User talk:Ettu

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"Edits" is now an outdated description for this IP address, as everything is done under Ettu 05:00, 21 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I see you have chosen a good quote for your user page. Here it is with the author and a number of related quotes:

"All truth goes through three stages: first it is ridiculed, then it is violently opposed: Finally it is accepted as self evident." - Schopenhauer

"Effective lies go through four stages: first they are believed by the masses, then they are questioned by the experts, finally they are exposed as falsehoods, and then fools who reject expert opinions cling to them forever." - Fyslee

"A truth's initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn't the world being round that agitated people, but that the world wasn't flat. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic." - Dresden James

"The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a man only tells them with all his might." - Mark Twain

"The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proven to have their counterparts in the world of fact." - John Tyndall (1820-1893), physicist

"It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence." - William Kingdon Clifford

"A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree of certainty which the evidence warrants, would, if it became general, cure most of the ills from which this world is suffering." - Bertrand Russell

"The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth." - Robert G. Ingersoll

"Anecdotes are useless precisely because they may point to idiosyncratic responses."

"The last treatment before "cure" by natural causes (perhaps running it's course.) should not be considered cause and effect."

"Not knowing everything is not evidence that, in the absence of knowledge, any available appealing explanation is true. Sometimes the truth is unappealing." - Steve Zeitzew, MD

"There cannot be two kinds of medicine - conventional and alternative. There is only medicine that has been adequately tested and medicine that has not, medicine that works and medicine that may or may not work. Once a treatment has been tested rigorously, it no longer matters whether it was considered alternative at the outset. If it is found to be reasonably safe and effective, it will be accepted." - Angell M, Kassirer JP, "Alternative medicine--the risks of untested and unregulated remedies." N Engl J Med 1998;339:839.

"There is no alternative medicine. There is only scientifically proven, evidence-based medicine supported by solid data or unproven medicine, for which scientific evidence is lacking. Whether a therapeutic practice is 'Eastern' or 'Western,' is unconventional or mainstream, or involves mind-body techniques or molecular genetics is largely irrelevant except for historical purposes and cultural interest. As believers in science and evidence, we must focus on fundamental issues-namely, the patient, the target disease or condition, the proposed or practiced treatment, and the need for convincing data on safety and therapeutic efficacy." - Fontanarosa P.B., and Lundberg G.D. "Alternative medicine meets science" JAMA. 1998; 280: 1618-1619.