Appeals Quote by Ben Goldacre

“Everything I thought I understood about disease research, drug development, and the delivery of clinical care has been turned on its head. This isn’t…

— Mary Dimmock

The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than…

— Edward Bach

Medicine is not about conquering diseases and death, but about the alleviation of suffering, minimising harm, smoothing the painful journey of man to the…

— Petr Skrabanek

“Sadly, interpretation of medical science is frequently influenced by the dark forces of industry, out to make a killing. And”

— John Yudkin

Medicine is a science which hath been (as we have said) more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced: the labour having…

— Francis Bacon

We have medicalized a lot of things that I think are not really medical conditions.

— Darold Treffert

I tried to change the conventional paradigm, for example, by insisting on the reality of mind-body interaction, by stressing the importance of natural therapies,…

— Andrew Weil

There are some modern practitioners, who declaim against medical theory in general, not considering that to think is to theorize; and that no one…

— Erasmus Darwin

Until the 20th century, medicine was more like politics than physics. Its forecasts were often bogus and its record grim. In the 1920s, statisticians…

— Dominic Cummings

“The problem with medicine and the institutions it has spawned for the care of the sick and the old is not that they have…

— Atul Gawande

“The art of medicine is long, Hippocrates tells us, "and life is short; opportunity fleeting; the experiment perilous; judgment flawed.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It’s very easy to disguise…

— Ronald Reagan