No matter how smart or well-educated you are, you can be deceived.

I questioned her further, and eventually got to talk to her doctor. And her doctor sort of shook his head and he said, I have examined her for throat cancer at least 15 times in the past few years.

Science is best defined as a careful, disciplined, logical search for knowledge about any and all aspects of the universe, obtained by examination of the best available evidence and always subject to correction and improvement upon discovery of better evidence. What's left is magic. And it doesn't work.

Feeling better is not actually being better.

The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment.

We have fought long and hard to escape from medieval superstition. I, for one, do not wish to go back.

A quick example of that is a woman who said she'd been healed of throat cancer where the faith healer admitted he touched her on the forehead.