“In general, drug companies are reasonably good at developing new treat...” — Ben Goldacre Quote

“In general, drug companies are reasonably good at developing new treatments, and there's also a lot of good in the industry.”

“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.”

“There is actually quite a lot of crossover between the quacks and drug companies. They use the same tricks and tactics to bamboozle people into buying their pills, but drug firms can afford to use slightly more sophisticated versions.”

“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.”

“You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.”

“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.”

“I think Hollywood has a habit of developing 100 times more than they actually shoot.”

“I dream of a free, democratic, peaceful Tunisia, a country that can protect its developing identity.”

“Google is making a huge investment in developing the Ajax approach.”

“I really enjoy the constant change in TV. It's fun to play a character that is, hopefully, growing and developing over a long period of time.”

“I never thought I was very good at developing material. I grew up at the BBC where they sent you scripts.”

“I want the voice of developing countries to be stronger.”