You Cannot Reason People Out

Most Bloggers Have No Institutional Credibility, And So They Must Build It, By Linking Transparently, And Allowing You To Easily Double Check Their Work. But More Than Anything, Because Linking Sources Is Such An Easy Thing To Do, And The Motivations For Avoiding Links Are So Dubious, I've Detected Myself Using A New Rule Of Thumb: If You Don't Link To Primary Sources, I Just Don't Trust You.

Doctors And Patients Need As Much Data As Possible To Make An Informed Decision About What Treatment Is Best.

Homeopathy Pills Are, After All, Empty Little Sugar Pills Which Seem To Work, And So They Embody [..] How We Can Be Misled Into Thinking That Any Intervention Is More Effective Than It Really Is.

Real Science Is All About Critically Appraising The Evidence For Somebody Else's Position.

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.