"Jim Al-Khalili talks to pioneering health services researcher Iain Chalmers, one of the founders of the Cochrane Collaboration, which facilitates informed choice about health care." - mkz

Gazze'de gönüllü çalıştığı zaman hakkında: "I learned how easy it is, with the best of intentions, to make mistakes. It is very good that there are people who want to go out to other cultures to try and do good, but one has to be very aware, and very, I think, humble, that it is quite likely that that experience will do more for the volunteer than it will do for the people who the volunteer is trying to help. So that was quite a hard lesson to learn." - mkz

Bir sosyologla (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...) birlikte çalışmaları hakkında: "[We] were concerned that the electronic fetal monitors might actually divert attention away from a woman’s needs while she was laboring; people would be more interested in the machine then they would be in her. And so we were wondering, how do we actually investigate this? So we had started to look at scales for unhappiness and depression and so on, and Ann came along and said, why don’t you just actually ask women, "Are you depressed?" And it was such a simple solution to what had come to us as a real methodological conundrum with all of these scales around." - mkz

Bu olay (hamile kadınlarda acı/rahatsızlık ölçümü) bağlamında, "hard evidence vs. soft evidence" ayrımı ve "soft evidence"a dair önyargılar hakkında: "There were about 12 half-decent controlled trials. Now, in some of them they had calculated the . . . steroid levels to four places of decimals, which people would of course say were hard, but there were only two of these 12 trials [where they had] actually asked women what pain they were experiencing. Now, that is probably a particularly gross example of people believing that if you can calculate something to four places of decimals, it’s hard, and if you [actually] trust women who tell you that they are in intolerable pain or tolerable pain, that that is soft." - mkz

Fenaymış. - mkz