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http://www.badscience.net/2011/01/how-to-read-a-paper/ http://www.badscience.net/2011/01/how-to-read-a-paper/#comments Sat, 29 Jan 2011 00:57:32 +0000 Ben Goldacre http://www.badscience.net/?p=1950 http://www.badscience.net/2011/01/how-to-read-a-paper/feed/ 49 http://www.badscience.net/2011/01/putting-a-number-in-its-context/ http://www.badscience.net/2011/01/putting-a-number-in-its-context/#comments Sat, 08 Jan 2011 00:01:26 +0000 Ben Goldacre http://www.badscience.net/?p=1924 http://www.badscience.net/2011/01/putting-a-number-in-its-context/feed/ 28 http://www.badscience.net/2010/12/the-year-in-nonsense-2/ http://www.badscience.net/2010/12/the-year-in-nonsense-2/#comments Fri, 17 Dec 2010 19:42:46 +0000 Ben Goldacre http://www.badscience.net/?p=1901 http://www.badscience.net/2010/12/the-year-in-nonsense-2/feed/ 7 http://www.badscience.net/2010/11/science-is-about-embracing-your-knockers/ http://www.badscience.net/2010/11/science-is-about-embracing-your-knockers/#comments Fri, 12 Nov 2010 23:45:48 +0000 Ben Goldacre http://www.badscience.net/?p=1848 http://www.badscience.net/2010/11/science-is-about-embracing-your-knockers/feed/ 42 http://www.badscience.net/2010/10/neuro-realism/ http://www.badscience.net/2010/10/neuro-realism/#comments Fri, 29 Oct 2010 23:01:40 +0000 Ben Goldacre http://www.badscience.net/?p=1830 http://www.badscience.net/2010/10/neuro-realism/feed/ 36 http://www.badscience.net/2010/10/the-caveat-in-paragraph-number-19/ http://www.badscience.net/2010/10/the-caveat-in-paragraph-number-19/#comments Fri, 15 Oct 2010 23:03:04 +0000 Ben Goldacre http://www.badscience.net/?p=1826 http://www.badscience.net/2010/10/the-caveat-in-paragraph-number-19/feed/ 19 http://www.badscience.net/2010/08/in-praise-of-anecdotes/ http://www.badscience.net/2010/08/in-praise-of-anecdotes/#comments Fri, 27 Aug 2010 23:01:58 +0000 Ben Goldacre http://www.badscience.net/?p=1764 http://www.badscience.net/2010/08/in-praise-of-anecdotes/feed/ 53 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http://www.badscience.net/2010/04/evidence-based-voting/feed/ 53 http://www.badscience.net/2010/03/facebook-causes-syphilis-says-prof-peter-kelly-director-of-public-health-nhs-tees/ http://www.badscience.net/2010/03/facebook-causes-syphilis-says-prof-peter-kelly-director-of-public-health-nhs-tees/#comments Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:40:00 +0000 Ben Goldacre http://www.badscience.net/2010/03/facebook-causes-syphilis-says-prof-peter-kelly-director-of-public-health-nhs-tees/ http://www.badscience.net/2010/03/facebook-causes-syphilis-says-prof-peter-kelly-director-of-public-health-nhs-tees/feed/ 14 http://www.badscience.net/2010/03/doing-nothing/ http://www.badscience.net/2010/03/doing-nothing/#comments Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:55:32 +0000 Ben Goldacre http://www.badscience.net/2010/03/doing-nothing/ http://www.badscience.net/2010/03/doing-nothing/feed/ 52 http://www.badscience.net/2010/03/rentokil/ http://www.badscience.net/2010/03/rentokil/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:22:16 +0000 Ben Goldacre http://www.badscience.net/?p=1553 http://www.badscience.net/2010/03/rentokil/feed/ 38 http://www.badscience.net/2010/02/parliamentary-sci-tech-committee-on-homeopathy/ http://www.badscience.net/2010/02/parliamentary-sci-tech-committee-on-homeopathy/#comments Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:02:54 +0000 Ben Goldacre http://www.badscience.net/2010/02/parliamentary-sci-tech-committee-on-homeopathy/ http://www.badscience.net/2010/02/parliamentary-sci-tech-committee-on-homeopathy/feed/ 80 http://www.badscience.net/2010/01/voices-of-the-ancients/ http://www.badscience.net/2010/01/voices-of-the-ancients/#comments Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:42:00 +0000 Ben Goldacre http://www.badscience.net/2010/01/voices-of-the-ancients/ http://www.badscience.net/2010/01/voices-of-the-ancients/feed/ 30