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Ben Goldacre

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
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
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
I think you’ll find it’s a bit more complicated than that.
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Bits Complicated Thinking
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
Real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else’s position.
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Inspiration Motivation Real
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’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
These corporations run our culture, and they riddle it with bullshit.
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Bullshit Culture Running
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
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
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
You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.
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Argument People Reason
You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.
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Body Mind Play
The plural of anecdotes is not data
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Anecdotes Data Plural
Transparency and detail are everything in science.
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Details Everything Transparency

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