“We are like dogs, cats, cows, rats ... What separates us from them and from the remaining matches against mammals is negligible. To have the same diseases. Rats spread plague like us, but we are just as contagious as them. And the dogs get diabetes, like we do, and get cancer, like us. And age, like us. And die, like us. Why then the biblical claim that man is the king of creation? Perhaps because only man has developed spoken language, the words, wherein lies its prodigious ability to lie.” MenAgeLyingDiesLanguageAbilityDogCreationKingsDiseaseCatClaimsCancerSpreadCowsBiblicalRatsPlagueContagiousDiabetesMammalsProdigiousSpoken Language Author:Fernando Vallejo
“Chiropractic, which celebrated its centennial in 1995, is a curious mixture of science and pseudoscience, sense and nonsense. Much of it is based on the theory that misaligned spinal bones produce nerve interference that causes disease. Many chiropractors claim that correcting these misalignments ("subluxations") can restore health and that regular spinal adjustments are essential to maintain it.” PainCausesProduceTheoryEssentialsDiseaseClaimsBonesCuriousTherapyInjuryNonsenseNervesMixturesAdjustmentInterferenceCorrectingPseudoscienceChiropracticCentennial Book:Inside Chiropractic: A Patient's Guide Source: Inside Chiropractic: A Patient's Guide
“The claim of alternative practitioners to not treat disease labels but the whole patient...allows alternative practitioners to live in a fool's paradise of quackery where they believe themselves to be protected from any challenges and demands for evidence.” BelieveWholeChallengesFoolDemandDiseaseEvidenceTreatsClaimsPatientAlternativesLabelsParadiseProtectedQuackery Author:Edzard Ernst
“The pink campaign has also served to "normalize" and depoliticize the disease and that makes it less threatening for a LOT of companies to jump onboard and claim breast cancer as their cause.” CausesCompanyDiseaseClaimsCancerCampaignsBreastsThreateningBreast Cancer Author:Ravida Din
“AIDS was one of those diseases that a lot of people tried to claim ownership over, and especially as someone who was, fortunately never HIV positive, I wanted to avoid any appearance of doing that.” PeopleWantedDiseaseClaimsAppearanceAidsOwnershipHivHiv Positive Author:Dale Peck
“Let me claim that Africa and I kept company for a while and then parted ways as if we were both party to relations with a failed outcome. Or say I was afflicted with Africa like a bout of a rare disease from which I have not managed a full recovery.” IfsWayPartyCompanyDiseaseLet MeClaimsRelationRecoveryOutcomesRare Diseases Book:The Poisonwood Bible Source: The Poisonwood Bible
“I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.” SufferingLostLeftTechnologyProgressDiseaseLosingClaimsWheelsConsumptionLungsSpinningRestorationGallopingBest Technology Author:Mahatma Gandhi