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You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.

Ben Goldacre

I think you’ll find it’s a bit more complicated than that.
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Bits Complicated Thinking
Transparency and detail are everything in science.
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Details Everything Transparency
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
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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Daily Excercise Life Lot Obesity Routine Vegetable
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
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
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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Facts Pieces Together
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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Blind Ideas Medicine Spots
Doctors and patients need as much data as possible to make an informed decision about what treatment is best.
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Data Decision Doctors
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
Just just because there are flaws in aircraft design that doesn’t mean flying carpets exist.
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Design Mean Pain
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
The plural of anecdotes is not data
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Anecdotes Data Plural
I think you’ll find it’s a bit more complicated than that.
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Bits Complicated Thinking
You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.
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Body Mind Play
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

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