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“Just so you know,” I said, “you won’t find any countries where child mortality has increased. Because the world in general is getting better. Let’s have a short coffee break.”
― Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

“provided an important benefit. This conviction was based on intuition, not on evidence, and it had apparent limitations. Not every patient with short runs of PVCs goes on to develop more worrisome patterns; the antiarrhythmics had never been evaluated for this particular use; and any medication”
― Simon Whitney, From Oversight to Overkill: Inside the Broken System That Blocks Medical Breakthroughs—And How We Can Fix It