Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future.
I agree, the world would be a better place if doctors were less enthusiastic about adopting very new drugs.
You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.
Positive findings are around twice as likely to be published as negative findings. This is a cancer at the core of evidence-based medicine.
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.
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.
Amazing things happen when you pull individual pieces of information together into larger linked datasets: meaning emerges, as you produce facts from figures.
1% of the population has all the money and the other 99% have nothing.
It's interesting because I laugh and tell people when I give speeches, ' I know what y'all think, oh we love Ed, but he's kinda stuck up or he's kinda this or he's kinda that. '
God's hand never slips.
Yet, our achievements also mask many continuing failings and seem to expose more future dangers.