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		<title>Science: So What? Commissioning and promoting bad research in the name of science communications</title>
		<link>http://translucentscience.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/science-so-what-so-everything/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>oatmealts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Science: So What? and BIS commission and promote poor quality research<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=translucentscience.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3813722&amp;post=227&amp;subd=translucentscience&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>1 in 6 NHS Patients Is Misdiagnosed: BBC Scotland Investigation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>oatmealts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One in six patients in the NHS is misdiagnosed, according to an investigation by BBC Scotland. There is no comprehensive system for reporting such errors and at present there are more perceived risks than benefits in reporting such misdiagnoses.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=translucentscience.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3813722&amp;post=211&amp;subd=translucentscience&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Science: So What Is Looking for a Dialogue Manager</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>oatmealts</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dialogue Manager]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Science: So What]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://evidencematters.org/?p=190</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Science: So What has a job opening for a Dialogue Manager.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=translucentscience.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3813722&amp;post=190&amp;subd=translucentscience&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Alan Breen in praise of chiropractic and democracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>oatmealts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[chiropractic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan Breen]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[British Chiropractic Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edzard Ernst]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evidence]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[libel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We were pleased to see a call from Prof Alan Breen (at the Anglo-European College of Chiropractic, and on two GCC committees) for a move beyond or supplement to evidence-based medicine in order to achieve a &#8220;more democratic and inclusive&#8230;age&#8221; in &#8220;musculoskeletal practice&#8221;. However, it is unfortunate that Breen fails to follow through on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=translucentscience.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3813722&amp;post=178&amp;subd=translucentscience&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Telegraph runs uncritical articles discussing homoeopathy and unconventional theories about climate change</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:14:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonhw</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Annabel Croft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Irvine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frances Glover]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global warming]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Telegraph runs a lot of excellent articles. However, it is unfortunate that today they ran two that fell below their usual standards. An article by Frances Glover on Annabel Croft&#8217;s use of homoeopathy makes significant errors. The article describes homoeopathy as a form of complementary treatment based on the premise that tiny quantities of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=translucentscience.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3813722&amp;post=172&amp;subd=translucentscience&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>British Chiropractic Association and The Plethora of Evidence for Paediatric Asthma</title>
		<link>http://translucentscience.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/british-chiropractic-association-and-the-plethora-of-evidence-for-paediatric-asthma/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>oatmealts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[chiropractic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asthma]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BCA is to be commended for releasing the details of the research papers they rely upon for their stance that "chiropractic can help various childhood conditions" such as asthma. Evidence Matters examines the evidence for asthma.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=translucentscience.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3813722&amp;post=77&amp;subd=translucentscience&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chiropractors accuse critics of &#8220;witch hunt&#8221; for examining evidence</title>
		<link>http://translucentscience.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/chiropractors-accuse-critics-of-witch-hunt-for-examining-evidence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>oatmealts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The McTimoney Association has advised those chiropractors who are registered with it to take down their websites and remove patient information leaflets. The association says that critics are carrying out a witch hunt. The critics argue that they are subjecting the clinical evidence for chiropractic claims to robust scrutiny.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=translucentscience.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3813722&amp;post=70&amp;subd=translucentscience&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Evidence Matters on UK political parties manifestos for the EU elections</title>
		<link>http://translucentscience.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/sciencepunk-and-layscience/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>oatmealts</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://evidencematters.org/?p=63</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Evidence Matters is pleased to see that science bloggers Frank Swain and Martin Robbins, of Sciencepunk and Layscience respectively, have an article on The Guardian website analysing the science policies of the various UK political parties standing in the forthcoming EU elections on 6th June. Frank and Martin have blogged and analysed the parties responses [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=translucentscience.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3813722&amp;post=63&amp;subd=translucentscience&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>C4 and the Lamentable Kitchen Pharmacy</title>
		<link>http://translucentscience.wordpress.com/2009/01/09/c4-and-the-lamentable-kitchen-pharmacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>oatmealts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[television]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bad science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Channel 4]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chlorophyll]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gillian McKeith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[haemoglobin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Channel 4 is unnaturally fond of the alt.reality nonsense that chlorophyll so strongly resembles haemoglobin that eating it in the form of dark green plants will oxygenate the blood. Dr Ben Goldacre of Bad Science has ridiculed them for giving a platform to this nonsense since 2004 but they have chosen to repeat it, de novo, in the form of Annelise Whitfield of Kitchen Pharmacy.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=translucentscience.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3813722&amp;post=11&amp;subd=translucentscience&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Flynn MP Early Day Motion on Dore (and bloggers)</title>
		<link>http://translucentscience.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/paul-flynn-mp-early-day-motion-on-dore-and-bloggers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>oatmealts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dore UK]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daily Mail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dyslexia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dyspraxia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Early Day Motion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Flynn MP has tabled an Early Day Motion in Parliarment, on the promotion of Dore. The Motion states: That this House is appalled at the gullible uncritical promotion by the media of Dore, a claimed miracle cure for dyslexia, in the absence of scientific proof of its value; notes that there were five resignations [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=translucentscience.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3813722&amp;post=10&amp;subd=translucentscience&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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