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I agree, the world would be a better place if doctors were less enthusiastic about adopting very new drugs.

Ben Goldacre

There are many differences between medicine and teaching, but they have much in common. Both involve craft and personal expertise, learned through experience; but both can be informed by the experience of others.
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Differences Medicine Teaching
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
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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Interesting Medicine Trick
These corporations run our culture, and they riddle it with bullshit.
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Bullshit Culture Running
I think you’ll find it’s a bit more complicated than that.
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Bits Complicated Thinking
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
You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.
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Body Mind Play
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
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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Book Real Writing
I think you’ll find it’s a bit more complicated than that.
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Bits Complicated Thinking
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
Real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else’s position.
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Inspiration Motivation Real
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 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
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

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