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		<title>Will Bacterial Goop Replace Agriculture?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2020 10:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Guardian's George Monbiot says fermented bug goop will shut down agriculture and the meat industry within 15 years and we'll all have to go vegan. Really?]]></description>
		
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		<title>Is Organic Beef &#8220;50% Healthier&#8221;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2016 08:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Another deeply-flawed paper reported uncritically by the media. Conflicts of interest, P-hacking, flawed logic... Spoiler Alert: 50% healthier? Bullshit.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Bishops Demand Paralysis for Kenyan Children</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2015 09:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Those crazy Kenyan bishops did their best to keep tetanus endemic and causing 100,000+ deaths a year - now they're bringing polio back...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Aspartame. Again. Again.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2015 14:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Crikey. Hot on the heels of the last post the Food Standards Agency has just published the results of a randomised, placebo-controlled, double-blind crossover study (the gold standard) showing that the purported ill-effects of aspartame consumption are quite simply Utter, Utter Bollocks (µ²B). Told you. The study concluded that the participants - who were self-diagnosed]]></description>
		
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		<title>Thinktank: Pseudoscience Part II</title>
		<link>https://rectofossal.com/thinktank-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2014 21:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Oh dear. My post yesterday detailed the lack of response from Birmingham's science museum, Thinktank, to my complaint regarding rampant pseudoscience in several of their exhibits. One was their ascribing woo health and astrological claims to rocks they were selling to kids, the other was a GMO exhibit that was, well, devoid of any science]]></description>
		
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		<title>Thinktank: the Birmingham Museum of Pseudoscience</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2014 17:04:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Birmingham in the heart of England has a wonderful scientific heritage as well as an industrial one - it was Birmingham that sparked the Industrial Revolution - and it also boasts an excellent science museum, Thinktank. For my money it's better than the one in London, especially for small children. But it's allowed pseudoscience and other dangerous cognitive]]></description>
		
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		<title>Bugs Up Your Arse Cause Voices In Your Head</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2014 15:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Several sources including IFLScience have set the Social Meeja Intertubes alight with the fascinating suggestion that your gut microbiota control your appetite. [NOTE: This article was written in the United Arab Emirates where rectofossal.com is a banned website; in the UAE homosexuality is illegal, rape victims are jailed, it's customary to wipe your arse with your hand but]]></description>
		
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		<title>Virus lives on bacteria in your poop: meet crAssphage!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2014 21:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Oh Dear. Never let microbiologists name stuff. We can’t even classify Strep properly so when a new virus is discovered that lives up half the human race’s Chocolate Starfishes you just know it’s not going to end well. Newly-discovered crAssphage (seriously!) doesn’t infect us: it attacks some of the resident bacteria among the thousands of species]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Organic Delusion</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2014 21:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA['Organic' food remains a scientifically and nutritionally bankrupt con perpetrated on us that I've been meaning to write about for a while. But it's back in the news again... Gotta love the Grauniad. For non-UK readers unfamiliar with our nation’s favourite left-leaning ‘quality’ newspaper, if you’re a yoghurt-weaving, lentil-plaiting, muesli-snorting disabled vegan LGBT social worker]]></description>
		
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		<title>Natural Is Best. Innit.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2014 16:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’ve threatened to write about the Naturalistic Fallacy before; it’s a huge topic but one aspect of this fascinating cognitive bias has been doing the rounds again recently: the premise that ‘natural’ food is better than 'synthetic' foods or 'chemicals'. There are several problems with this notion. One is that ‘natural’ is essentially a meaningless term; everything]]></description>
		
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