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“We should listen less to the opinions of those who either overtly promote or stubbornly reject complementary and alternative medicine without acceptable evidence. The many patients who use complementary and alternative medicine deserve better. Patients and healthcare providers need to know which forms are safe and effective. Its future should (and hopefully will) be determined by unbiased scientific evaluation.”

“"Objective" means that, in a confrontation with the evidence, you would be willing to change your own mind.”

Mind Mean Would Be Pain Willing Evidence Objectives Therapy Injury Confrontation Willing To Change

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Hopefully we are emerging from an era of fantasy explanations for real phenomena. The authors certainly have to face a community of therapists who are obsessionally committed to explanations for disease and for therapy unsupported by a scrap of evidence except for their claimed therapeutic success.”

Real Pain Faces Community Fantasy Disease Evidence Committed Hopefully Eras Therapy Explanation Injury Emerging Therapists Scrap Therapeutic

Author:Patrick David Wall

“When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can find evidence for it in nonhuman species - the brain processes it at a faster speed. Compassion for mental pain took many seconds longer.”

Knows Pain Process Deals Brain Compassion Evolution Evidence Species Speed Faster Seconds Physical Pain Mental Pain

Author:Antonio Damasio

“Neither logic nor scientific evidence supports such a belief. Although spinal manipulation can relieve certain types of back pain, neck pain, and other musculoskeletal symptoms, there is no scientific evidence that it can restore or maintain health. As a result of expressing my opinion on this subject, I have been called a chiropractic heretic.”

Source: Inside Chiropractic: A Patient's Guide

“These doctors, who had long experience with people in pain in addition to their traditional training and schooling, had discovered that nothing happens without communication, treatment based on evidence of outcome, and what used to be called a good bedside manner.”

Source: Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign

“Simple intervention - the time spent with a patient - is a very powerful ingredient of the patient-doctor contract. The evidence is against the traditions such as surgery for back pain being true - the evidence says it doesn't work.”

Pain Simple Powerful Evidence Tradition Doctors Patient Being True Therapy Injury Ingredients Contracts Surgery Intervention Very Powerful Time Spent Back Pain

Book:Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign

Source: Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign

“A powerful portfolio of physiological and behavioural evidence now exists to support the case that fish feel pain and that this feeling matters. In the face of such evidence, any argument to the contrary based on the claim that fish 'do not have the right sort of brain' can no longer be called scientific. It is just obstinate.”

Feels Matter Feelings Pain Faces Powerful Brain Cases Support Evidence Argument Claims Fishes Contrary Portfolios Obstinate Physiological

Book:Animal Welfare: Limping Towards Eden

Source: Animal Welfare: Limping Towards Eden

“He who busies himself in mean occupations, produces in the very pains he takes about things of little or no use, an evidence against himself of his negligence and indisposition to what is really good”

Mean Littles Use Pain Produce Evidence Occupation Negligence

Book:Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's

Source: Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's