There is a major problem with reliance on placebos, like most vitamins and antioxidants. Everyone gets upset about Big Science, Big Pharma, but they love Big Placebo.

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.

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.

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.

The divinity within is an endless strength.

If terrorists are already on our southern border, a national-security failure has already occurred.

Show me a man of average ability but extraordinary desire and I'll show you a winner every time.

I recently had the opportunity to vote to give the president limited authority to begin strikes against terrorists in Iraq and Syria.

In magic, today as always, the effect is what counts. The method or methods used are always purely secondary.

Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.

It is the mind that speaks a woman's heart, not the vaginal walls.

With TV, the most important thing is just to get people to turn it on.

American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.

The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.