Claims Quote by Steven Novella Download Open image “Some claims deserve ridicule, and anything less falsely elevates them.” — Steven Novella ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Claims Deserve Ridicule
“Backing up your argument with unnamed sources, rumored facts and hearsay only backs your view and your professional reputation into a corner. Argue the… — Loren Weisman Copy Share Image
As a lawyer who has dealt in defamation, I know that someone's reputation has to be lowered in the eyes of right-thinking people to… — David Hunt Copy Share Image
“Society will question your reputation, but it will believe your defamation without question.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule. — Al Franken Copy Share Image
One thing appears reasonably certain, and that's that those who make allegations of a culture of deception, of intimidation or cover-up need to be… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
Any unfair and scandalous allegations made by disgruntled litigants will be ignored and recognised for what they are by the public, and can be… — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
There is no skepticism without science and the scientific method. It's about how we know what we know. — Steven Novella Copy Share Image
“Questioning our own motives, and our own process, is critical to a skeptical and scientific outlook. We must realize that the default mode of… — Steven Novella Copy Share Image
The work of a science blogger is largely comprised of correcting and criticizing bad science news reporting. — Steven Novella Copy Share Image
History is strewn with ideas that were intuitive and made sense at the time, but were also hopelessly wrong. — Steven Novella Copy Share Image
“What do you think science is? There's nothing magical about science. It is simply a systematic way for carefully and thoroughly observing nature and… — Steven Novella Copy Share Image
Creationists argue that natural selection is only a negative process, and therefore cannot create anything. Chopra argues that skepticism is only a negative process,… — Steven Novella Copy Share Image
One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard… — Matthew Lesko Copy Share Image
Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
We do not claim that punning is legitimate wit. Wit consists in combination of ideas, punning in combination of words only. We wonder at… — Harriet Hosmer Copy Share Image
It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Atheist’s denial of God’s existence needs just as much substantiation as does the theist’s claim; the atheist must give plausible reasons for rejecting God’s… — Paul Copan Copy Share Image
In luggage claim at the Minneapolis airport, the guy came up to me and said, "Maybe you're wrong, maybe stories do matter." I wrote… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth. — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
Those who do not know what love is likens it to beauty Those who claim to know what love is likens it to ugliness… — Tite Kubo Copy Share Image
Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
