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  • Ben Goldacre Quote - 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.
  • Ben Goldacre Quote - 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.
  • Ben Goldacre Quote - 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.
  • Ben Goldacre Quote - 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.
  • Ben Goldacre Quote - 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.
  • Ben Goldacre Quote - 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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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.

Ben Goldacre

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Goldacre Quote - Positive findings are around twice as likely to be published as negative findings. This is a cancer at the core of evidence-based medicine. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Goldacre Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Goldacre Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Goldacre Quote - I’ve detected myself using a new rule of thumb: if you don’t link to primary sources, I just don’t trust you.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Goldacre Quote - Children can be disgusting, and often they can develop extraordinary talents, but I’m yet to meet any child who can stimulate his carotid arteries inside his ribcage.

    Children can be disgusting, and often they can develop extraordinary talents, but I’m yet to meet any child who can stimulate his carotid arteries inside his ribcage.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Goldacre Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Goldacre Quote - Amazing things happen when you pull individual pieces of information together into larger linked datasets: meaning emerges, as you produce facts from figures.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Goldacre Quote - I agree, the world would be a better place if doctors were less enthusiastic about adopting very new drugs.

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

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Goldacre Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Goldacre Quote - If I was writing a lifestyle book it would have the same advice on every page, and you’d know it all already.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Goldacre Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Goldacre Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Goldacre Quote - Doctors and patients need as much data as possible to make an informed decision about what treatment is best.

    Doctors and patients need as much data as possible to make an informed decision about what treatment is best.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Goldacre Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Goldacre Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Goldacre Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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