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		<title>The power of anecdotes</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2010/08/in-praise-of-anecdotes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 23:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 28 August 2010 For simpletons and amateurs, there are good research methods, and bad research methods. In reality, different tools are valuable in different situations, and sometimes, even very tiny numbers of people can give you a meaningful piece of information: even an anecdote can be informative. For example, if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Exams are getting easier&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2010/08/exams-are-getting-easier/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 23:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 21 August 2010 Pass rates are at 98%. A quarter of grades are higher than an A. This week every newspaper in the country was filled with people asserting that exams are definitely getting easier, and then other people asserting that exams are definitely not getting easier. The question for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Give us the trial data</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2010/08/give-us-the-trial-data/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 23:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 14 August 2010 This week the drug company AstraZeneca paid out £125m to settle a class action. Over 17,500 patients claim the company withheld information showing that schizophrenia drug quetiapine (tradename Seroquel) might cause diabetes. Why do companies pay out money before cases get to court? One interesting feature of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>45</slash:comments>
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		<title>More than 60 children saved from abuse &#8211; small update</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2010/08/more-than-60-children-saved-from-abuse/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2010/08/more-than-60-children-saved-from-abuse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 01:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 7 August 2010 According to the Home Office this week, Sarah&#8217;s law &#8211; where any parent can find out if any adult in contact with their child has a record of violent or sexual crimes &#8211; has &#8220;already protected more than 60 children from abuse during its pilot&#8220;. This fact [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>32</slash:comments>
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		<title>Boris Johnson and his innovative trial methodology</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2010/07/boris-johnson-and-his-innovative-trial-methodology/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2010/07/boris-johnson-and-his-innovative-trial-methodology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 31 July 2010 It’s the near misses that really make you want to shoot your own face off. This week the Centre for Policy Studies has published a pamphlet on education which has been covered by the Mirror, the Mail, the BBC, the Telegraph, the Express, the Guardian, and more. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>93</slash:comments>
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		<title>Podcast on government response to SciTech NHS homeopathy report</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2010/07/podcast-on-government-response-to-scitech-nhs-homeopathy-report/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2010/07/podcast-on-government-response-to-scitech-nhs-homeopathy-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I zipped off this quick podcast from my phone on Monday and put it on my secondary blog, which I run for scrappy stuff. People seemed to like it a bit so I&#8217;m reposting here. There&#8217;s more audio stuff coming, a bit of video too, and I&#8217;ll work out good feeds and iTunes stuff over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I love research about research</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2010/07/i-love-research-about-research/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 24 July 2010 There is a pleasing symmetry in the ropey science you get from different players. When GlaxoSmithKline are confronted with an unflattering meta-analysis summarising the results of all 56 trials on one of their treatments, as we saw last week, their defense is to point at 7 positive [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>32</slash:comments>
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		<title>And then I was incompetently libelled by a litigious millionaire</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2010/07/and-then-i-was-incompetently-libelled-by-a-litigious-millionaire/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2010/07/and-then-i-was-incompetently-libelled-by-a-litigious-millionaire/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Monday 19 July 2010 What do you do, as a campaigner for libel reform, when a litigious millionaire calls you a liar? This ethical quandary was presented to me last week when twitter account of Gillian McKeith &#8211; or to give her full medical title, “Gillian McKeith” &#8211; called my book [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>77</slash:comments>
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		<title>Pharmaco-epidemiology would be fascinating enough even if society didn&#8217;t manage it really really badly</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2010/07/pharmaco-epidemiology-would-be-fascinating-enough-even-if-society-didnt-manage-it-really-really-badly/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2010/07/pharmaco-epidemiology-would-be-fascinating-enough-even-if-society-didnt-manage-it-really-really-badly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 23:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 17 July 2010 This week the FDA voted not to ban GlaxoSmithKline’s diabetes drug rosiglitazone (brand name Avandia). Their vote has been reported as a victory for the company. I don’t think so: this saga tells an ugly story about our collective medical incompetence. Rosiglitazone was first marketed in 1999. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>The bullshit box</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2010/07/the-bullshit-box/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2010/07/the-bullshit-box/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 00:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 10 July 2010 This week the food and nutrition pills industries are complaining. They like to make health claims about their products, which often turn out to be unsupported by the evidence. Regulating that mess would be tedious and long-winded, the kind of project enjoyed by the EU, and so [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>35</slash:comments>
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		<title>Yeah well you can prove anything with science</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2010/07/yeah-well-you-can-prove-anything-with-science/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2010/07/yeah-well-you-can-prove-anything-with-science/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 3 July 2010 What do people do when confronted with scientific evidence that challenges their pre-existing view? Often they will try to ignore it, intimidate it, buy it off, sue it for libel, or reason it away. The classic paper on the last of those strategies is from Lord in [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>40</slash:comments>
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		<title>Nullius in verba. In verba? Nullius!</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2010/06/nullius-in-verba-in-verba-nullius/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2010/06/nullius-in-verba-in-verba-nullius/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi there, just back from Glastonbury, here&#8217;s my column from last Saturday. The Guardian didn&#8217;t take it, they said it was too soon to be critical of a Guardian journalist after the column on fish oil, and the issue was too technical. I&#8217;m not prone to melodrama, so I don&#8217;t see this as a big [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>36</slash:comments>
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		<title>Burn the scientists!</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2010/06/burn-the-scientists/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2010/06/burn-the-scientists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 22:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 19 June 2010 On the 6th of April 2009, an earthquake registering 5.8 on the richter scale hit the town of L’Aquila in Abruzzo, Italy. This was a tragedy, and hundreds of people died. It would be great if we could have firm predictions about every risk whose rare but tragic [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>51</slash:comments>
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		<title>Superstition</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2010/06/1693/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2010/06/1693/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 23:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre The Guardian Saturday 12 June 2010 As someone who strives – sanctimoniously &#8211; to be right, I&#8217;m a masochistic fan of research showing that people who are wrong have better lives than I do. This is why I particularly enjoyed a study from the current edition of Psychological Science showing that being superstitious improves [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jeremy Laurance is an angry man</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2010/06/jeremy-laurance-is-an-angry-man/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2010/06/jeremy-laurance-is-an-angry-man/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You might be amused by this piece from the Independent&#8217;s health reporter Jeremy Laurance today. It&#8217;s about what a bad man I am for pointing out when science and health journalists get things wrong. Alongside the lengthy ad hominem &#8211; a matter of taste for you &#8211; there are a number of mistakes and, more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fish oil in the Observer: the return of a $2bn friend</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2010/06/the-return-of-a-2bn-fishy-friend/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2010/06/the-return-of-a-2bn-fishy-friend/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 23:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 5 June 2010 &#8220;Fish oil helps schoolchildren to concentrate” was the headline in the Observer. Regular readers will remember the omega-3 fish oil pill issue, as the entire British news media has been claiming for several years now that there are trials showing it improves school performance and behaviour in [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>33</slash:comments>
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		<title>The noble and ancient tradition of moron-baiting</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2010/05/the-noble-and-ancient-tradition-of-moron-baiting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2010/05/the-noble-and-ancient-tradition-of-moron-baiting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 22:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 29 May 2010 This week a man called Martin Gardner died, aged 95. His popular maths column in Scientific American (and 50 books on the subject) spanned the decades, but in 1952 he published a book about pseudoscience, quacks, and credulous journalists. How much do you think has changed over [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
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		<title>A staggeringly weak interview of Andrew Wakefield on the Today programme</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2010/05/a-staggeringly-weak-interview-of-andrew-wakefield-on-the-today-programme/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2010/05/a-staggeringly-weak-interview-of-andrew-wakefield-on-the-today-programme/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 10:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Uninformed reporter fails to present even the most basic GMC allegations of misrepresenting individual patients findings. You can listen to it here: news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8700000/8700062.stm When your interviewee &#8211; who has been found guilty by the GMC of misrepresenting his own scientific findings, and conducting dangerous experiments on children without ethics committee clearance, in a clearly laid [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>47</slash:comments>
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		<title>Politicians can divine which policy works best by using their special magic politician beam</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2010/05/politicians-can-divine-which-policy-works-best-by-using-their-special-magic-politician-beam/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2010/05/politicians-can-divine-which-policy-works-best-by-using-their-special-magic-politician-beam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 23:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 22 May 2010 So all good citizens this week are poring over the “Programme For Government”, and it’s true to say that there is much to be pleased with. Labour wasn’t all about unbridled credit and fun public sector spending sprees: they kept all your emails, kept records of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peep peep.</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2010/05/peep-peep/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2010/05/peep-peep/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 01:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 15 May 2010 It’s worth paying attention to medicine, because when it goes wrong, people suffer and die. But how do we know when things are going wrong? This week the BMA produced a report on whistleblowers. Of the 384 doctors they surveyed (with a dismal response rate of 12%, [...]]]></description>
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