Sysiphus Speaks Mark Crislip

F. Scott Fitzgerald said "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. First, a survey in England about homeopathy found people often held two opposing ideas:

Medicine advances with the tools of science are used to discover an approximation of truth rather than to confirm pre-existing bias.

“This is the first mattress that Weil, the founder and director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, has endorsed.”

Target sells a homeopathic asthma spray for minor asthma symptoms including shortness of breath, wheezing, and tightness in chest.

When there is no physiologic reason for why an intervention would work, I am more inclined to suspect the weakest of p values is noise, all sound and fury signifying nothing.

Hanlon’s razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.