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But as we will see, even these things are hard to do on your own, and in reality require wholesale social and political changes.

Ben Goldacre

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 think you’ll find it’s a bit more complicated than that.
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Bits Complicated Thinking
Transparency and detail are everything in science.
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Details Everything Transparency
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
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
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
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
You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.
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Body Mind Play
These corporations run our culture, and they riddle it with bullshit.
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Bullshit Culture Running
Just just because there are flaws in aircraft design that doesn’t mean flying carpets exist.
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Design Mean Pain
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
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
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
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 hope that you will be asked to participate in a trial at some stage in your disease
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Disease Stage Trials
The plural of anecdotes is not data
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Anecdotes Data Plural

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