One of the greatest problems in medicine is the collusion between academics seeking money and industry in search of a plausible narrative for selling products. ...The role of academe is to question lucrative dogma, not to join the feeding frenzy.
-- Richard Lehman
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RichardLehman #Academia #Dogma #Medicine #Science
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
-- Victor Hugo
Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.
-- Paul Theroux
It is the arrogance of every age to believe that yesterday was calm.
-- Tom Peters
Medicine is a social science, and politics only medicine on a grand scale.
-- Rudolf Virchow
To be alive--is Power-- / Existence--in itself-- / Without a further function-- / Omnipotence--Enough-- / / To be alive--and Will! / 'Tis able as a God-- / The Maker--of Ourselves--be what-- / Such being Finitude!
-- Emily Dickinson
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First by reflection, which is noblest; second by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
-- Confucius
Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.
-- Hannah Arendt
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#Mutualism in disguise: #CarnivorousPlants and wasps blur the line between friend and food https://phys.org/news/2026-05-carnivorous-wasps-blur-line-friend.html paper: https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecy.70395
"the #PitcherPlants get a boost in nitrogen by consuming a wasp every now and again, and the #wasps get a stable food source in the form of nutrient-rich nectar. By forgoing the immediate reward of capturing many #insects, these #plants may be ensuring a stable population of prey for the future."
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