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<blockquote>According to an article in the WSJ by Dr. Jerome Groopman of the Harvard Medical School criticizing alternative medicine: on the wall of the office of Dr. Stephen Straus who directs NCCAM, (formerly the Office of Alternative Medicine which is within the National Institutes of Health) there exists the following framed quotation, "The plural of anecdote is not evidence." | <blockquote>According to an article in the WSJ by Dr. Jerome Groopman of the Harvard Medical School criticizing alternative medicine: on the wall of the office of Dr. Stephen Straus who directs NCCAM, (formerly the Office of Alternative Medicine which is within the National Institutes of Health) there exists the following framed quotation, "The plural of anecdote is not evidence." | ||
This useful and insightful aphorism appears in various versions as can be seen by this website [http://bearcastle.com/blog/?m=20050808 here] </blockquote> | This useful and insightful aphorism appears in various versions as can be seen by this website [http://bearcastle.com/blog/?m=20050808 here]. </blockquote> | ||
==Forsooth== | ==Forsooth== | ||
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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment. - Jean Baudrillard
According to an article in the WSJ by Dr. Jerome Groopman of the Harvard Medical School criticizing alternative medicine: on the wall of the office of Dr. Stephen Straus who directs NCCAM, (formerly the Office of Alternative Medicine which is within the National Institutes of Health) there exists the following framed quotation, "The plural of anecdote is not evidence." This useful and insightful aphorism appears in various versions as can be seen by this website here.