Health
There once was a time when all food was organic and no pesticides were used. Health problems were treated with folk wisdom and natural remedies. There was no obesity, and people got lots of exercise. And in that time gone by, the average lifespan was … 35!
Amy Tuteur, MD
If alternative medicine worked, it would be able to get rid of the name alternative and just call itself medicine.
Rogue Medic
Do you know what they call alternative medicine that works?
Medicine
Purveyors of unscientific medicine don't have the goods. If they had the goods, then their nostrums wouldn't be called "alternative" medicine anymore; they'd just be medicine.
Orac
Some people make the analogy that the brain is like a computer
Mine might be more like jello with little tiny wook-a-lars and elves slogging through the goo, plugging wires in and willy-nilly, unplugging them. Certainly they have made a mess of the wooden file cabinets that store my memories and have tossed the files askance without regard to alphabetization or any semblance of order.
Marna Scarry-Larkin
There are no such things as "side effects"; only "effects", some of which we desire, some of which we do not, so risk can only be minimized, never eliminated.
David Gorski
The most important take-home message with diet and health is that anyone who ever expresses anything with certainty is basically wrong, because the evidence for cause and effect in this area is almost always weak and circumstantial…
Ben Goldacre
I’ve heard you can get eyeball cancer from watching bad television.
PZ Myers
Everything we do before a pandemic will seem alarmist. Everything we do after a pandemic will seem inadequate.
Michael Levitt—former Secretary of Health and Human Services
It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
Jules Renard
