"I spend a lot of time talking to……" — Ben Goldacre
"I spend a lot of time talking to people who disagree with me - I would go so far as to say that it's my favourite leisure activity,"
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27 Quotes by Ben Goldacre
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As it is a major component of blood, water is vital for transporting oxygen to the brain. Heaven forbid that…
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If I was writing a lifestyle book it would have the same advice on every page, and you’d know it…
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In the past, [medicalization]has been portrayed as something that doctors inflict on a passive and un-suspecting world - an expansion…
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Transparency and detail are everything in science.
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Positive findings are around twice as likely to be published as negative findings. This is a cancer at the core…
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The placebo effect is one of the most fascinating things in the whole of medicine. It's not just about taking…
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Real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else's position.
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You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.
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Homeopathy pills are, after all, empty little sugar pills which seem to work, and so they embody [..] how we…
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And if, by the end [of this book], you reckon you might still disagree with me, then I offer you…
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You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.
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Children can be disgusting, and often they can develop extraordinary talents, but I’m yet to meet any child who can…
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More Activity Quotes
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one of 1,646 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
— Margaret Atwood
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
— Dave Barry
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
— Alan Bennett
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
— Andrea Bocelli
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward de Bono
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.…
— Jo Brand
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls…
— Bill Bryson
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