Data Is The Fabric Of The Modern

Yes. I'm A Doctor, An Epidemiologist, And Lots Of My Professional Colleagues Flip Back And Forth Between Industry And Medical Roles. I Know Them; They Are Not Bad People. But It Is Possible For Good People In Bad Systems To Do Things That Inflict Enormous Harm.

Just Just Because There Are Flaws In Aircraft Design That Doesn't Mean Flying Carpets Exist.

Homeopathy Pills Are, After All, Empty Little Sugar Pills Which Seem To Work, And So They Embody [..] How We Can Be Misled Into Thinking That Any Intervention Is More Effective Than It Really Is.

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.

You Cannot Reason People Out Of A Position That They Did Not Reason Themselves Into.