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Marc tint un journal intime de son état intérieur. Il y inscrivait, en grec, les maximes auxquelles il recourait pour se fortifier, les réminiscences de ses auteurs favoris, les passages des moralistes qui lui parlaient le plus, les principes qui, dans la journée, l'avaient soutenu, parfois les reproches que sa conscience scrupuleuse croyait avoir

Ambrose, while he was eminent as a statesman, was, in other respects, merely typical of his age. He wrote, like other ecclesiastical authors, a treatise in praise of virginity, and another deprecating the remarriage of widows. When he had decided on the site for his new cathedral, two skeletons (revealed in a vision, it was said) were conveniently

The medical establishment promulgates the view that science-based medicine led to the overthrow of ‘quackery’, despite the fact that this ‘scientific’ system entails the use of toxic substances in the treatment of disease.

Another English physician who opposed the practice of vaccination was Dr M Beddow Bayly MD MRCS LRCP, who had also qualified under both the Royal College of Surgeons and the Royal College of Physicians. In 1936 Dr Beddow Bayly wrote a booklet entitled The Case Against Vaccination, in which he states that, “Of scientific basis or justification for

A study of patients who died in the ICU compared autopsy results with the diagnosis that physicians had provided while the patients were still alive. Physicians also reported their confidence. The result: “clinicians who were ‘completely certain’ of the diagnosis antemortem were wrong 40% of the time.” Here again, expert overconfidence is

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