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Science isn't about authority or white coats; it's about following a method. That method is built on core principles: precision and transparency; being clear about your methods; being honest about your results; and drawing a clear line between the results, on the one hand, and your judgment calls about how those results support a hypothesis.

~Ben Goldacre

Topics: About Authority Being Being Honest Between Built Calls Clear Coats Core Drawing Following Hand Honest How Hypothesis Judgment Line Method Methods Precision Principles Results Science Support Those Transparency White Your

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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.

~Ben Goldacre

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The value of a scientific publication goes beyond this simple benefit, of all relevant information appearing, unambiguously, in one place. It's also a way to communicate your ideas to your scientific peers, and invite them to express an informed view.

~Ben Goldacre

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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.

~Ben Goldacre

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In an ideal world, you might imagine that scientific papers were only cited by academics on the basis of their content. This might be true. But lots of other stuff can have an influence.

~Ben Goldacre

Topics: Academics Basis Be True Content Ideal Ideal World Imagine Influence Lots Might Only Other Papers Scientific Stuff True Were World You

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Bad things happen when problems are protected by a force field of tediousness.

~Ben Goldacre

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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

Topics: Amazing Amazing Things Emerges Facts Figures Happen Individual Information Larger Linked Meaning Pieces Produce Pull Things Things Happen Together You

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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.

~Ben Goldacre

Topics: Actually Afford Between Buying Companies Crossover Lot More People Pills Quite Quite A Lot Same Slightly Sophisticated Tactics Tricks Use Versions

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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

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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

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Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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