Drop out of the public schools. The public schools cannot be compromised with.
Transparency and detail are everything in science.
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.
The placebo effect is one of the most fascinating things in the whole of medicine. It's not just about taking a pill, and your performance and your pain getting better. It's about our beliefs and expectations. It's about the cultural meaning of a treatment.
I write about misuses of evidence in plenty of different spheres: scaremongering journalists, obvious quacks and naturopaths, and flaws in the way that evidence is used in mainstream academia, medicine and in (government) policy. One of the things I always found interesting is the same tricks are used to distort medicine in all of those domains.
Amazing things happen when you pull individual pieces of information together into larger linked datasets: meaning emerges, as you produce facts from figures.
Pretend long enough that you belong, and eventually even you will believe it. " - Gallen
More important than the material issue. . . the opening of a new, high frontier will challenge the best that is in us. . . the new lands waiting to be built in space will give us new freedom to search for better governments, social systems, and ways of life.
Only those who are being burned know what fire is like.
Undertake not to teach your equal in the art himself professes; it savors arrogancy.