"Bad Science" Quotes
"Bad Science" exposes the truth behind misleading health and science reporting.
science | 338 pages | Published in 2008
Quotes
The whole point of science is that it is different from opinion.
You cannot reason people out of positions that they didn’t reason themselves into.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Science is not a body of facts. Science is a method for deciding whether what we choose to believe has a basis in the laws of nature or not.
You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts.
Medicine is complex and uncertain, and it is always changing.
I think the public should not take it for granted that the scientific establishment is always right.
Science is not about making claims about the truth, or building theories that are correct. It’s about testing ideas and seeing if they survive.
There is no such thing as alternative medicine. There’s medicine that works and medicine that doesn’t work.
Being skeptical means demanding evidence for claims, especially extraordinary claims.





