User:Postpostmod/quotes

About authority:
 * "... Bernays agreed that "the group mind does not think [emphasis in original] in the strict sense of the word… In making up its mind, its first impulse is usually to follow the example of a trusted leader. This is one of the most firmly established principles in mass psychology." [Emphasis Bender's] To sum up, what Bernays called the "regimentation of the mind" is accomplished by taking advantage of the human tendency to self-deception, gregariousness, individualism and the seductive power of a strong leader."
 * Steven Bender, [| here]

About observation:
 * "You can observe a lot just by watching."
 * Yogi Berra

About generalizations:
 * "All generalizations are false."
 * Bumper sticker seen on Longwood Ave., Boston

About medical devices:
 * "The FDA's approval criteria should be tightened up, because currently the agency requires far less scientific evidence to approve devices than medications. Companies should not be allowed to statistically manipulate their study results after the fact...And most important, we...should resist jumping on the device bandwagon because of our misguided professional need to offer a truly "medical" procedure to patients, even when the procedure hardly works."
 * Unhinged by Daniel Carlat, MD

About the history of Lyme disease:
 * "Masters points out that the "track record" of the "conventional wisdom" regarding Lyme disease is not very good: "First off, they said it was a new disease, which it wasn't. Then it was thought to be viral, but it isn't. Then it was thought that sero-negativity didn't exist, which it does. They thought it was easily treated by short courses of antibiotics, which sometimes it isn't. Then it was only the Ixodes dammini tick, which we now know is not even a separate valid tick species. If you look throughout the history, almost every time a major dogmatic statement has been made about what we 'know' about this disease, it was subsequently proven wrong or underwent major modifications."
 * Bull's-Eye: Unraveling the Medical Mystery of Lyme Disease by Jonathan A. Edlow, MD, p. 191

About Wikipedia policy:
 * "Contribute what you know or are willing to learn more about has the nostalgic feel of older wikis; this page also didn't turn into policy."
 * How Wikipedia Works by Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, and Ben Yates, p. 377

About medical prestige:
 * "To suggest that I acted or was influenced by money is really offensive to me. I don't think about how my doing this work is going to make me rich. It's about leadership and notoriety and accomplishment. Publishing in first-rate journals. That's what turns us on. You've got to be on the cutting edge and take risks if you're going to stay on top."
 * James Wilson, MD. Quoted in On the Take, by Jerome Kassirer, MD, p. 159. Originally in the Washington Post, Nov. 21 1999, p. A1

About food:
 * "I am as casually creeped out by the clinical mechanization of the global food industry as any other middle-class dad who is grateful to be able to pay 120 percent more for grass-fed, hormone-free milk if it means keeping tits off my daughter until she reaches puberty."
 * Manny Howard, in My Empire of Dirt

About IMS:
 * "On the surface, IMS can be seen as a syndrome characterized by others' suffering. One of the primary symptoms of the Irritable Male Syndrome is that a man doesn't think he has a problem. It seems obvious to him that the problem is caused by someone else and that things would improve if only that other person would change."
 * The Irritable Male Syndrome: Managing the Four Key causes of Depression and Aggression by Jed Diamond

About serious illness:
 * "It's a tremendous effort to do things that aren't related to R.'s Illness. I feel upset if that's all people want to talk about, and then upset if they don't talk about it, as if they had no right to go on with their lives while this horror was happening to us."
 * My Year Off by Robert McCrum

About waiting for change:
 * "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."
 * Andy Warhol

About ducks: The young of the American golden eye and the white winged scoter were harder to start than the others. Sometimes also young lesser scaups were a little backward. I found it a good plan to put in with them one or two small ducklings of other kinds which were tame and had learned well how to eat. These were not enough to awe the timid ones or monopolize the food but usually they soon taught the others proper table manners which for a duck consist in being as greedy as possible. Propagation of wild birds: a manual of applied ornithology, Herbert K. Job, 1915

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