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            <title><![CDATA[Goodbye Discover]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The end of this Neuroskeptic era]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Erection of a Placebo]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[When yesterday's placebo is tomorrow's treatment]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Invisibility of COVID-19]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Dialogue With Dreamers]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Man Who Thought AIDS Was All In The Mind]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[I look at one of the most remarkable articles in the history of psychology]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Are Effect Sizes in Psychology Meaningless?]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Brain Stimulation's Complex Emotional Effects]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Mapping the emotional responses to deep brain stimulation]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Curiously Written Coronavirus Paper]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The mystery of "extreme acute respiratory syndrome"]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Questions from 1920 Still Haunt Neuroscience]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A 100-year-old paper anticipated key issues in modern neuroscience]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Ethics of "Human Brain Surrogates"]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The ethical questions raised by emerging neuro-technologies]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Christmas, Death and Surgeons' Birthdays]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Should a paper on deaths following surgery have been published as a Christmas special?]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Has The Pandemic Affected Mental Health Research?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[I look at how COVID-19 is driving mental health research]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[On "Pivotal Mental States"]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A new theory of profound psychological change.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Surprising Accuracy of Memory]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2020 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Should Psychologists Talk About Their Own Mental Health?]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[From research to "me-search."]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Recording Brain Activity Through the Mouth]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Neuroscientists introduce a new tool to detect hippocampal activity.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[A COVID-19 conspiracy theory is the latest in a long line of myths about the pineal gland.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The "Synergistic Core" of the Human Brain?]]></title>
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