“...Only the big food manufacturers have the wherewithal to secure FDA-approved health claims for their products and then trumpet them to the world. Generally, it is the products of modern food science that make the boldest health claims, and these are often founded on incomplete and often bad science.” WorldBigsModernProductsClaimsSecureIncompleteTrumpetsApprovedFda Book:Food Rules: An Eater's Manual Source: Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
“Some of the big philosophical problems have been solved by science, at least to a 1st approximation. Examples: the problems of matter, and mind. Only philosophical reactionaries, like Noam Chomsky, claim that they are and will remain mysteries.” MindHas BeensMatterProblemBigsMysteryExampleClaimsPhilosophicalReactionariesApproximation Author:Mario Bunge
“God created... light anddark, heaven and hell-science claims the same thing as religion, that the Big Bang createdeverything in the universe with an opposite."Including matter itself, antimatter"” MatterBigsLightUniverseHeavenHellOppositesClaimsIncludingBangsHeaven And HellAntimatter Author:Dan Brown
“When your claim to be victims of secularism rests on Wal-Mart greeters wishing shoppers Happy Holidays, you are clearly a bunch of great big babies.” BigsWishBabyClaimsVictimBunchHolidaySecularismShoppersHappy Holidays Author:Katha Pollitt
“Orthodox Jews, or, as they are known in the Talmud, the Really Chosen Ones, are committed to the idea that the entire Torah was dictated by God verbatim to Moses at Mount Sinai... Other forms of Judaism dispute this claim, although it does explain certain passages in the first Torah, such as, I'm sorry, am I boring you? and What do you like better, Moses, Lord Almighty or Big Hoohah?” FirstsDoeIdeasBigsFormCertainKnownLordClaimsSorryCommittedJewBoringChosenOrthodoxPassagesAlmightyI'm SorryJudaismDisputesMosesTorahChosen OneSinai Author:Jon Stewart
“Today much of anti-biofuel "science" - including the false claim that biofuels need more energy to make than they contain - has been shown to be complete hogwash, bought and paid for by big oil.” NeedsHas BeensBigsTodayEnergyClaimsPaidIncludingOilBiofuelsBig OilHogwash Author:Josh Tickell
“My assessment of Julian Assange is a professional one, really, of what he's managed to achieve, and the idea that he came up with, which set the world alight and continues to inspire others like Snowden [NSA leaker Edward Snowden], about the secret goings-on that are done in our name with our tax dollars on behalf of big business or politics. He launched the revolutionary idea that citizens can start to claim back a paradigm for questioning power structures and those in authority through an anonymous, whistle-blowing website.” WorldIdeasDoneBigsNamesSecretAchieveInspireCitizensTaxesAuthorityClaimsStructureDollarsRevolutionaryQuestioningBehalfWebsiteParadigmAssessmentNsaBig BusinessInspire OthersSnowdenTax DollarsRevolutionary IdeasAssange Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“A big win for [Hillary] Clinton would allow her to claim that the country rejected Trumpism, while a narrow win leaves her limping into office with the highest unfavorable ratings for any new president.” CountryBigsWinningPresidentOfficeHighestClaimsClintonRejectedRatingLimping Author:Mara Liasson
“The Bolshevik revolution was a counter-revolution. Its first moves were to destroy and eliminate every socialist tendency that had developed in the pre-revolutionary period. Their goal was as they said; it wasn't a big secret. They regarded the Soviet Union as sort a backwater. They were orthodox Marxists, expecting a revolution in Germany. They moved toward what they themselves called "state capitalism," then they moved on to Stalinism. They called it democracy and called it socialism. The one claim was as ludicrous as the other.” FirstsSaidStatesBigsMovingGoalSecretDemocracyRevolutionPeriodsCapitalismClaimsMovedUnionsSocialismTendenciesRevolutionaryGermanyOrthodoxSovietExpectingSocialistThey SaidSoviet UnionMarxistMoved OnStalinismBolsheviks Author:Noam Chomsky
“I think that a big part of the energy that was going into fighting AIDS was reduced when we saw that more of the new infections were among our black and brown young people. That's a sad truth to have to claim, but I believe it's true.” PeopleThinkingBelieveBigsYoungFightingEnergyI BelieveBlackSawsClaimsAidsBrownInfectionSad Truth Author:Cleve Jones
“That's why Apple, Microsoft and the big information technology companies have kept so much money registered abroad (although in US dollar accounts with a nominal foreign address's owner). They pretend to make their global income in Ireland. They have an office, which could be simply a postal drop box in Ireland, and claim to make all their money there, not in America.” BigsAmericaCompanyTechnologyInformationOfficeAccountsClaimsDollarsBoxesIncomeApplesAddressesOwnersIrelandMicrosoftInformation Technology Author:Michael Hudson
“I'm convinced that the Christian claim is really true, that this is just a warm up to the big event. That this is just the appetizer to the feast, and if we can plug into that and understand that this part of our story is just the introduction, it is not even the first line of the first paragraph, it's just the first letter or first word. We are just getting started.” IfsFirstsStoriesBigsChristianLinesEventsLettersClaimsWarmConvincedIntroductionParagraphPlugsReally TrueAppetizersGetting StartedBig Events Author:Max Lucado
“Of course there are critics who believe that no matter what we do, the Florida dream is over. They claim that we must accept the idea that inevitably our future is one of high taxes and big government.” BelieveIdeasMatterDreamBigsGovernmentCoursesAcceptingTaxesClaimsNo Matter WhatCriticsOur FutureFloridaBig GovernmentHigh Taxes Author:Marco Rubio
“Claim whatever you want. Say you only want a happy family or a successful career or a big house. I say: no, that's not what you want. You'll settle for those things, but you really want a monkey that does your evil bidding. Pullman is a genius just for this.” WantDoeBigsEvilHouseCareersSuccessfulGeniusClaimsWhat You WantSettlingMonkeysBiddingHappy FamilyBig HousesSuccessful Career Author:Maureen Johnson
“Deregulation is a transfer of power from the trodden to the treading. It is unsurprising that all conservative parties claim to hate big government.” BigsGovernmentHatePartyClaimsConservativeTransfersBig GovernmentTreadingConservative PartyDeregulation Author:George Monbiot
“There’s a big difference between death threats and love letters–even if the person writing the death threats still claims to actually love you. Of course, considering I once tried to kill someone I loved, maybe I had no right to judge.” IfsWritingPersonsStillsBigsCoursesDifferencesLove YouJudgingLettersAnd LoveClaimsThreatConsideringLove Letter Book:Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel Source: Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel
“Atheists themselves used to be very comfortable in maintaining that the universe is eternal and uncaused. The problem is that they can no longer hold that position because modern evidence that the universe started with the Big Bang. So they can't legitimately object when I make the same claim about God - he is eternal and he is uncaused.” ProblemBigsUsedUniverseModernPositionObjectsComfortableEternalEvidenceClaimsAtheistUsed To BeMaintainingBangs Author:William Lane Craig
“Big Data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they are doing it.” ThinkingKnowsBigsSexKnow HowInformationClaimsWittyDataAnalysisThought ProvokingProvokingTeenageAnalyticsDatabasesToo Much InformationAnalysing Author:Dan Ariely