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“I get excited when fantasy football season's coming. This guy gets excited when war season's coming.”

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Paul Rieckhoff, born in 1975, is an American writer known for his profound insights into the Iraq War and the issues faced by veterans. His work focuses on the impact of war on individuals and society, as well as the challenges veterans face when returning to civilian life. more

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Book:Chasing Ghosts: Failures and Facades in Iraq: A Soldier's Perspective

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“Few things a doctor does are more important than relieving pain. . . pain is soul destroying. No patient should have to endure intense pain unnecessarily. The quality of mercy is essential to the practice of medicine; here, of all places, it should not be strained.”

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Author:Marcia Angell

“It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.”

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Author:Marcia Angell

“A review of seventy-four clinical trials of antidepressants, for example, found that thirty-seven of thirty-eight positive studies [that praised the drugs] were published. But of the thirty-six negative studies, thirty-three were either not published or published in a form that conveyed a positive outcome.”

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Author:Marcia Angell

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Author:Marcia Angell

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“As it is a major component of blood, water is vital for transporting oxygen to the brain. Heaven forbid that your blood should dry out.”

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Book:Bad Science

Source: Bad Science

“If I was writing a lifestyle book it would have the same advice on every page, and you’d know it all already. Eat lots of fruit and vegetables, and live your whole life in every way as well as you can: exercise regularly as part of your daily routine, avoid obesity, don’t drink too much, don’t smoke, and don’t get distracted from the real, basic, simple causes of ill health. But as we will see, even these things are hard to do on your own, and in reality require wholesale social and political changes.”