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“Under Tunisian law, a woman can divorce her husband. Total equality.”

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Rashid al-Ghannushi is a distinguished Tunisian politician, born on June 22, 1941. He is recognized for his pivotal role in the Tunisian revolution and his significant contributions to the political sphere of Tunisia. more

“It is time for the scientific community to stop giving alternative medicine a free ride There cannot be two kinds of medicine — conventional and alternative. There is only medicine that has been adequately tested and medicine that has not, medicine that works and medicine that may or may not work. Once a treatment has been tested rigorously, it no longer matters whether it was considered alternative at the outset. If it is found to be reasonably safe and effective, it will be accepted.”

Ifs Giving Kind May Has Beens Two Matter Found Community Safe Medicine Accepted Alternatives Treatment Conventional Tested Alternative Medicine

Author:Marcia Angell

“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.”

People Ideas Culture Results Industry Research Okay Blind Medicine Trials Spots Peculiar Academic Withholding Blind Spots Misconduct

Author:Ben Goldacre

“If you put me in charge of the medical research budget, I would cancel all primary research, I would cancel all new trials, for just one year, and I would spend the money exclusively on making sure that we make the best possible use of the clinical evidence that we already have.”

Ifs Years Use Research Evidence Medical Trials Primaries Budgets Just One Clinicals Medical Research

Author:Ben Goldacre

“Yes. I'm a doctor, an epidemiologist, and lots of my professional colleagues flip back and forth between industry and medical roles. I know them; they are not bad people. But it is possible for good people in bad systems to do things that inflict enormous harm.”

People Knows Roles Industry Doctors Harm Medical Enormous Good People Colleagues Back And Forth Flip Bad People

Author:Ben Goldacre

“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.”

Needs Understanding Results Practice Support Teacher Teaching Research Evidence Critical Consumers Ecosystems

Author:Ben Goldacre

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