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; the….

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

If I was writing a lifestyle book it would have the same advice on every page, and you’d know it all already. Eat lots of fruit and vegetables, and l….

You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted..

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

And if, by the end [of this book], you reckon you might still disagree with me, then I offer you this: you'll still be wrong, but you'll be wrong wit….

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 ….

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

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

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..

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

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

Transparency and detail are everything in science..

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

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

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.

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….

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

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

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