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

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Source : A Rhetoric of Public Bias: How Doctors Are Mislead About the Drugs They Prescribe, delivered September 2012

Ben Goldacre

#Motivation Quotes #Cancer Quotes #Inspiration Quotes

“Does man Progress? A thousand questions answered yesterday create a thousand questions today.”
“Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of the Bauhaus - the epochally influential German art, architecture, crafts, and design school that was founded in Goethe's sleepy hometown of Weimar in 1919.”

Source : "The Brief, Glorious Life Of Bauhaus (New York Review)" by Martin Fuller, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2010.
“Boredom is the keynote of poverty ... it's dark brown sameness.”
“When I'm answering questions from the Denver media, I'm not worried about what the Broncos' people are going to think. I'm worried about what Belichick will think. Isn't that crazy?”

Source : "Wes Welker On Bill Belichick: ‘One Of Those Deals Where You Have To Endure Him’" by Aaron Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 8, 2013.
“Goodbye, kind year, we walk no more together. But here in quiet happiness we part.”
“He who leads troops has no right to think about himself.”

Source : "Hitler's Generals" by Correlli Barnett, (p. 323), 2003.
“I drifted into photography like one drifts into prostitution. First I did it to please myself, then I did it to please my friends, and eventually I did it for the money.”
“You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.”

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