Real science is all about ...

Real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else\'s position.
Real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else's position.
 Ben Goldacre

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
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 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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Positive findings are around twice as likely to be published as negative findings. This is a cancer at the core of evidence-based medicine.
 Ben Goldacre
The placebo effect is one of the most fascinating things in the whole of medicine. It's not just about taking a pill, and your performance and your pain getting better. It's about our beliefs and expectations. It's about the cultural meaning of a treatment.
 Ben Goldacre
Most bloggers have no institutional credibility, and so they must build it, by linking transparently, and allowing you to easily double check their work. But more than anything, because linking sources is such an easy thing to do, and the motivations for avoiding links are so dubious, I've detected myself using a new rule of thumb: if you don't link to primary sources, I just don't trust you.
 Ben Goldacre
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