You Are A Placebo Responder. Your Body

Doctors And Patients Need As Much Data As Possible To Make An Informed Decision About What Treatment Is Best.

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.

Real Science Is All About Critically Appraising The Evidence For Somebody Else's Position.

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

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.