists tell you, torpedoing cherished ideas is a very good way to make a name for yourself in academia. Here are two fun ones from the literature this month. Firstly: are sniffer dogs for real? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pretending that evidence is difficult and complicated</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2011/02/pretending-that-evidence-is-difficult-and-complicated/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2011/02/pretending-that-evidence-is-difficult-and-complicated/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 01:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 19 February 2011 For the past two weeks we’ve followed the government’s misuse of evidence on NHS reforms, remembering that they’re perfectly permitted to reform things with no evidence at all, like everyone else does, they just shouldn’t pretend to have evidence. On Thursday health minister Simon Burns appeared before [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>42</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why is evidence so hard for politicians?</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2011/02/why-is-evidence-so-hard-for-politicians/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2011/02/why-is-evidence-so-hard-for-politicians/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 00:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 12 February 2011 One thing you hope for, with politicians, is that they won’t make the same mistakes over and over again. Last week we saw that the government has overstated the problems in the NHS by using dodgy figures (to be precise, they used misleading static figures instead of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Andrew Lansley and his imaginary evidence</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2011/02/andrew-lansley-and-his-imaginary-evidence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2011/02/andrew-lansley-and-his-imaginary-evidence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2011 00:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 5 February 2011 I have never heard one politician use the word “evidence” so persistently, and so misleadingly, as Andrew Lansley defending his NHS reforms. Since he repeatedly claims that the evidence supports his plan, let’s skim through what we can find on whether GP consortiums work, the benefits of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to read a paper</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2011/01/how-to-read-a-paper/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2011/01/how-to-read-a-paper/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 00:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 29 January 2011 If science has any authority, it derives from transparency: you can check the claims against the working. Sometimes you hit a brick wall. Sometimes you might consider a shortcut. Let’s look at 3 types of checking. First up, in the Sun, a child has been born at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tell me now how do I feel</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2011/01/tell-me-now-how-do-i-feel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2011/01/tell-me-now-how-do-i-feel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2011 00:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 22 January 2011 I’m not going to tell the same story once a year, like some kind of journalistic dirty protest, even if it crops up in parliament, every newspaper, and all over Radio 4: there are more interesting things to say than “Blue Monday is bullshit”, but before we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;None of your damn business&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2011/01/none-of-your-damn-business/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2011/01/none-of-your-damn-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 23:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 15 January 2011 Sometimes something will go wrong with an academic paper, and it will need to be retracted: that’s entirely expected. What matters is how academic journals deal with problems when they arise. In 2004 the Annals of Thoracic Surgery published a study comparing two heart drugs. This week [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Putting a number in its context</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2011/01/putting-a-number-in-its-context/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2011/01/putting-a-number-in-its-context/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 00:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 8th January 2011 “600 pregnancies despite contraceptive implant” said the BBC.  “500 fall pregnant after having contraceptive implant” said the Express. “Contraceptive implant alert” said the Daily Mail: “Hundreds of women fall pregnant after birth control fails”. The story first broke on Channel 4, and it’s still not entirely clear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m doing this awesome massive nerd tour</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2010/12/im-doing-this-awesome-massive-nerd-tour/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2010/12/im-doing-this-awesome-massive-nerd-tour/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 12:37:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m doing this awesome massive nerd tour with Simon Singh, Brian Cox and Robin Ince. We will talk about science and it will be funny. Also, we will make a Spinal Tap tour video. Come! There will be shouting and enthusiasm and nerd facts just like in our Godless shows and festival stuff. The first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The year in nonsense</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2010/12/the-year-in-nonsense-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 19:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 18 December 2010 It&#8217;s been a marvellous year for bullshit. We saw quantitative evidence showing that drug adverts aimed at doctors are routinely factually inaccurate, while pharmaceutical company ghostwriters were the secret hands behind letters to the Times, and a whole series of academic papers. We saw more drug companies [...]]]></description>
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