Away Quote by Chris Toumazou

I hate cosmetics companies. They get you addicted to the perfect lipstick or nail polish and then, six months later, they discontinue it. You…

— Lisa Kudrow

Did you have trouble at the airport this week? I had to throw away all my make-up. They said it's because of this terrorist…

— Jimmy Kimmel

Yet again, unscientific claims were being circulated broadly, but the scientists' refutation of them was published where only fellow scientists would see it.

— Naomi Oreskes

“Subliminal cuing and unconscious priming influence numerous behaviors unrelated to this book. People think potato chips taste better when hearing crunching sounds. We like…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“When it comes to dead bodies in current psychotropic trials, there are a greater number of them in the active treatment groups than in…

— Robert Whitaker

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

— Michael Specter

In all technai or arts (medicine perhaps most of all), there is a self-exhilaration on the part of the practitioner (the intoxication of the…

— Kenny Smith

You have to believe in a placebo or it won't work, but if it works, it's obviously working in some indirect way, through feedback…

— Charles Jencks

Many traffic signs have become like placebos, giving false comfort to the afflicted, or simple boilerplate to ward off lawsuits, the roadway version of…

— Tom Vanderbilt

Either it is true that a medicine works or it isn't. It cannot be false in the ordinary sense but true in some alternative…

— Richard Dawkins

“This book is also not about denial. None of the methods you’ll read about here involve denying whatever health condition you may presently have.…

— Joe Dispenza

I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action--no matter what the action is--might help you feel better.

— Anonymous