Transparency and detail are everything in science.

I agree, the world would be a better place if doctors were less enthusiastic about adopting very new drugs.

Real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else's position.

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

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.

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

The plural of anecdotes is not data