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.
BEN GOLDACREScience 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.
More Ben Goldacre Quotes
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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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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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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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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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You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.
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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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Data is the fabric of the modern world: just like we walk down pavements, so we trace routes through data, and build knowledge and products out of it.
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Just just because there are flaws in aircraft design that doesn’t mean flying carpets exist.
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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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Real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else’s position.
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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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Transparency and detail are everything in science.
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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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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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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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