Children can be disgusting, and often they can develop extraordinary talents, but I’m yet to meet any child who can stimulate his carotid arteries inside his ribcage.

Doctors and patients need as much data as possible to make an informed decision about what treatment is best.

I agree, the world would be a better place if doctors were less enthusiastic about adopting very new drugs.

Amazing things happen when you pull individual pieces of information together into larger linked datasets: meaning emerges, as you produce facts from figures.

These corporations run our culture, and they riddle it with bullshit.

Real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else's position.

Most bloggers have no institutional credibility, and so they must build it, by linking transparently, and allowing you to easily double check their work. But more than anything, because linking sources is such an easy thing to do, and the motivations for avoiding links are so dubious, I've detected myself using a new rule of thumb: if you don't link to primary sources, I just don't trust you.