Amazing things happen when you pull individual pieces of information together into larger linked datasets: meaning emerges, as you produce facts from figures.
BEN GOLDACREYou are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.
More Ben Goldacre Quotes
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The placebo effect is one of the most fascinating things in the whole of medicine. It’s not just about taking a pill, and your performance and your pain getting better. It’s about our beliefs and expectations. It’s about the cultural meaning of a treatment.
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I agree, the world would be a better place if doctors were less enthusiastic about adopting very new drugs.
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Transparency and detail are everything in science.
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There is this peculiar blind spot in the culture of academic medicine around whether withholding trial results is research misconduct. People who work in any industry can reinforce each others’ ideas about what is okay.
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One of the things I always found interesting is the same tricks are used to distort medicine in all of those domains.
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Real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else’s position.
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Teaching needs an ecosystem that supports evidence-based practice. It will need better systems to disseminate the results of research more widely, but also a better understanding of research, so that teachers can be critical consumers of evidence.
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Just just because there are flaws in aircraft design that doesn’t mean flying carpets exist.
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But as we will see, even these things are hard to do on your own, and in reality require wholesale social and political changes.
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I spend a lot of time talking to people who disagree with me – I would go so far as to say that it’s my favourite leisure activity.
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And if, by the end [of this book], you reckon you might still disagree with me, then I offer you this: you’ll still be wrong, but you’ll be wrong with a lot more panache and flair than you could possibly manage right now.
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There are many differences between medicine and teaching, but they have much in common. Both involve craft and personal expertise, learned through experience; but both can be informed by the experience of others.
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If I was writing a lifestyle book it would have the same advice on every page, and you’d know it all already.
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I’ve detected myself using a new rule of thumb: if you don’t link to primary sources, I just don’t trust you.
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You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.
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