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.
BEN GOLDACREAnd 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.
More Ben Goldacre Quotes
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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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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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These corporations run our culture, and they riddle it with bullshit.
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Doctors and patients need as much data as possible to make an informed decision about what treatment is best.
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Transparency and detail are everything in science.
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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 hope that you will be asked to participate in a trial at some stage in your disease
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Just just because there are flaws in aircraft design that doesn’t mean flying carpets exist.
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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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Children can be disgusting, and often they can develop extraordinary talents, but I’m yet to meet any child who can stimulate his carotid arteries inside his ribcage.
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The plural of anecdotes is not data
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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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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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You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.
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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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