Quotes About Research

Sometimes you read something, and you have to read more and more about the background.

More and more research shows that chocolate is good for you. It's a mood elevator. It contains a lot of antioxidants and will keep us younger. It's good for your heart and acts like aspirin. It keeps your cholesterol low.

I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing.

Hopefully, we will get more and more people interested in doing research in space. I think eventually it's also going to be a great commercial market.

If you have lung cancer, the most important thing you can know is your genetic code.

I did some research into what was going on in terms of the sexual revolution that was happening in the '60s in the gay community and particularly in the drag world. Before the '60s, guys doing drag would dress like their mothers or iconic Hollywood actresses.

I am an old journalist, so I always do a lot of research and dive deep into people's character, who they are, and their motivation.

Maybe I don't have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.

They're specialists, the whole lot of them, and they don't believe in a method of work which cuts into every field of science from botany to archaeology. They limit their own scope in order to be able to dig in the depths with more concentration for details. Modern research demands that every special branch shall dig in its own hole. It's not usual for anyone to sort out what comes up out of the holes and try to put it all together.

The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.

Reading accounts is dull; economic detective work is the easy way to get to the same conclusion.

A lobby group seeking to deny the statistical evidence will always be able to point to some aspect of the current science that is not settled, note that the matter is terribly complicated, and call for more research. And these claims will sound scientific, even rather wise. Yet they give a false and dangerous impression: that nobody really knows anything.

If the story you're reading is about health, there's one place you should be sure to look for a second opinion: the Cochrane Collaboration.

In October 1949, less than two years after the trial began, Doll stopped smoking. He was thirty-seven, and had been a smoker his entire adult life. He and Hill had discovered that heavy smoking of cigarettes didn't just double the risk of lung cancer, or triple the risk, or even quadruple the risk. It made you sixteen times more likely to get lung cancer.

Testing a hypothesis using the numbers that helped form the hypothesis in the first place is not OK.15

Esther Duflo, a leading randomista. 'Sometimes

Yet the logic of academic grants and promotions tells you to publish at once, and for goodness' sake don't prod it too hard.

The low-fat diet is over,' Teicholz declared. Not only does this diet appear to cause heart disease, but in clinical trials on more than 52 000 people, the low-fat diet was shown to be 'ineffective in fighting any other kind of chronic disease', she said.

1911, the year in which industry introduced the first vegetable-oil food product. Consumers in the US knew it as Crisco, a hardened form of vegetable oil that was meant to replace lard. Research going back to the 1950s documents a long list of adverse health effects from these oils, including increased rates of cancer and inflammation.

Stephen Bassett, director of Paradigm Research Group, quips: "It's not just about lights in the sky: it's about lies on the ground." In recent years, by way of demeaning the subject, the media frequently belittles those involved in UFO research as "conspiracy theorists." But conspiracies there are, and researchers are justified in theorizing thereon.

Skepticism is a natural part of science

On the Cancer Frontier

American Cancer Society estimates that in 2015 1,658,370 new cancer cases will be diagnosed and that in the same year about 1,600 people will die from cancer-related conditions daily.

Specifically, they'd used genetic material from colon cancer, one of the more robust strains, and the results had been striking. The