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Just just because there are flaws in aircraft design that doesn’t mean flying carpets exist.

Ben Goldacre

Science has authority not because of white coats or titles, but because of precision and transparency: you explain your theory, set out your evidence, and reference the studies that support your case.
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Coats Support White
Real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else’s position.
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Inspiration Motivation Real
I think you’ll find it’s a bit more complicated than that.
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Bits Complicated Thinking
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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Differences Medicine Teaching
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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Change Own Political Require
Just just because there are flaws in aircraft design that doesn’t mean flying carpets exist.
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Design Mean Pain
You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.
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Argument People Reason
These corporations run our culture, and they riddle it with bullshit.
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Bullshit Culture Running
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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Book Ends might
As it is a major component of blood, water is vital for transporting oxygen to the brain. Heaven forbid that your blood should dry out.
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Blood Oxygen Water
Yes. I’m a doctor, an epidemiologist, and lots of my professional colleagues flip back and forth between industry and medical roles. I know them; they are not bad people. But it is possible for good people in bad systems to do things that inflict enormous harm.
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Doctors People Roles
I write about misuses of evidence in plenty of different spheres: scaremongering journalists, obvious quacks and naturopaths, and flaws in the way that evidence is used in mainstream academia, medicine and in (government) policy.
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Different Interesting Writing
Transparency and detail are everything in science.
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Details Everything Transparency
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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Book Real Writing
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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Interesting Medicine Trick
Positive findings are around twice as likely to be published as negative findings. This is a cancer at the core of evidence-based medicine.
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Cancer Inspiration Motivation

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