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But as we will see, even these things are hard to do on your own, and in reality require wholesale social and political changes.
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Change Own Political Require
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
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
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
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
Real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else’s position.
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Inspiration Motivation Real
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
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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Activities Leisure People Talking
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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Practice Teacher Teaching
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
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
You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.
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Argument People Reason
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 think you’ll find it’s a bit more complicated than that.
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Bits Complicated Thinking

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