“You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.”
“You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.”
Ben Goldacre
“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“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“I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.”
Ben Goldacre“You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.”
Ben Goldacre, Bad Science“You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.”
Ben Goldacre, Bad Science“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 with a lot more panache and flair than you could possibly manage right now.”
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