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only a press release
:
http://news.google.co.uk/news/story?pz=1&cf=all&ned=uk&hl=en&q=iarc&ncl=dZVLtSHEkU8Cq_MxKk 87AKCKGvSrM

limits of the research
:
http://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/pr/2011/pdfs/pr208_E.pdf

hasn’t changed much
:
http://journals.lww.com/epidem/Fulltext/2009/09000/Health_Effects_of_Mobile_Telephones.6.aspx

in every 100,000
:
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/StatBase/Product.asp?vlnk=7720

‘prospective cohort study’
:
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/StatBase/Product.asp?vlnk=7720

’prospective cohort study’:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohort_study

‘retrospective case-control study’
:
http://resources.bmj.com/bmj/readers/readers/epidemiology-for-the-uninitiated/8-case-control-and-cross-sectional-studies

Interphone study
:
http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/39/3/675.abstract

Anecdotes Are Great. If They Really Illustrate the Data

Channel 4 News
:
http://www.channel4.com/news/catch-up/display/playlistref/250711/clipid/250711_4ON_DUCHENNE_25

Study shows no such thing
:
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2811%2960756-3/abstract

Great Ormond Street press release
:
http://bgarchive.posterous.com/first-targeted-treatment-success-for-duchenne

tracked down online
:
http://twitter.com/%C2%A3%21/uclnews/status/95506900220776449

Evan Harris
:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/political-science

has been supoptimal
:
http://www.badscience.net/2009/05/dodgy-academic-pr/

biggest diseases in medicine
:
http://www.theguardian.com/education/medicine

patients on doxazosin
:
http://ebm.bmj.com/content/5/6/172.full.pdf

blood test called HbA1c
:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycated_hemoglobin

reduce your HbA1c level
:
http://www.bmj.com/content/341/bmj.c4805.full

turned out that rosiglitazone
:
http://www.badscience.net/index.php?s=rosiglitazone

drug has now been suspended
:
http://www.ema.europa.eu/ema/index.jsp?curl=pages/news_and_events/news/2010/09/news_detail_001119.jsp&murl=menus/news_and_events/news_and_events.jsp&mi d=WC0b01ac058004d5c1&jsenabled=false

The Strange Case of the Magnetic Wine

The Strange Case
:
http://www.badscience.net/2003/12/the-strange-case-of-the-magnetic-wine/

What Is Science?: First, Magnetise Your Wine

What Is Science
:
http://www.badscience.net/2005/12/what-is-science-first-magnetise-your-wine/

BAD ACADEMIA

What If Academics Were as Dumb as Quacks with Statistics

What if Academics
:
http://www.badscience.net/2011/10/what-if-academics-were-as-dumb-as-quacks-with-statistics/

publish a mighty torpedo
:
http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v14/n9/full/nn.2886.html

Brain-Imaging Studies Report More Positive Findings Than Their Numbers Can Support. This Is Fishy

Brain-Imaging Studies
:
http://www.badscience.net/2011/08/brain-imaging-studies-report-more-positive-findings-than-their-numbers-can-support-this-is-fishy/

publication bias:
http://www.badscience.net/category/publication-bias/

took a different approach
:
http://archpsyc.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/archgenpsychiatry.2011.28

‘None of Your Damn Business’

None of Your
:
http://www.badscience.net/2011/01/none-of-your-damn-business/

2004 published a study
:
http://ats.ctsnetjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/annts;78/4/1433

it was retracted
:
http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/2011/01/04/thoracic-surgery-journal-retracts-hypertension-study-marred-by-troubled-data/

Dr L. Henry Edmunds Jr, MD
:
http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/surgery/faculty/lhe.html

none of your damn business
:
http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/2011/01/05/why-was-that-paper-retracted-editor-to-retraction-watch-its-none-of-your-damn-business/

retracted a 2009 paper
:
http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/2010/12/17/journal-of-the-american-chemical-society-retracts-gold-nanoparticle-paper/

ad hoc blog tracking
:
http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/2010/08/03/why-write-a-blog-about-retractions/

stories behind retractions
:
http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/2010/10/22/update-on-axel-ullrich-retractions-lead-author-manipulated-figures-says-ullrich/

study last year
:
http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.1185/03007991003603804

policing academic misconduct
:
http://www.bmj.com/content/331/7511/288.full

Twelve Monkeys. No … Eight. Wait, Sorry, I Meant Fourteen

Twelve Monkeys
:
http://www.badscience.net/2010/01/12-monkeys-no-8-wait-sorry-i-meant-14/

Animals in Research
:
http://www.nc3rs.org.uk/

PLoS One
:
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0007824

Medical Hypotheses
Fails the Aids Test

Medical Hypotheses
:
http://www.badscience.net/2009/09/medical-hypotheses-fails-the-aids-test/

in the newspapers
:
http://news.google.co.uk/news/more?um=1&ned=uk&cf=all&ncl=dEYVi6Gb688Hm1MSCLQllCltTV9pM

Peer review
:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_review

Aidstruth.org
:
http://aidstruth.org/about

Elsevier have withdrawn
:
http://aidstruth.org/news/2009/elsevier-retracts-duesberg%E2%80%99s-aids-denialist-article

one surreally crass paper
:
http://www.badscience.net/2007/08/observations-on-the-classification-of-idiots/

Italian doctors argued
:
http://www.badscience.net/2007/08/observations-on-the-classification-of-idiots/

treatment for nasal congestion
:
http://www.badscience.net/2008/10/more-crap-journals/

Peter Duesberg and David Rasnick
:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19619953

Lancet
paper they reference
:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16890831

Bruce Charlton has argued
:
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/335/7617/451

written to Medline
:
http://www.aidstruth.org/sites/aidstruth.org/files/NLMLetter-2009.08.05.pdf

deaths of an estimated
:
http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/107/427/157

330,000 people
:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18931626

Observations on the Classification of Idiots

Observations on
:
http://www.badscience.net/2007/08/observations-on-the-classification-of-idiots/

More Crap Journals?

More Crap Journals
:
http://www.badscience.net/2008/10/more-crap-journals/

potential treatment of nasal congestion
:
http://www.medical-hypotheses.com/article/S0306-9877(08)00115-1/fulltext

unreliable and potentially hazardous
:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030698770800354X

surreally crass paper
:
http://www.badscience.net/2007/08/observations-on-the-classification-of-idiots/

more from him online
:
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/335/7617/451

only one in four
:
http://www.badscience.net/2008/09/seriously-is-the-daily-mail-any-worse-than-your-average-academic-journal/

GOVERNMENT STATISTICS

If You Want to Be Trusted More: Claim Less

If You Want
:
http://www.badscience.net/2010/01/if-you-want-to-be-trusted-more-claim-less/

Sunday Times
:
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/public_sector/article6974029.ece

copycat story
:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/6925897/Public-pay-races-ahead-in-recession.html

Survey of Hours and Earnings
:
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statBase/product.asp?vlnk=13101

ASHE 2009 data
:
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_labour/ASHE-2009/tab1_5a.xls

Is This the Worst Government Statistic Ever Created?

costs every household £452
:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2004590/Council-incompetence-costing-household-Britain-452-year.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

the
Express
agreed
:
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/253235/Councils-owe-you-rebate

proper story, from press release
:
http://www.communities.gov.uk/news/corporate/1925280

Department of Communities and Local Government
:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/localgovernment

‘Opera Solutions White Paper’
:
http://www.badscience.net/wp-content/uploads/Opera-gov-savings-local-gov.pdf

The ‘full report’
:
http://www.badscience.net/wp-content/uploads/Opera-gov-savings-local-gov.pdf

the biggest thing
:
http://www.niepbuiltenvironment.org.uk/documents/ReportonPotentialLocalGovernmentSavingsthrough BetterProcurementF.doc

Anarchy for the UK. Ish.

Anarchy for the UK
:
http://www.badscience.net/2011/04/anarchy-for-the-uk-ish/

The
Sun
said
:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3494359/Cops-charge-149-after-protest-against-cuts-turns-ugly.html

149 people charged
:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/mar/28/cuts-protest-violence-149-chargedhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/mar/28/cuts-protest-violence-149-charged

the
Manchester Evening News
carried
:
http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/1416475_boy-17-from-manchester-among-149-charged-over-violence-after-anti-cuts-march

138 were people
:
http://www.met.police.uk/pressbureau/Bur27/page01.htm

peaceful occupation of Fortnum & Mason
:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/mar/28/cuts-protest-uk-uncut-fortnum

systematic review
:
http://www.bmj.com/content/340/bmj.c2369.full

sports participation in Barcelona
:
http://olympicstudies.uab.es/pdf/wp039_eng.pdf

being quietly dropped
:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/mar/28/jeremy-hunt-london-2012-legacy

More Than Sixty Children Saved from Abuse

More than Sixty
:
http://www.badscience.net/2010/08/more-than-60-children-saved-from-abuse/

during its pilot
:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/media-centre/news/child-protection-scheme

the
Sun
said
:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3077347/Sarahs-Law-hailed-a-success-as-scheme-rolls-out-nationwide.html

an excellent report
:
http://rds.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs10/horr32c.pdf

Conrad Quilty-Harper in the
Telegraph
:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/conradquiltyharper/100049409/the-sarahs-law-trial-didnt-save-60-children-from-sex-offenders/