Truth course
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* Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you in after life, save only this, that if you work hard and intelligently you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot, and that, in my view, is the main, if not the sole, purpose of education. —John Alexander Smith, professor of moral philosophy at Oxford, 1914, | * Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you in after life, save only this, that if you work hard and intelligently you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot, and that, in my view, is the main, if not the sole, purpose of education. —John Alexander Smith, professor of moral philosophy at Oxford, 1914, | ||
* Timothy Caulfield, "The Cure for Everything: Untangling Twisted Messages about Health, Fitness, and Happiness" | * Timothy Caulfield, "The Cure for Everything: Untangling Twisted Messages about Health, Fitness, and Happiness" | ||
| + | * http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/20/opinion/testing-standard-medical-practices.html | ||
* Münchhausen Trilemma | * Münchhausen Trilemma | ||
* Turtles all the way down | * Turtles all the way down | ||
* [http://xkcd.com/1096/ xkcd on clinical testing] | * [http://xkcd.com/1096/ xkcd on clinical testing] | ||
