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Ben Michael Goldacre MBE (born 20 May 1974) is a British physician, academic and science writer. As of March 2015, he is a Senior Clinical Research Fellow at the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, part of the University of Oxford's Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences. He is a founder of the AllTrials campaign and OpenTrials to require open science practices in clinical trials.

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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.

Teaching, Medicine, Differences, Involve, Common

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. One of the things I always found interesting is the same tricks are used to distort medicine in all of those domains.

Different, Interesting, Journalists, Same, Tricks, Writing

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

Adopting, Doctors, Drug, Drugs, World, Would Be

Transparency and detail are everything in science.

Detail, Details, Everything, Science, Transparency

I hope that you will be asked to participate in a trial at some stage in your disease

Trials, Disease, Stage, Asked, Trial

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

Design, Flaws, Flying, Mean, Pain

You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.

Argument, People, Position, Reason

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.

Build, Data, Fabric, Products, World

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

Thinking, Complicated, Bits, Think

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.

Arteries, Child, Children, Meet, Ribcage, Talent

Homeopathy pills are, after all, empty little sugar pills which seem to work, and so they embody [. . ] how we can be misled into thinking that any intervention is more effective than it really is.

Embody, Littles, Misled, Pills, Sugar, Thinking

Positive findings are around twice as likely to be published as negative findings. This is a cancer at the core of evidence-based medicine.

Cancer, Inspiration, Likely, Medicine, Motivation, Positive

These corporations run our culture, and they riddle it with bullshit.

Bullshit, Corporations, Culture, Riddle, Run, Running

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.

Inspiration, Meaning, Motivation, Pain, Pill, Whole

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.

Evidence, Science, Support, Titles, White

Amazing things happen when you pull individual pieces of information together into larger linked datasets: meaning emerges, as you produce facts from figures.

Amazing, Information, Pieces, Things, Together

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.

Blood, Component, Heaven, Oxygen, Water

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.

Practice, Research, Teacher, Teachers, Teaching

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.

Academic, Blind, Blind Spots, Ideas, Medicine, Okay

I'd like to submit to Bad Science my teacher who gave us a handout which says that 'Water is best absorbed by the body when provided in frequent small amounts. ' What I want to know is this. If I drink too much in one go, will it leak out off my arsehole instead? Thank you. Anton.

Arseholes, Handout, Know, Teacher, Thank, Water

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