Teaching needs an ecosystem that supports evidence-based practice. It will need better systems to disseminate the results of … - Ben Goldacre

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

We don't have a lot of men on stage doing flamboyant or theatrical. We have a lot of female pop stars doing it, but where are the guys? Where's the classic pop-rock showman?

Ben Goldacre

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.

Practice, Research, Teacher, Teachers, Teaching

Same Author Quotes

You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.

Argument, People, Position, Reason

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

Cancer, Inspiration, Likely, Medicine, Motivation, Positive

The placebo effect is one of the most fascinating things in the whole of medicine. It's not just about taking a pill, and your performance and your pain getting better. It's about our beliefs and expectations. It's about the cultural meaning of a treatment.

Inspiration, Meaning, Motivation, Pain, Pill, Whole

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.

Different, Interesting, Journalists, Same, Tricks, Writing

Amazing things happen when you pull individual pieces of information together into larger linked datasets: meaning emerges, as you produce facts from figures.

Amazing, Information, Pieces, Things, Together