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The word "probably" is the one that matters: Goldacre is big on probability, and a relentless scourge of "science" journalism: the kind of lazy hackwork that picks up a spurious finding or a dodgy argument and presents it as evidence of cause and effect.
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It is the particular fault of those MPs who have previously used every dodgy argument in defence of unelected privilege to thwart attempts to democratise the upper house.
If the American politicians making jokes about Bolshoi Petroleum applied the same standards to other countries and their own companies, their cars would have run out of gas long ago.But there is a stronger argument than the difficulty of maintaining high standards in a dodgy industry: the division of responsibility between corporate and political actors.
Soon came a dodgy email.
He's a dodgy prime minister surrounded by dodgy donors".
And Britain has a dodgy reputation.
"A dodgy property developer in the White House.
"They said Demba Ba had a dodgy knee.
It's a dodgy industry," he said.
Well, that and a dodgy ex.
Doesn't a dodgy appendix need removing?
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