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.
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. - Ben Goldacre
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.
- Ben Goldacre
Real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else's position. - Ben Goldacre
Real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else's position.
The plural of anecdotes is not data - Ben Goldacre
The plural of anecdotes is not data
You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted. - Ben Goldacre
You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.
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… - Ben Goldacre
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…
Positive findings are around twice as likely to be published as negative findings. This is a cancer at the core of evidence-based medicine. - Ben Goldacre
Positive findings are around twice as likely to be published as negative findings. This is a cancer at the core of evidence-based medicine.
You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into. - Ben Goldacre
You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.
Doctors and patients need as much data as possible to make an informed decision about what treatment is best. - Ben Goldacre
Doctors and patients need as much data as possible to make an informed decision about what treatment is best.
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… - Ben Goldacre
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…
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