“Problems in medicine do not mean that homeopathic sugar pills work; just because there are problems with aircraft design, that doesn’t mean that magic carpets really fly.” ― Ben Goldacre, Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
“EDIBLE, adj. Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.” ― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary
I was having lunch in the synagogue social hall after services and sat down with a woman and her son, who is doing graduate work in biochemistry. I noticed that the woman had taken food only from the gluten-free table. “Are you a celiac?” I asked. “No,” her son answered for her, “She’s a crackpot.” … More Trump’s Post-Fact America
“One thing that has been interesting this entire campaign season to watch is that people that say facts are facts; they’re not really facts…it’s kind of like looking at ratings or looking at a glass of half-full water. Everybody has a way of interpreting them to be the truth or not true. There’s no such … More Two Quotes of the Day
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” ― George Carlin
“’There are no atheists in foxholes’ isn’t an argument against atheism; it’s an argument against foxholes.” – James Morrow
“Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud. His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University. He’s playing the members of the American public for suckers. He gets a free ride to the White House, and all we get is a lousy hat.” –Mitt Romney That was Mitt Romney when he was convinced … More Mitt Romney, Man of Deep Faith and Solid Principles
“It doesn’t seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle … More Quote of the Day
“Guidance is the richness of freedom, and of us. We exist as ultrasonic energy. You and I are adventurers of the quantum matrix.”–New Age Bullshit Generator
“Taking advantage of magical thinking makes me millions of dollars.”–Deepak Chopra* *Okay, in a sudden burst of honesty, he might have said it.
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