75 Quotes by Ben Goldacre

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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,

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    Just just because there are flaws in aircraft design that doesn't mean flying carpets exist.

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    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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    I think you’ll find it’s a bit more complicated than that.

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    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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    Real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else’s position.

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    Just just because there are flaws in aircraft design that doesn’t mean flying carpets exist.

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    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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