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Transparency and detail are everything in science.

Ben Goldacre

Real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else’s position.
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Inspiration Motivation Real
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
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
I agree, the world would be a better place if doctors were less enthusiastic about adopting very new drugs.
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Adopt Doctors Drugs Enthusiastic
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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Children Talent
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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Inspiration Motivation Pain
You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.
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Body Mind Play
These corporations run our culture, and they riddle it with bullshit.
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Bullshit Culture Running
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
I think you’ll find it’s a bit more complicated than that.
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Bits Complicated Thinking
Data is the fabric of the modern world: just like we walk down pavements, so we trace routes through data, and build knowledge and products out of it.
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Data Fabric Pavement
I think you’ll find it’s a bit more complicated than that.
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Bits Complicated Thinking
I hope that you will be asked to participate in a trial at some stage in your disease
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Disease Stage Trials
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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Linking New Rule Source Transparently
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
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

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