Ben Goldacre Quotes - Page 2

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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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• 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 live your whole life in every way as well as you can: exercise regularly as part of your daily routine, avoid obesity, don’t drink too much, don’t smoke, and don’t get distracted from the real, basic, simple causes of ill health. But as we will see, even these things are hard to do on your own, and in reality require wholesale social and political changes.

  Ben Goldacre

  Real, Book, Writing

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• In the past, [medicalization]has been portrayed as something that doctors inflict on a passive and un-suspecting world - an expansion of the Medical Empire. But in reality, it seems that these reductionist bio-medical stories can appeal to us all, because complex problems often have depressingly-complex causes, and the solutions can be taxing, and unsatisfactory.

  Ben Goldacre

  Past, Reality, Doctors

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• 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, Pavement, Fabric

  "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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• 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.

  Ben Goldacre

  Children, Talent, Arteries

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

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

  Ben Goldacre

  Thinking, Complicated, Bits

  "I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that". Book by Ben Goldacre, October, 2014.

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