Ben Goldacre Quotes About Evidence

Quotes about: Evidence

• Positive findings are around twice as likely to be published as negative findings. This is a cancer at the core of evidence-based medicine.

  Ben Goldacre

  Motivation, Cancer, Inspiration

  A Rhetoric of Public Bias: How Doctors Are Mislead About the Drugs They Prescribe, delivered September 2012

• Real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else's position.

  Ben Goldacre

  Motivation, Real, Inspiration

• Science has authority not because of white coats or titles, but because of precision and transparency: you explain your theory, set out your evidence, and reference the studies that support your case.

  Ben Goldacre

  White, Support, Coats

  Ben Goldacre (2014). “I Think You’ll Find It’s a Bit More Complicated Than That”, p.22, HarperCollins UK

• I write about misuses of evidence in plenty of different spheres: scaremongering journalists, obvious quacks and naturopaths, and flaws in the way that evidence is used in mainstream academia, medicine and in (government) policy. One of the things I always found interesting is the same tricks are used to distort medicine in all of those domains.

  Ben Goldacre

  Writing, Interesting, Different

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• If you put me in charge of the medical research budget, I would cancel all primary research, I would cancel all new trials, for just one year, and I would spend the money exclusively on making sure that we make the best possible use of the clinical evidence that we already have.

  Ben Goldacre

  Years, Use, Trials

  "Ben Goldacre: 'It's appalling ... like phone hacking or MPs' expenses'". Interview with Ian Tucker, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2012.

• Teaching needs an ecosystem that supports evidence-based practice. It will need better systems to disseminate the results of research more widely, but also a better understanding of research, so that teachers can be critical consumers of evidence.

  Ben Goldacre

  Teacher, Teaching, Practice

  "Teachers need to drive the research agenda" by Ben Goldacre, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2013.

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