"The placebo effect is one of the most……" — 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."
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27 Quotes by Ben Goldacre
Ben Goldacre has 27 quotes on this site.
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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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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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These corporations run our culture, and they riddle it with bullshit.
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More Belief Quotes
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Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
— Richard Bach
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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief…
— Isaac Asimov
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
— Margaret Atwood
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I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as…
— Margaret Atwood
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No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel…
— Saint Augustine
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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
— Saint Augustine
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
— Marcus Aurelius
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be,…
— Jane Austen
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Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what…
— Richard Bach
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The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the…
— Richard Bach
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