Medicine Quote by Gabrielle Palmer

“No one would ever suggest that a report whose audience consists of medical doctors should avoid medical terminology that could not be understood by…

— Charles M. Fox

“More than that, these adverts sell a dubious world view. They sell the idea that science is not about the delicate relationship between evidence…

— Ben Goldacre

“Doctors, however, are just as vulnerable to marketing tactics as the rest of us; companies merely use different methods to seduce them.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Medicine is not a science; it is empiricism founded on a network of blunders.”

— Emmet Densmore

“If you are confronted with the old advertisements interspersed throughout the medical text, you realise that the medical profession shamefully endorsed products that did…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Pseudoscience is embraced, it might be argued, in exact proportion as real science is misunderstood.”

— Carl Sagan

I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science…

— Carl Sagan

“I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself to be…

— G.K. Chesterton

"Science" is pedantic, arrogant, esoteric and often insane.

— Herbert M. Shelton

“Pseudoscience is embraced, it might be argued, in exact proportion as real science is misunderstood—except”

— Carl Sagan

“This process of professionalising the obvious fosters a sense of mystery around science, and health advice, which is unnecessary and destructive. More than anything,…

— Ben Goldacre

The real name for 'science' is magic.

— Harlan Ellison