You Cannot Reason People Out

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.

Positive Findings Are Around Twice As Likely To Be Published As Negative Findings. This Is A Cancer At The Core Of Evidence-based Medicine.

I Write About Misuses Of Evidence In Plenty Of Different Spheres: Scaremongering Journalists, Obvious Quacks And Naturopaths, And Flaws In The Way That Evidence Is Used In Mainstream Academia, Medicine And In (government) Policy. One Of The Things I Always Found Interesting Is The Same Tricks Are Used To Distort Medicine In All Of Those Domains.

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.

I Hope That You Will Be Asked To Participate In A Trial At Some Stage In Your Disease