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

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Ben Goldacre

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

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

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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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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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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.

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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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I’m not going anywhere. ” Gently, he stroked her back, cradled her head. Was there anything more astounding or more frightening to a man, he wondered, than a strong woman in tears? “I’ve been right here all along. I love you, Eve, almost more than I can stand. ” “I need you. I can’t help it. I don’t want to. ” “I know. ” He eased back, tucking a hand under her chin to lift her face to his. “We’re going to have to deal with it. ” He kissed one wet cheek, then the other. “I really can’t do without you.

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