Doctors and patients need as much data as possible to make an informed decision about what treatment is best.

You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.

Positive findings are around twice as likely to be published as negative findings. This is a cancer at the core of evidence-based medicine.

You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.

Amazing things happen when you pull individual pieces of information together into larger linked datasets: meaning emerges, as you produce facts from figures.

Just just because there are flaws in aircraft design that doesn't mean flying carpets exist.

As it is a major component of blood, water is vital for transporting oxygen to the brain. Heaven forbid that your blood should dry out.

Transparency and detail are everything in science.

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.

The plural of anecdotes is not data

Real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else's position.

I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.

When politicians say "I'm in politics," it may or may not be possible to trust them, but when they say, "I'm in public service," you know you should flee.

Eloquence resides as much in the tone of voice, in the eyes, and in the expression of the face, as in the choice of words.

The fruit of wisdom is Christlikeness, peace, humility and love. And, the root of it is faith in Christ as the manifested wisdom of God

Drag wasn't always counterculture.

Eugenics, which had started long before my time, had once been defined as including free love and prevention of conception... Recently it had cropped up again in the form of selective breeding.

I'm in the collard green 6 cornbread in the guts Got the Halloween kicks trick or treat in the clutch

The bourgeois takes economic power very seriously, and often worships it quite unselfishly.

The communists were mainly responsible for the destruction of the Spanish anarchists. Not just in Catalonia - the communist armies mainly destroyed the collectives elsewhere.

Repentance is a change of behavior which invites forgiveness.