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“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.”
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“At school you were taught about chemicals in test tubes, equations to describe motion, and maybe something on photosynthesis—about which more later—but in all likelihood you were taught nothing about death, risk, statistics, and the science of what will kill or cure you.”
― Bad Science
― Bad Science
“I spend a lot of time talking to people who disagree with me - I would go so far as to say that it's my favourite leisure activity,”
― Bad Science
― Bad Science
“I'd like to submit to Bad Science my teacher who gave us a handout which says that 'Water is best absorbed by the body when provided in frequent small amounts.' What I want to know is this. If I drink too much in one go, will it leak out off my arsehole instead?
Thank you. Anton.”
― Bad Science
Thank you. Anton.”
― Bad Science
“Nutritionists don't stop there, because they can't: they have to manufacture complication, to justify the existence of their profession. These new nutritionists have a major commercial problem with the evidence. There's nothing very professional or proprietary about 'Eat your greens,' so they have had to push things further. But unfortunately for them, the technical, confusing, overcomplicated, tinkering interventions that they promote - the enzymes, the exotic berries - are very frequently not supported by convincing evidence.”
― Bad Science
― Bad Science
Piyush’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Piyush’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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185 friends
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66 friends
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5 books
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