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If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art

If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs. – Sir Peter Medawar

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Research is subordinated (not to a long-term social benefit) but to an immediate commercial profit. Currently, disease (not health) is one of the major sources of profit for the pharmaceutical industry, and the doctors are willing agents of those profits. – Walter Modell

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After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth. – Helene Deutsch

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Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them. – Linus Pauling

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