You Cannot Reason People Out

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.

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

If I Was Writing A Lifestyle Book It Would Have The Same Advice On Every Page, And You’d Know It All Already. Eat Lots Of Fruit And Vegetables, And Live Your Whole Life In Every Way As Well As You Can: Exercise Regularly As Part Of Your Daily Routine, Avoid Obesity, Don’t Drink Too Much, Don’t Smoke, And Don’t Get Distracted From The Real, Basic, Simple Causes Of Ill Health. But As We Will See, Even These Things Are Hard To Do On Your Own, And In Reality Require Wholesale Social And Political Changes.

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.

Transparency And Detail Are Everything In Science.