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You Are A Placebo Responder. Your Body Plays Tricks On Your Mind. You Cannot Be Trusted.

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.

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.

There Is This Peculiar Blind Spot In The Culture Of Academic Medicine Around Whether Withholding Trial Results Is Research Misconduct. People Who Work In Any Industry Can Reinforce Each Others' Ideas About What Is Okay.

I Think You'll Find It's A Bit More Complicated Than That.