“...Other countries are way ahead of ours in nutrition.” WayCountryAgeDarkMedicalNutritionOther CountriesDark Ages Author:Fred Richmond
“...Prevent postal investigators from aggressively interfering with, or closing, a commercial enterprise merely because it has been deemed not to adhere to the prevailing body of scientific opinion - whatever they have determined that to be.” Has BeensBodyAgeDarkOpinionDeterminedMedicalEnterpriseInterfereClosingDark AgesPrevailingInvestigators Author:Vin Weber
“After examining some of the recent cases which the Postal Service has pursued, vigorous prosecution of, for example, a health food advocate.” AgeDarkCasesExampleMedicalPursuedDark AgesVigorousExaminingProsecutionHealth FoodPostal Service Author:Vin Weber
“In my practice as surgeon, I am impressed by the alarming increase of cancer cases brought to my notice; an increase, which in the light of the general hygienic and sanitary improvements of our time, can point to no other cause than the indulgence in certain foodstuffs detrimental to normal life of the body.” BodyLightAgeCertainCausesDarkPracticeCasesNormalIncreaseCancerMedicalImprovementOur TimeImpressedIndulgenceDark AgesSurgeonsNormal LifeDetrimentalSanitary Author:Charles Horace Mayo
“...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.” SelfAgeDarkMankindPeriodsMedicalSatisfiedDelusionCherishDark AgesFinalityDogmatism Book:Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead Source: Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead
“In 1946, Oxford University in England was offered large funds to create a new Institute of Human Nutrition. The University refused the funds on the ground that the knowledge of human nutrition was essentially complete, and that the proposed institution would soon run out of meaningful research projects.” HumansRunningAgeDarkProjectsResearchEnglandInstitutionsUniversityMedicalMeaningfulFundNutritionDark AgesInstituteOxfordOxford University Author:Rene Dubos
“...These healers...my intellect has been unable to assimilate their theories....But their facts are patent and startling; and anything that interferes with the multiplication of such facts, and with our freest opportunity of observing and studying them, will, I believe, be a public calamity.” BelieveHas BeensFactsAgeOpportunityI BelieveDarkStudyTheoryIntellectMedicalInterfereObservingCalamityDark AgesHealerPatentsMultiplication Author:William James
“...As Thomas Kuhn pointed out in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, new scientific theories in any field are regarded with skepticism because scientists become attached to the old perspective earlier in their careers.” AgeDarkCareersFieldsTheoryRevolutionPerspectiveScientistStructureMedicalSkepticismDark AgesScientific TheoryScientific Revolution Author:Marilyn Ferguson
“Whatever the rationale, the suppression of unorthodox cancer therapies and the sustained persecution of their proponents by government and colleagues runs counter to freedom of thought, much less freedom of choice.” GovernmentRunningAgeChoicesDarkCancerMedicalTherapyColleaguesPersecutionDark AgesFreedom Of ThoughtFreedom Of ChoiceSuppressionRationaleUnorthodox Author:Marilyn Ferguson
“...That genius is a rare exception (:) It's not true. Talent and genius have been wasted on enormous scale throughout our history; this is all I know for sure.” KnowsHas BeensAgeDarkTalentGeniusMedicalScalesEnormousExceptionDark AgesTalent And Genius Author:Eric Hoffer