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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.

Ben Goldacre

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
Just just because there are flaws in aircraft design that doesn’t mean flying carpets exist.
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Design Mean Pain
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
Transparency and detail are everything in science.
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Details Everything Transparency
I think you’ll find it’s a bit more complicated than that.
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Bits Complicated Thinking
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
Real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else’s position.
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Inspiration Motivation Real
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
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
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
These corporations run our culture, and they riddle it with bullshit.
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Bullshit Culture Running
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
I think you’ll find it’s a bit more complicated than that.
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Bits Complicated Thinking
You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.
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Argument People Reason
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
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

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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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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