The politicized sponsors of this pseudoscientific nonsense should be ashamed to live, let alone die. If you want to take part in the “war” against cancer, and other terrible maladies, too, then join the battle against their lethal stupidity.
Interpretation
Hitchens criticizes the misuse of science for political gain and urges the public to combat misinformation in health matters.
In this quote, Christopher Hitchens expresses his disdain for those who promote pseudoscience, particularly in the context of serious issues like cancer. He emphasizes the importance of fighting against ignorance and misinformation that can hinder the fight against real diseases, urging individuals to take a stand against harmful political influences that distort scientific understanding.
In practice
During a health conference, one might say this quote to emphasize the importance of relying on scientific evidence rather than political claims.
In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian plight as one where his people, expelled and dispossessed by Jewish victors, were in the unique historical position of being 'the victims of the victims': there was something quasi-Christian, I thought, in the apparent humility of that statement.
What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
Never ask while you are doing it if what you are doing is fun. Don't introduce even your most reliably witty acquaintance as someone who will set the table on a roar.
[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.
The worst days are when you feel foggy in the head - chemo-brain they call it. It's awful because you feel boring. As well as bored. And stupid. And resigned.
Let me tell you something: for hundreds of thousands of years, this kind of discussion would have been impossible to have, or those like us would have been having it at the risk of our lives. Religion now comes to us in this smiley-face, ingratiating way — because it’s had to give so much more ground and because we know so much more. But you’ve got no right to forget the way it behaved when it was strong, and when it really did believe that it had God on its side.
Black holes, we all know, are these regions where if an object falls in, it can't get out, but the puzzle that many struggled with over the decades is, what happens to the information that an object contains when it falls into a black hole. Is it simply lost?
I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer.
It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be enchanted by the act of learning all the way.
Mathematics, the non-empirical science par excellence . . . the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and the universe which are concealed by appearances.
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the _x000D_ sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment.
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