"You are a placebo responder. Your body plays……" — Ben Goldacre

"You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted."

— Ben Goldacre

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27 Quotes by Ben Goldacre

Ben Goldacre has 27 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

As it is a major component of blood, water is vital for transporting oxygen to the brain. Heaven forbid that…
If I was writing a lifestyle book it would have the same advice on every page, and you’d know it…
In the past, [medicalization]has been portrayed as something that doctors inflict on a passive and un-suspecting world - an expansion…
Transparency and detail are everything in science.
Positive findings are around twice as likely to be published as negative findings. This is a cancer at the core…
The placebo effect is one of the most fascinating things in the whole of medicine. It's not just about taking…
Real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else's position.
You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.
Homeopathy pills are, after all, empty little sugar pills which seem to work, and so they embody [..] how we…
And if, by the end [of this book], you reckon you might still disagree with me, then I offer you…
Children can be disgusting, and often they can develop extraordinary talents, but I’m yet to meet any child who can…
These corporations run our culture, and they riddle it with bullshit.

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More Body Quotes

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

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