Either it is true that a medicine works or it isn't. It cannot be false in the ordinary sense but true in some alternative sense. If a therapy or treatment is anything more than a placebo, properly conducted double-blind trials, statistically analyzed, will eventually bring it through with flying colours. Many candidates for recognition as orthodox medicines fail the test and are summarily dropped. The alternative label should not (though, alas, it does) provide immunity from the same fate.

Atheists are the new gays; in the closet and pretty much disqualified from public office.

Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings.

We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

If God wanted to forgive our sins, why not just forgive them, without having himself tortured and executed in payment-thereby, incidentally, condemning remote future generations of Jews to pogroms and persecution as 'Christ-killers': did that hereditary sin pass down in the semen too?

I think what I'd really like to see would be a mass consciousness-raising movement so that we would all become vegetarian.

When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.