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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

Real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else’s position.
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Inspiration Motivation Real
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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Daily Excercise Life Lot Obesity Routine Vegetable
You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.
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Argument People Reason
These corporations run our culture, and they riddle it with bullshit.
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Bullshit Culture Running
There is this peculiar blind spot in the culture of academic medicine around whether withholding trial results is research misconduct. People who work in any industry can reinforce each others’ ideas about what is okay.
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Blind Ideas Medicine Spots
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I think you’ll find it’s a bit more complicated than that.
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Bits Complicated Thinking
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
Just just because there are flaws in aircraft design that doesn’t mean flying carpets exist.
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Design Mean Pain

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