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

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 int….

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

The plural of anecdotes is not data.

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..

Transparency and detail are everything in science..

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 in….

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

There are many differences between medicine and teaching, but they have much in common. Both involve craft and personal expertise, learned through ex….

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

In the past, [medicalization]has been portrayed as something that doctors inflict on a passive and un-suspecting world - an expansion of the Medical ….

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

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

Teaching needs an ecosystem that supports evidence-based practice. It will need better systems to disseminate the results of research more widely, bu….

Doctors and patients need as much data as possible to make an informed decision about what treatment is best..

If you put me in charge of the medical research budget, I would cancel all primary research, I would cancel all new trials, for just one year, and I ….

Most bloggers have no institutional credibility, and so they must build it, by linking transparently, and allowing you to easily double check their w….

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 p….

I write about misuses of evidence in plenty of different spheres: scaremongering journalists, obvious quacks and naturopaths, and flaws in the way th….

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

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..