Different Quote by Ben Goldacre

“Science thrives on errors, cutting them away one by one. False conclusions are drawn all the time, but they are drawn tentatively. Hypotheses are…

— Carl Sagan

[There] are cases where there is no dishonesty involved but where people are tricked into false results by a lack of understanding about what…

— Irving Langmuir

Casual reliance on unnamed sources...corrodes our credibility and, in cases that are rare but not rare enough, may abet journalistic malpractice.

— Bill Keller

Dissections daily convince us of our ignorance of the seats of diseases, and cause us to blush at our prescriptions. How often are we…

— Benjamin Rush

“For, medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid…

— Marcel Proust

“For, medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid,…

— Marcel Proust

One of the greatest sources of problems in our society arises from people having loads of wrong theories in their heads - often theories…

— Ray Dalio

But medicine has long had all its means to hand, and has discovered both a principle and a method, through which the discoveries made…

— Hippocrates

To an extent that undermines classical standards of science, some purported scientific results concerning 'HIV' and 'AIDS' have been handled by press releases, by…

— Serge Lang

“Lies propagate, that's what I'm saying. You've got to tell more lies to cover them up, lie about every fact that's connected to the…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

..The truly fraudulent claims must be discarded. But novel methods of therapy should not be rejected because they are novel, or because they run…

— Linus Pauling

Now, if doctors were aware that medicine was not a science and that they were pulling what is undoubtedly the largest and most successful…

— Vernon Coleman