Derek Lowe

“The two most trusted medical journals in the United States had published incorrect, manufacturer-biased reports about major drugs. The FDA knew that both articles had misrepresented the data but did not correct the misleading information.”
― John Abramson, Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It

“—Questions can be so tricky, he said, like forks in the road. You can be having such a nice conversation and someone will raise a question, and the next thing you know you’re headed off in a whole new direction. In all probability, this new road will lead you to places that are perfectly agreeable, but sometimes you just want to go in the direction you were already headed.”
― Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway

“What is certain is that the implants have facilitated the most comprehensive dataset on human consciousness ever conceived.”
― Andrew Gillsmith, Our Lady of the Artilects

“And that’s when my allotment of not saying a word was all used up.”
― Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway