In the Internet age, with the screaming on the radio, etc., it is hard to know what to believe and who is informed and who is not.

Benjamin Franklin refused to have one of his children vaccinated against smallpox. The four-year-old boy died, and Franklin wrote later of how mistaken he was to expose him to the needless risk.

I think it is true that you can eat extremely healthy food at McDonald's, and you can eat amazingly badly at Chipotle.

Daily vitamins are of no value.

People wrap themselves in their beliefs. And they do it in such a way that you can't set them free. Not even the truth will set them free.

Your dollar cheeseburger isn't a dollar if you factor in what it's going to cost in health care.

I understand the horrors of having no insurance, but, believe me, eight hours of sleep and good meals are NOT going to prevent you from getting sick. Don't gamble with your life; it's a stupid bet.

I started to write about science and medicine at the Washington Post, in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.

I have never earned one penny from any pharmaceutical company. I will never accept one penny from them either. Ever.

It is not possible to assert publicly that Monsanto is anything other than venal without being accused of being a sellout, a fraud, or worse.

There are always potential side effects for every vaccine.

... true evil needs no reason to exist, it simply is and feeds upon itself.

Man is the master of Woman" - this statement may have been a glorious fact of primitive life in the wild, but it is nothing but an obnoxious stain on psyche of the thinking humanity.

Myrnin was heading for Kim when she picked up a crossbow lying on a table nearby and shot him pointblank in the

Disclosure of private e-mails from government officials has been a legal issue in many states.

My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.

I have so many people come up to me, 20-some years later, and saying, "I loved you in Jawbreaker!".

The worst crime is faking it.

My writing arises out of erotic impulse toward an other: it is an act of love. And I want terribly to be loved in return, as a sign that I have loved well enough.

People really do want simpler, cleaner food, but this isn't about marketing, it's about delivering.

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made.