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Ben Goldacre has 27 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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As it is a major component of blood, water is vital for transporting oxygen to the brain. Heaven forbid that your blood…
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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 all already.…
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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 of the…
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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 of evidence-based…
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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 a pill,…
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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 can be…
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And if, by the end [of this book], you reckon you might still disagree with me, then I offer you this: you'll…
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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 stimulate his…
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The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults.
— Samuel Johnson
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The deepest poverty is the inability of joy, the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory. This poverty is widespread today,…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.
— John Ruskin
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Fellini, Kurosawa, and Bunuel move in the same field as Tarkovsky. Antonioni was on his way, but expired, suffocated by his own…
— Ingmar Bergman
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My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is…
— William Shakespeare
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[S]ince brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.
— William Shakespeare
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Bad things happen when problems are protected by a force field of tediousness.
— Ben Goldacre
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I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness.
— Ira Glass
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