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	<description>A tale. Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.</description>
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		<title>Astrotweeting</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 10:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Chapman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Astroturfing is industry supported lobbying in the guise of grass roots activism. It takes its name from Astroturf, the well-known brand of artificial grass. The first astroturfing group I recall encountering was Microsoft&#8217;s &#8220;Freedom to Innovate Network&#8221;, set up when they were in court over abuses of near-monopoly power. The tobacco industry is the best [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Piggy palace</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 22:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Chapman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Stuff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guinea pigs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is for Tom, mainly. Some pictures of our &#8220;piggy palace&#8221; in the conservatory. It&#8217;s heated by two tubular heaters, switched by a thermostat. The heaters live behind mesh panels with Coroplast partway up to keep the hay in. The run itself is built of the mesh shelving panels (see the box for details of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Standard Disclaimers Apply</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Chapman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over on RationalWiki I found an excellent article on the Quack Miranda Warning: These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Funnily enough a very similar but more explicit disclaimer applies to sellers of the HCG diet scam: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From the department of not getting it (alt med division)</title>
		<link>http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk/blahg/2012/04/from-the-department-of-not-getting-it-alt-med-division/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=from-the-department-of-not-getting-it-alt-med-division</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 17:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Chapman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Woo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CAM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sCAM]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a story of comprehensive failure to grasp reality: Riding to make alternative medicine mainstream. The mechanism to make alternative medicine mainstream already exists, and always has done. It has nothing to do with bicycles (much as I love them). What you do is this: design a robust trial methodology, then you test your alternative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ms Scrayen? Ms Streisand on Line 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Chapman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Homeopathy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spartacus]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk/blahg/?p=554</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Streisand effect is what happens when you attempt to suppress something you don&#8217;t like, and the attempt blows up in your face, making the thing vastly more prominent than it otherwise would have been. It&#8217;s well known in skeptic circles, but apparently not everyone has heard of it. Take Francine Scrayen, for example. Further [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I love the NHS</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Chapman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NHS is not perfect, but at its best it can be unutterably wonderful. My sister Laura died a few years back. it was very sudden, her illness was much further advanced than usual on admission because she was so strong and had fought it off. The intensive therapy unit at Durham were fabulous. They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Policy-based evidence making</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 21:43:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Chapman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cycling]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is by way of a brief return to an old theme. When people want something to be true, but are confounded by a lack of evidence, they may set about trying to create evidence to somehow make it true. The evidence they create will have a tendency to be less than wonderful as an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s more likely?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 21:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Chapman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[burzynski]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Homeopathy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Prompted by the excellent &#8220;Homeopathy and its kindred delusions&#8220;, a remarkably thorough and methodical takedown of the nonsense that is homeopathy even while Samuel Hahnemann was still alive, I was struck by the parallels of one line of reasoning with the current furore over Burzynski. In case you hadn&#8217;t noticed, Stanislaw Burzynski is a Polish-born [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter to Reading Chronicle re. Burzynski</title>
		<link>http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk/blahg/2012/03/533/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=533</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 19:44:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Chapman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To the editor of the Reading Chronicle: Hi. I have seen the website that Amelia Saunders&#8217; parents have put up at &#60;http://www.ameliasmiracle.com/&#62; &#8211; it says they are talking to the Chronicle about the case. It&#8217;s a heartbreaking story, but the backstory is sinister and very hard to tackle objectively, as the Guardian found out recently. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More research needed</title>
		<link>http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk/blahg/2012/02/more-research-needed/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=more-research-needed</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 14:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Chapman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A plaintive cry from the homeopathy fan club is that more research is needed into homeopathy, with the implication that this research will somehow prove their case. A lot of research has already been done.  According to several meta-analyses the evidence falls, in the main, into one of two categories: Poorly conducted trials (unblinded, small [...]]]></description>
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