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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More Ben Goldacre Quotes
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These corporations run our culture, and they riddle it with bullshit.
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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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Transparency and detail are everything in science.
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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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Just just because there are flaws in aircraft design that doesn’t mean flying carpets exist.
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I think you’ll find it’s a bit more complicated than that.
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You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.
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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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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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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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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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I hope that you will be asked to participate in a trial at some stage in your disease
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Real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else’s position.
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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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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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