If I was writing a lifestyle book it would have the same advice on every page, and you’d know it all already.
BEN GOLDACREThere 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.
More Ben Goldacre Quotes
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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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I think you’ll find it’s a bit more complicated than that.
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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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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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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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The plural of anecdotes is not data
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I think you’ll find it’s a bit more complicated than that.
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Amazing things happen when you pull individual pieces of information together into larger linked datasets: meaning emerges, as you produce facts from figures.
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Just just because there are flaws in aircraft design that doesn’t mean flying carpets exist.
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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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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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Eat lots of fruit and vegetables, and live your whole life in every way as well as you can: exercise regularly as part of your daily routine, avoid obesity, don’t drink too much, don’t smoke, and don’t get distracted from the real, basic, simple causes of ill health.
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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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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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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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