The Semmelweis reflex is one reason it might take years until the information contained on this site is considered common knowledge.

“A true zombie is nothing more than an unconscious being apathetically and lifelessly lumbering across the planet buying and consuming everything in its path, unsatisfied, unfulfilled, anxious and unstill.”
– Judith Froemming

“Every man is a diary in which he writes one story while intending to write another. His humblest moment is when he compares the two.”
– Hugh B. Brown

“Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.”
– Mark Twain

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” — Marcel Proust

“Life itself is only a vision; a dream. Nothing exists, save empty space and you. And you are but a thought.”
– Mark Twain from The Mysterious Stranger

“He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.”
— Samuel Johnson

To: Steven Poole

Subject: “Your brain on pseudoscience: the rise of popular neurobollocks.” (http://ow.ly/dST8L)