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	<title>The Why Files &#187; Science as a human endeavor</title>
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		<title>Phony science</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New study finds 2 percent of scientists admit faking data; 14 percent say colleagues have done it. Problems are most common in drug and other medical studies.]]></description>
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		<title>Pacific migrations: New evidence on ancient human voyages</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A stone tool discovered in Polynesia came from Hawaii -- 2500 miles away. Modern analytical techniques show that Polynesians did sail thousands of miles across the ocean -- without a compass.]]></description>
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		<title>Scrapping Science: Do Facts Really Matter?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2006 22:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama: "...promoting science isn’t just about providing resources—it’s about protecting free and open inquiry. It’s about listening to what our scientists have to say, even when it’s inconvenient—especially when it’s inconvenient." What science issues face his administration?]]></description>
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		<title>India&#8217;s Red Rain: Aliens or Hype?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2006 20:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did red rain in India carry alien bacteria? One Indian scientist thinks so.  Others say it was just spores of a common alga. Pay your money, take your choice!]]></description>
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		<title>Long-Distance Prayer Fails Trial</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Apr 2006 19:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People pray for the health of friends and family. Can science prove these prayers work? Should it try? Random, double-blind studies tread the natural-supernatural schism.]]></description>
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		<title>Why Files Rockin&#8217; New Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2005 16:08:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new year is a chance to bring sanity to our medical, scientific and environmental disasters. Here's our wish-list for a better New Year!]]></description>
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		<title>Space Travel: Humans vs. Robots</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2004 15:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bush proposes mission to moon and Mars, but how great are the scientific payoffs of this expensive, risky adventure? Would it be smarter – and cheaper – to send robots?]]></description>
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		<title>Forensic Anthropology</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2003 20:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Why File surveys the latest in forensic anthropology, with a visit to the Forensic Anthropology Center at the University of Tennessee, AKA The Body Farm.]]></description>
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		<title>Nobel Prizefight</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2003 20:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology given to inventors of MRI machine -- but were these guys really the inventors? Meet an unprecedented PR campaign to change the Nobel.]]></description>
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		<title>Nuclear Wizard Dies</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2003 18:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edward Teller helped invent the hydrogen bomb, then pushed missile defense. By public advocacy and secret research, he changed the 20th century.]]></description>
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