You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.
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“You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.”
— Ben Goldacre · Science
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“You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.”
“More academics should blog, post videos, post audio, post lectures, offer articles and more. You'll enjoy it: I've had threats and blackmail, abuse, smears and formal complaints with forged documentation.”
“If a scientist sidesteps their scientific peers, and chooses to take an apparently changeable, frightening and technical scientific case directly to the public, then that is a deliberate decision, and one that can't realistically go unnoticed.”
“Doctors and patients need as much data as possible to make an informed decision about what treatment is best.”
“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.”
“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.”
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“I fully recognize that all certainty and truth in science depend only on a knowledge of the true God, so much so that, before I knew Him, I could have no perfect knowledge of anything else. But now I am able to understand innumerable things completely and clearly, about both God Himself and other intellectual matters, as well as about all those things in corporeal nature that are objects of study in pure mathematics.”
“I love hands-on science and teaching the kids. I love to see kids experiment with things that they can make happen. Not just something you read the directions to and put it together that way. Things that can be constructed, something they can touch. What a great day when you can touch a child's mind with these ideas.”
“Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.”
“Cup is just crockery, till there is coffee. Head is just a skull, till there is mind.”
“never forget that it is not a pneumonia, but pneumonic man who is your patient”