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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

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
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 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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Different Interesting Writing
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
Just just because there are flaws in aircraft design that doesn’t mean flying carpets exist.
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Design Mean Pain
Real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else’s position.
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Inspiration Motivation Real
These corporations run our culture, and they riddle it with bullshit.
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Bullshit Culture Running
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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Data Fabric Pavement
Transparency and detail are everything in science.
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Details Everything Transparency
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
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
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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Practice Teacher Teaching
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
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
The plural of anecdotes is not data
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Anecdotes Data Plural
The placebo effect is one of the most fascinating things in the whole of medicine. It’s not just about taking a pill, and your performance and your pain getting better. It’s about our beliefs and expectations. It’s about the cultural meaning of a treatment.
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Inspiration Motivation Pain

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