If I was writing a lifestyle book it would have the same advice on every page, and you’d know it all already.
BEN GOLDACRETeaching 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.
More Ben Goldacre Quotes
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Doctors and patients need as much data as possible to make an informed decision about what treatment is best.
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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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I think you’ll find it’s a bit more complicated than that.
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Real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else’s position.
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I agree, the world would be a better place if doctors were less enthusiastic about adopting very new drugs.
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I think you’ll find it’s a bit more complicated than that.
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You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.
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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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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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These corporations run our culture, and they riddle it with bullshit.
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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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You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.
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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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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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The plural of anecdotes is not data
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