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The Secret History of the War on Cancer
Supporting Documents
The Secret History
Chapter 1
Those who want the future to be different from the past, must study the past.
--- SPINOZA
Natural and Other Experiments
Chapter 2
Tragic sins become moral failures only if we should have known better from the outset.
--- JARED DIAMOND
A Broad Enough Principle
Chapter 3
It's a very comforting thought that this is a German peculiarity and nobody we know would ever dream of doing any such things. That's nonsense, and very dangerous nonsense.
--- GERHARD WEINBERG
Phantom Collaborators
Chapter 4
The right to search for truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true.
--- ALBERT EINSTEIN
Fear Sells
Chapter 5
If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together.
--- AFRICAN PROVERB
Making Goods out of Bads
Chapter 6
Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.
--- CHARLES DARWIN
Saving Cigarettes
Chapter 7
Some things reflect the failure of an entire sensibility.
--- SUSAN SONTAG
The Good War
Chapter 8
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny..."
--- ISAAC ASIMOV
Cancer Doctoring
Chapter 9
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
--- WOODY ALLEN
Deconstructing Cancer Statistics
Chapter 10
In G-d we trust. All others must provide data.
--- UNKNOWN
Doctoring Evidence
Chapter 11
You can observe a lot by watching.
--- YOGI BERRA
The Harshest of Schoolmasters
Chapter 12
It's difficult to get a man to understand something if his salary depends on his not understanding it.
--- UPTON SINCLAIR
No Safe Place
Chapter 13
Why should anybody pay to see a play about Love Canal when you can drive through New Jersey for free?
--- DUSTIN HOFFMAN, IN TOOTSIE
Chasing Tales
Chapter 14
All scientific work is incomplete ... All scientific work is liable to be upset or modified by advancing knowledge. That does not confer upon us a freedom to ignore the knowledge we already have, or to postpone the action that it appears to demand at a given time.
--- HARRIET HARDY
Presumed Innocent
Chapter 15
When yesterday's "triumph of modern chemistry" turns out instead to be today's threat to the global environment, it is legitimate to ask what else we don't know.
--- DENIS HAYES
