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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.

Ben Goldacre

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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Children Talent
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
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
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
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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Activities Leisure People Talking
You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.
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Body Mind Play
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
You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.
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Argument People Reason
I think you’ll find it’s a bit more complicated than that.
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Bits Complicated Thinking
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
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
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
I think you’ll find it’s a bit more complicated than that.
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Bits Complicated Thinking
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

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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