Quotes by : Ben Goldacre

You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.

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

Here we will see that pharmaceutical companies spend tens of billions of pounds every year trying to....

I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

Children can be disgusting, and often they can develop extraordinary talents, but I’m yet to meet any....

Yes. I'm a doctor, an epidemiologist, and lots of my professional colleagues flip back and forth between....

And if, by the end [of this book], you reckon you might still disagree with me, then I offer you this:....

If you put me in charge of the medical research budget, I would cancel all primary research, I would....

Homeopathy pills are, after all, empty little sugar pills which seem to work, and so they embody [..]....

This process of professionalising the obvious fosters a sense of mystery around science, and health advice,....

In females, the author has found the application of pure carbolic acid to the clitoris an excellent means....