Ben Goldacre

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

— Ben Goldacre

Amazing things happen when you pull individual pieces of information together into larger linked datasets: meaning emerges, as you produce facts from…

— Ben Goldacre

“Aside from all this, for several of the most important and enduring problems in medicine, we have no idea what the best…

— Ben Goldacre

“At school you were taught about chemicals in test tubes, equations to describe motion, and maybe something on photosynthesis—about which more later—but…

— Ben Goldacre

And if, by the end [of this book], you reckon you might still disagree with me, then I offer you this: you'll…

— Ben Goldacre

I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

— Ben Goldacre

“Today, scientists and doctors find themselves outnumbered and outgunned by vast armies of individuals who feel entitled to pass judgment on matters…

— Ben Goldacre

I hope that you will be asked to participate in a trial at some stage in your disease

— Ben Goldacre

Most bloggers have no institutional credibility, and so they must build it, by linking transparently, and allowing you to easily double check…

— Ben Goldacre

“The American Academy of Pediatrics officially supports breastfeeding, but receives about half a million dollars from Ross, manufacturers of Similac infant formula.”

— Ben Goldacre

“More than that, these adverts sell a dubious world view. They sell the idea that science is not about the delicate relationship…

— Ben Goldacre

“At school you were taught about chemicals in test tubes, equations to describe motion, and maybe something on photosynthesis – about which…

— Ben Goldacre

“My basic hypothesis is this: the people who run the media are Humanities graduates with little understanding of science, who wear their…

— Ben Goldacre

“The current regulations -- for companies, doctors and researchers -- create perverse incentives; and we'll have better luck fixing those broken systems…

— Ben Goldacre

Doctors and patients need as much data as possible to make an informed decision about what treatment is best.

— Ben Goldacre

I write about misuses of evidence in plenty of different spheres: scaremongering journalists, obvious quacks and naturopaths, and flaws in the way…

— Ben Goldacre

There is this peculiar blind spot in the culture of academic medicine around whether withholding trial results is research misconduct. People who…

— Ben Goldacre

“What is odd, perhaps, is how the primacy of patient autonomy and informed consent over efficacy—which is what we’re talking about here—was…

— Ben Goldacre

“I’d like to submit to Bad Science my teacher who gave us a handout which says that ‘Water is best absorbed by…

— Ben Goldacre

“Repeat after me: pharma being shit does not mean magic beans cure cancer.”

— Ben Goldacre

If you put me in charge of the medical research budget, I would cancel all primary research, I would cancel all new…

— Ben Goldacre

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

— Ben Goldacre

When you prescribe a new drug, often you are prescribing something that has only been tested in a few thousand people for…

— Ben Goldacre

“Paul Broca, for example, was a famous French craniologist in the nineteenth century whose name is given to Broca’s area, the part…

— Ben Goldacre

“The American Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics is sponsored by Coca-Cola.”

— Ben Goldacre