Ben Goldacre Quotes

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

  Ben Goldacre

  People, Argument, Reason

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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.

  Ben Goldacre

  Motivación, Cáncer, Inspiración

  A Rhetoric of Public Bias: How Doctors Are Mislead About the Drugs They Prescribe, delivered September 2012

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• El plural de las anécdotas no son los datos

  Ben Goldacre

  Data, Anecdotes

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• El efecto placebo es una de las cosas más fascinantes de toda la medicina. No se trata sólo de tomar una pastilla y que tu rendimiento y tu dolor mejoren. Tiene que ver con nuestras creencias y expectativas. Se trata del significado cultural de un tratamiento.

  Ben Goldacre

  Pain, Motivation, Inspiration

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

  Ben Goldacre

  Pain, Mean, Design

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• Eres un respondedor al placebo. Tu cuerpo juega malas pasadas a tu mente. No se puede confiar en ti.

  Ben Goldacre

  Play, Mind, Body

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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.

  Ben Goldacre

  Together, Facts, Pieces

  "There's a wealth of data out there - why not let us use it?" by Ben Goldacre, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2011.

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• 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 would spend the money exclusively on making sure that we make the best possible use of the clinical evidence that we already have.

  Ben Goldacre

  Years, Use, Trials

  "Ben Goldacre: 'It's appalling ... like phone hacking or MPs' expenses'". Interview with Ian Tucker, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2012.

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

  Ben Goldacre

  Doctors, Data, Decision

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

  Ben Goldacre

  Motivación, Real, Inspiración

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• Science has authority not because of white coats or titles, but because of precision and transparency: you explain your theory, set out your evidence, and reference the studies that support your case.

  Ben Goldacre

  White, Support, Coats

  Ben Goldacre (2014). “I Think You’ll Find It’s a Bit More Complicated Than That”, p.22, HarperCollins UK

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• Teaching needs an ecosystem that supports evidence-based practice. It will need better systems to disseminate the results of research more widely, but also a better understanding of research, so that teachers can be critical consumers of evidence.

  Ben Goldacre

  Profesor, Enseñanza, Práctica

  "Teachers need to drive the research agenda" by Ben Goldacre, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2013.

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• La mayoría de los blogueros carecen de credibilidad institucional, por lo que deben construirla mediante enlaces transparentes que permitan comprobar fácilmente su trabajo. Pero sobre todo, como es tan fácil enlazar fuentes y las motivaciones para evitar los enlaces son tan dudosas, me he dado cuenta de que utilizo una nueva regla: si no enlazas fuentes primarias, no me fío de ti.

  Ben Goldacre

  Pain, Motivation, Dubious

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

  Ben Goldacre

  Doctors, Drug, Would Be

  "Ben Goldacre: 'It's appalling ... like phone hacking or MPs' expenses'". Interview With Ian Tucker, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2012.

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• 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.

  Ben Goldacre

  Oxygen, Blood, Water

  Ben Goldacre (2008). “Bad Science”, p.16, HarperCollins UK

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• Transparency and detail are everything in science.

  Ben Goldacre

  Details, Transparency

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• There are many differences between medicine and teaching, but they have much in common. Both involve craft and personal expertise, learned through experience; but both can be informed by the experience of others.

  Ben Goldacre

  Teaching, Medicine, Differences

  "Teachers need to drive the research agenda" by Ben Goldacre, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2013.

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• Paso mucho tiempo hablando con gente que no está de acuerdo conmigo; me atrevería a decir que es mi actividad de ocio favorita.

  Ben Goldacre

  Leisure Activities, Talking, People

  Ben Goldacre (2008). “Bad Science”, p.8, HarperCollins UK

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• I'd like to submit to Bad Science my teacher who gave us a handout which says that 'Water is best absorbed by the body when provided in frequent small amounts.' What I want to know is this. If I drink too much in one go, will it leak out off my arsehole instead? Thank you. Anton.

  Ben Goldacre

  Teacher, Water, Arseholes

  Ben Goldacre (2008). “Bad Science”, p.21, HarperCollins UK

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• 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; they are not bad people. But it is possible for good people in bad systems to do things that inflict enormous harm.

  Ben Goldacre

  Doctors, People, Roles

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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.

  Ben Goldacre

  Writing, Interesting, Different

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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

  Ben Goldacre

  Trials, Disease, Stage

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• Y si, al final [de este libro], crees que todavía no estás de acuerdo conmigo, te ofrezco esto: seguirás estando equivocado, pero lo estarás con mucho más garbo y estilo del que podrías tener ahora mismo.

  Ben Goldacre

  Book, Might, Ends

  Ben Goldacre (2008). “Bad Science”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

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• 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 intervention is more effective than it really is.

  Ben Goldacre

  Thinking, Pills, Littles

  Ben Goldacre (2008). “Bad Science”, p.6, HarperCollins UK

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• There is this peculiar blind spot in the culture of academic medicine around whether withholding trial results is research misconduct. People who work in any industry can reinforce each others' ideas about what is okay.

  Ben Goldacre

  Ideas, Blind Spots, Medicine

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