"Finish each day and be done with it.  You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can.  Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

As any regular reader of news will know, popular media report “scientific results” nearly every day. They come delivered in news reports and opinion pieces, and are often used to make a variety of points concerning important matters like health, parenting, education, even spirituality and self-knowledge. How seriously should we take them?

For example, since at least 2004, we have been reading about studiesshowing that “vitamin D may prevent arthritis.”  A 2010 Johns Hopkins Health Alert announced, “During the past decade,…

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. -Lao Tzu

Guilt- the gift that keeps on giving. -Anonymous

It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has. -Hippocrates