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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.

Ben Goldacre

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 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
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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Facts Pieces Together
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
Transparency and detail are everything in science.
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Details Everything Transparency
The plural of anecdotes is not data
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Anecdotes Data Plural
You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.
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Argument People Reason
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
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
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
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
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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Blood Oxygen Water
Just just because there are flaws in aircraft design that doesn’t mean flying carpets exist.
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Design Mean Pain
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

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