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		<title>Jeremy Laurance gets angry about scrutiny for journalists&#8217; claims</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2010/06/jeremy-laurance-is-an-angry-man/</link>
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		<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>
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		<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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		<title>Evidence based revenge</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2009/07/evidence-based-revenge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 11th July 2009 This week I have attempted to engage in meaningful disputes with morons who have misled their readers using untrue facts. I will rise above it, because I am a nice guy. More importantly, I don’t want to end up being diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Embitterment Disorder, the new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giving it some chat on the Today Programme, Radio 4, about dumbing down and why scientists often don&#8217;t like media scientists</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2009/04/giving-it-some-chat-on-the-today-programme-radio-4-about-dumbing-down-and-why-scientists-often-dont-like-media-scientists/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2009/04/giving-it-some-chat-on-the-today-programme-radio-4-about-dumbing-down-and-why-scientists-often-dont-like-media-scientists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:39:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was just on the Today Programme on Radio 4 talking about dumbing down science in response to this piece in New Scientist by Kathy Sykes (who I like, and regard with some hope as a bit of a mate by the way). badscience.net/files/BenGoldacreTodayProgRadio427Apr09.mp3 I won&#8217;t talk about it too much here since I&#8217;m hopefully [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dave Ford from Durham Council performs incompetent experiments on children.</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/09/dave-ford-from-durham-council-plays-at-being-a-scientist-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You’ll remember the Durham fish oil “trial” story, possibly the greatest example of scientific incompetence ever documented from a local authority. Initially they said &#8211; to blanket media coverage – that they were running a trial on fish oils, giving pills to 3,000 children to see if it improved GCSE performance. I pointed out, along [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh, hang on, now they are releasing some results from the Durham fish oil &quot;trial&quot;?</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2008/09/oh-hang-on-now-they-are-releasing-some-results-from-the-durham-fish-oil-trial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think it&#8217;s clear now that Madeleine Portwood and Dave Ford, the leading figures behind the Durham fish oil &#34;trial&#34;, will be providing us with comedy and teaching opportunities for many years to come. First they said they were doing a &#34;trial&#34;. Then when everyone pointed out it was incompetent research, they said that didnt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The fishy reckoning</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/09/the-fishy-reckoning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2007 01:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre The Guardian Saturday September 22 2007 So you will remember the fish oil pill stories of last year. For the new kids: pill company Equazen and Durham Council said they were doing a trial on them with their GCSE year, but it wasn&#8217;t really a proper trial, for example there was no control [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Surrogate Outcome Proves Something Beyond All Reasonable Human Doubt&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/03/surrogate-outcome-proves-something-beyond-all-reasonable-human-doubt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 08:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m very much looking forward to this important press release, of a study in 4 children, making massive international news. The experiment is part of the promotional activity for another omega-3 pill called VegEPA, and a Channel Five documentary on children and diet to be broadcast later this week: it is unpublished, and this time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s wrong with Dr Gillian McKeith PhD?</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2007/02/ms-gillian-mckeith-banned-from-calling-herself-a-doctor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2007/02/ms-gillian-mckeith-banned-from-calling-herself-a-doctor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2007 00:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For years, &#8216;Dr&#8217; Gillian McKeith has used her title to sell TV shows, diet books and herbal sex pills. Now the Advertising Standards Authority has stepped in. Yet the real problem is not what she calls herself, but the mumbo-jumbo she dresses up as scientific fact, says Ben Goldacre Ben Goldacre Monday February 12, 2007 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just&#8230; Show&#8230; Me&#8230; The&#8230; Data&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/11/just-show-me-the-data/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2006/11/just-show-me-the-data/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Nov 2006 01:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben GoldacreSaturday November 11, 2006The Guardian I don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;ve ever tried using the Freedom of Information Act: it&#8217;s an excellent trouble making tool, and you do feel quite James Bond, but the act has its flaws. One being that if you ask for too much, as one lone, obsessive, disproportionately pedantic science columnist, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s some data in here somewhere&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/10/trout-are-freshwater-fish-and-have-underwater-weapons/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2006/10/trout-are-freshwater-fish-and-have-underwater-weapons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Oct 2006 00:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday October 7, 2006 The Guardian It is often unfairly assumed that I am a tenacious obsessive who refuses to let go. So at Durham council &#8211; as reported all over the newspapers and television &#8211; they&#8217;ve done loads of research on omega-3 fish oils making kids clever. It&#8217;s all very well saying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;It&#8217;s not a trial&#8230; wait&#8230; it is&#8230; and the evidence does show&#8230; and&#8230; and it&#8217;s for the KIDS&#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/10/its-not-a-trial-wait-it-is-and-the-evidence-does-show-and-and-its-for-the-kids/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2006/10/its-not-a-trial-wait-it-is-and-the-evidence-does-show-and-and-its-for-the-kids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2006 00:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kelliher&#8217;s been busy with letters@guardian.co.uk It&#8217;s a definite improvement on the really rather revolting blog postings from the Portwood camp but addresses none of the interesting questions, and simply re-states the blander aspects of the case which have already been torpedoed. There are now much more interesting things to say on this than go over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Pharma And Pill Peddlers</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/09/big-pharma-and-pill-peddlers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Sep 2006 01:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday September 23, 2006 The Guardian So where were we? Oh yes. Durham Council is running a highly dubious &#8220;trial&#8221; of a food supplement that is methodologically crippled, and largely incapable of giving meaningful data, but in the process Durham Council staff are appearing all over the papers and television in news stories [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking Deeper Into My Fishy New Friends</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/09/looking-deeper-into-my-new-fishy-friends/</link>
		<comments>http://www.badscience.net/2006/09/looking-deeper-into-my-new-fishy-friends/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Sep 2006 01:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday September 16, 2006 The Guardian Regular readers will have established by now that most journalists are so scientifically inept, and so eager to run with â€œpill solves complex social problemâ€ stories, that companies like Equazen selling their Eye-Q fish oil tablets for children with blanket media coverage can come out very nicely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Trial That Ate Itself</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2006/09/the-trial-that-ate-itself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Sep 2006 00:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Saturday September 9, 2006 The Guardian Fish oil is clearly a matter of huge national importance. Channel 4 and ITV (and the Daily Mail, and the BBC) all report on a plan by education officials in County Durham to give £1 million worth of omega-3 fish oils, to 5,000 children as they approach [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beware alt.therapy</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2005/04/beware-alttherapy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2005 14:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Goldacre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre Thursday April 28, 2005 The Guardian Â· Sometimes I have elaborate and grotesque fantasies about alternative therapists, like the reliably foolish Susan Clark from the Sunday Times&#8217; &#8220;What&#8217;s the alternative?&#8221; column. This week she was lecturing us on Omega-3 oils, in the pseudoscientific, jargon-laden, authoritarian rhetoric typical of the alternative therapies. They like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Polystyrene and calm kids</title>
		<link>http://www.badscience.net/2003/11/polystyrene-and-calm-kids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2003 03:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Polystyrene and calm kids Ben Goldacre Thursday November 6, 2003 The Guardian Talk bad science Â· It&#8217;s been a great week for Bad Science. I was delighted to see designer Paul Cocksedge explaining in Elle magazine how he had made a lampshade out of polystyrene cups. &#8220;When I heat them, they bond together, all the [...]]]></description>
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