Bases Quote by Peter Duesberg

“The diagnostic enterprise hinges on an optimistic notion: that disease is part of a natural world that only awaits our understanding. But even if…

— Gary Greenberg

Infectious disease exists at this intersection between real science, medicine, public health, social policy, and human conflict. There's a tendency of people to try…

— Andrea Barrett

The doctor is to be feared more than the disease

— Latin Proverb

The advanced members of the medical profession know that the health of society is not to be obtained or maintained by medicines; - that…

— Robert Owen

Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first principles.

— Aristotle

What hope is there for medical scienceto ever become a true sciencewhen the entire structure of medical knowledgeis built around the idea that there…

— John Henry Tilden

We are a caring nation, and our values should also guide us on how we harness the gifts of science. New medical breakthroughs bring…

— George W. Bush

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

“State sponsored medicine and science can function as ideology, inspiring blind commitment, fanatical defensiveness and denial, particularly of outcomes inconsistent with the preferred explanatory…

— Daniel Waterman

The fundamental activity of medical science is to determine the ultimate causation of disease.

— Wilfred Trotter

In medicine as well as politics, one cannot permit the cure to be worse than the disease.

— Michael J. Knowles

The first task of the doctor is ... political: the struggle against disease must begin with a war against bad government." Man will be…

— Michel Foucault