“Eradication of microbial disease is a will-o'-the-wisp; pursuing it leads into a morass of hazy biological concepts and half truths.” HalfDiseaseConceptsHalf TruthWispsHazy Author:Rene Dubos
“The truths that seem most truthful, if you look at them from all sides, if you look at them close up, turn out to be either half truths or lies.” IfsLooksSeemsTruthLyingTurnsSidesHalfTruthfulHalf Truth Author:Mario Vargas Llosa
“It's no mystery why many of us in the media can't get enough of the fabricators Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass, the latter of whom concocted more than a score of bogus feature stories for the New Republic (and who wrote for other magazines, including this one, once) in the mid-1990s. Anyone--journalist, student, academic--who has ever stared at a blank screen, their brains grinding emptiness, and thought, How can I fill this hole? knows that in those desperate moments before a deadline, almost anyone can do almost anything: make stuff up, plagiarize, scribble senseless half-truths.” KnowsEnoughMomentsStoriesStuffCan DoBrainHalfMysteryMediaStudentsIncludingGlassesScreensHolesMagazinesJournalistFeaturesDesperateEmptinessScoreLatterRepublicAcademicBlankDeadlineBlairHalf TruthScribbles Author:David Edelstein