I Think You'll Find It's A Bit

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

I Hope That You Will Be Asked To Participate In A Trial At Some Stage In Your Disease

In The Past, [medicalization]has Been Portrayed As Something That Doctors Inflict On A Passive And Un-suspecting World - An Expansion Of The Medical Empire. But In Reality, It Seems That These Reductionist Bio-medical Stories Can Appeal To Us All, Because Complex Problems Often Have Depressingly-complex Causes, And The Solutions Can Be Taxing, And Unsatisfactory.

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.

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.