"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Not Exactly Holmesian Logic: Sherlock Holmes has been given a "posthumous" honorary fellowship from the Royal Society of Chemistry. What would Holmes think? He would scoff, of course. He never suffered foolishness gladly. Surely the offering of a "posthumous" award to an immortal fictional character would have made him sneer. Still, it's a nice gesture in that it recognizes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's contribution to fostering an interest in science through his fiction. posted by Sydney on
10/16/2002 09:05:00 AM
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