“Science is an array of methods. What humans do with science is something else: those methods spun according to specific purposes and contexts in which results are disseminated.

Even were the methods capable of nearly explicit honesty, the humans that employ them would, by the nature of their minds and humanity, add spin… of some kind or another.

In fact, the nature of our relationships with data demand we do so — numbers alone are meaningless unless some narrative is ascribed. Numbers can never equal facts in the same way that minds don’t fit into sentences, statements, or language… that is used to express modest sub-features… expressions… of minds.

If you suggest that we discard and/or suspect the entire array of habits and methods and … heuristics… that comprise our present situation in medical science…. you should, I think, be so good as to suggest something better. Because »any system, no matter how apparently effective or advanced… can be questioned. The fact that this is so is »what allows it to advance. But if you intend to suggest it has been falsified, you must show us this new road, not merely suggest it… or worse, pretend that, since it can be questioned it must be in error.”

— infraheard