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  • Ben Goldacre Quote - Positive findings are around twice as likely to be published as negative findings. This is a cancer at the core of evidence-based medicine. Download This Image
  • Ben Goldacre Quote - 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 Quote - 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 Quote - 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 Quote - 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 Quote - 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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Goldacre Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Goldacre Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Goldacre Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Goldacre Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Goldacre Quote - These corporations run our culture, and they riddle it with bullshit. Download This Image

    These corporations run our culture, and they riddle it with bullshit.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Goldacre Quote - Real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else’s position. Download This Image

    Real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else’s position.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Goldacre Quote - You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted. Download This Image

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

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Goldacre Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Goldacre Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Goldacre Quote - I think you’ll find it’s a bit more complicated than that.

    I think you’ll find it’s a bit more complicated than that.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Goldacre Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Goldacre Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Goldacre Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Goldacre Quote - One of the things I always found interesting is the same tricks are used to distort medicine in all of those domains.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Goldacre Quote - I agree, the world would be a better place if doctors were less enthusiastic about adopting very new drugs.

    I agree, the world would be a better place if doctors were less enthusiastic about adopting very new drugs.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Goldacre Quote - Amazing things happen when you pull individual pieces of information together into larger linked datasets: meaning emerges, as you produce facts from figures.

    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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