The Plural Of Anecdotes Is Not Data

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.

Children Can Be Disgusting, And Often They Can Develop Extraordinary Talents, But I’m Yet To Meet Any Child Who Can Stimulate His Carotid Arteries Inside His Ribcage.

Amazing Things Happen When You Pull Individual Pieces Of Information Together Into Larger Linked Datasets: Meaning Emerges, As You Produce Facts From Figures.

If I Was Writing A Lifestyle Book It Would Have The Same Advice On Every Page, And You’d Know It All Already. Eat Lots Of Fruit And Vegetables, And Live Your Whole Life In Every Way As Well As You Can: Exercise Regularly As Part Of Your Daily Routine, Avoid Obesity, Don’t Drink Too Much, Don’t Smoke, And Don’t Get Distracted From The Real, Basic, Simple Causes Of Ill Health. But As We Will See, Even These Things Are Hard To Do On Your Own, And In Reality Require Wholesale Social And Political Changes.

The Plural Of Anecdotes Is Not Data