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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

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
I think you’ll find it’s a bit more complicated than that.
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Bits Complicated Thinking
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
Real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else’s position.
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Inspiration Motivation Real
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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Book Ends might
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
You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.
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Argument People Reason
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
I hope that you will be asked to participate in a trial at some stage in your disease
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Disease Stage Trials
Just just because there are flaws in aircraft design that doesn’t mean flying carpets exist.
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Design Mean Pain
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
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
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
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
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

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