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		<title>Sticking it to crap research</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Because I run a course to help mid-career scientists get their papers published in peer-reviewed journals, I&#8217;m always on the look-out for really good papers, and for really bad ones. I also keep my eyes open for bad science reporting. It&#8217;s depressingly easy to find the latter, but it just got easier. Tom Scott has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2010/08/23/sticking-it-to-crap-research/</link>
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		<title>Data sharing: soon to be yesterday&#8217;s news?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times is a bit of a supertanker; it takes a while to get going on a subject. So by the time they run a drum-rolling front page story about some world-changing trend, you can be pretty sure that the trend is close to becoming the new status quo. I&#8217;m hoping that&#8217;s true [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2010/08/13/data-sharing-soon-to-be-yesterdays-news/</link>
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		<title>Tilting at windbags &#8212; it&#8217;s AIDS conference time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Illustration by Fernando Vicente This week, the Great and the Good of the AIDS industry gather in Vienna for the biennial AIDS circus. With delicious irony, the conference, held right next to the barracks of the UN&#8217;s Drug Warriors, will focus in part on getting more countries to do the one thing that really works [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2010/07/19/tilting-at-windbags-its-aids-conference-time/</link>
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		<title>Christians on a roll: a sermon on rent boys</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When we throw around the term &#8220;Rent Boy&#8221;, we usually mean a young man whose impeccable abs and other finery are for hire. A very privileged few of us mean a young man with impeccable abs who pays the rent. But we&#8217;ve been outdone by the Catholic hierarchy, which has combined the two but inverted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2010/07/06/christians-on-a-roll-a-sermon-on-rent-boys/</link>
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		<title>Another Evangelical hypocrite bites the dust</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Meena Saraswathi Seshu was a well-to-do Indian do-gooder who was determined to save India&#8217;s sex slaves from their evil traffickers. To her immense credit, illustrated in this nice profile in The Lancet, (pdf here), she changed her mind when she learned the facts. Not so the US Congressman who tried to bully her organisation SANGRAM [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2010/07/02/another-evangelical-hypocrite-bites-the-dust/</link>
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		<title>Outing the nerd: let&#8217;s share data</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a confession. Behind all the sex and drugs talk, I&#8217;m just a giant data nerd. I believe that health research data collected with taxpayers&#8217; money should be used to improve lives, not just to improve the career of a couple of scientists who got the research grant. And we&#8217;d improve lives faster if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2010/06/11/lets-share-data/</link>
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		<title>Troll of the Year Award: Am I a fungus or a Marxist?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have several loyal readers whose comments regularly make me laugh: this, for example. And I almost never refuse a comment unless it&#8217;s trying to sell a cure for AIDS or the commentator is too much of a pussy to give an e-mail address. But this one, from a fount of indignation calling Himself &#8220;Derrail&#8221;, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2010/05/28/am-i-a-fungus-or-a-marxist/</link>
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		<title>Own trumpet department: TED talk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been taken to task for posting TED talks from the UK&#8217;s new Fearless Leader, and neglecting to post my own. Here it is, if you have 18 minutes to spare. If you&#8217;ve only got four minutes, I would also thoroughly recommend spending it with comedian Julia Sweeney, as she has the &#8220;sex talk&#8221; with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2010/05/19/own-trumpet-department-ted-talk/</link>
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		<title>UK Election special: Vote down the nanny state</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After I heard David Cameron promise to make policy that went with the grain of human nature, I suggested that Britain&#8217;s sex workers should vote Tory. I wasn&#8217;t joking, though I haven&#8217;t had that much luck convincing friends in the business. Now, though, George McCoy has given us a proper analysis of candidates&#8217; position on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2010/05/05/vote-down-the-nanny-state/</link>
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		<title>Happy hookers: come celebrate in Chicago</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It looks as though the effort to throw more sex workers and clients in jail in Illinois will fail, at least in this legislative session. What better way to celebrate than by coming to a party in Chicago on Saturday night. Wear your best gold thong, and be ready for 90&#8242;s hip-hop up the wazoo. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2010/04/30/happy-hookers-come-celebrate-in-chicago/</link>
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