Transparency And Detail Are Everything In Science.

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.

Children Can Be Disgusting, And Often They Can Develop Extraordinary Talents, But I’m Yet To Meet Any Child Who Can Stimulate His Carotid Arteries Inside His Ribcage.

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.

Data Is The Fabric Of The Modern World: Just Like We Walk Down Pavements, So We Trace Routes Through Data, And Build Knowledge And Products Out Of It.

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.