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  Trivial Disputes There are no difficult ideas in this column. Like, for example, when I tell you about the Daily Telegraph front page headline which says “Abuse of cannabis puts 500 a week in hospital”, and it turns out they’re actually quoting a figure... Posted Feb 01 2008, 08:14 PM by Bad Science Feeds Filed under: amp, cannabis, daily telegraph, page headline, front page

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  GM carrot may help treat osteoporosis Source: Daily Telegraph Date: A GM carrot has been produced to help people absorb more calcium to help treat the brittle bone disease osteoporosis. The carrot that has been genetically altered to make higher amounts of a calcium transporting protein was... Posted Jan 22 2008, 11:33 AM by GMO Africa Feeds Filed under: gm, protein, texas aamp, calcium, carrot, osteoporosis, brittle bone disease, daily telegraph, disease osteoporosis, college station texas, m university college station

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  The Huff Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday January 19 2008 In 1954 a man called Darrell Huff published a book called “How to lie with statistics“. Chapter one is called “the sample with built in bias” and it reads exactly like this column... Posted Jan 18 2008, 04:05 PM by Bad Science Feeds Filed under: amp, guardian, daily telegraph, january 19, telegraph story, darrell huff