"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
Politicians demand much of science and scientists that they cannot deliver, particularly in the area of certainty. Scientists may sometimes be seduced by the glamour of politics to the extent that they say they can provide that certainty. Science and the public would be better served by scientists keeping a healthy distance from grandstanding politicians. posted by Sydney on
7/20/2004 08:35:00 AM
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