Cytaty z Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks
"‘Torture the data and it will confess to anything,’ as they say at Guantanamo Bay."
Dodał: kamilka257
Dodano: 16 VI 2013 (ponad 11 lat temu)
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"(...) whenever somebody tells you that their trial is going to be positive before they’ve even started it, then you know you’re onto an interesting story."
Dodał: kamilka257
Dodano: 16 VI 2013 (ponad 11 lat temu)
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"It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction…When an honest man speaks, he says only what he believes to be true; and for the liar, it is correspondingly indispensable that he considers his statements to be false. For the bullshitter, however, all these bets are off: he is neither on the side of the true nor on the side of the false. His eye is not on the facts at all, as the eyes of the honest man and of the liar are, except insofar as they may be pertinent to his interest in getting away with what he says. He does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose."
Dodał: kamilka257
Dodano: 16 VI 2013 (ponad 11 lat temu)
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"Forgive me, Dr Thompson, but I felt you didn’t want to say that the pills work, as pills, in isolation, when you buy them in a shop: apart from anything else, you’d already said that they don’t."
Dodał: kamilka257
Dodano: 16 VI 2013 (ponad 11 lat temu)
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"It’s quite natural that when your symptoms are at their very worst, you will do things to try to get better. You might take a homeopathic remedy. You might sacrifice a goat and dangle its entrails around your neck. You might bully your GP into giving you antibiotics. (I’ve listed these in order of increasing ridiculousness.)"
Dodał: kamilka257
Dodano: 16 VI 2013 (ponad 11 lat temu)
