There are always potential side effects for every vaccine.

Benjamin Franklin refused to have one of his children vaccinated against smallpox. The four-year-old boy died, and Franklin wrote later of how mistaken he was to expose him to the needless risk.

I think it is true that you can eat extremely healthy food at McDonald's, and you can eat amazingly badly at Chipotle.

Daily vitamins are of no value.

People wrap themselves in their beliefs. And they do it in such a way that you can't set them free. Not even the truth will set them free.

Your dollar cheeseburger isn't a dollar if you factor in what it's going to cost in health care.

I understand the horrors of having no insurance, but, believe me, eight hours of sleep and good meals are NOT going to prevent you from getting sick. Don't gamble with your life; it's a stupid bet.

In the Internet age, with the screaming on the radio, etc., it is hard to know what to believe and who is informed and who is not.

I started to write about science and medicine at the Washington Post, in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.

I have never earned one penny from any pharmaceutical company. I will never accept one penny from them either. Ever.

It is not possible to assert publicly that Monsanto is anything other than venal without being accused of being a sellout, a fraud, or worse.

This new world was a vicious, sleek world made of street lights and tight jeans, sharp smiles and fast cars. This was a city, edited. A city, pared down to its bare minimums, beautiful and abusive.

In the natural equation (Natural Society) freedom, is but the only element of equality commonly shared by all species".

Trusting yourself means you believe in a higher divine power.

I'm not a hero for living autistic. I'm a person just like you. Just living my life.

It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.

The attention that's being projected by men who simply watch you walking down the street, in the office, or in bed, in most cases, is going to be extremely destructive.

Courage you have, and the knowledge that we are all pilgrims together, wending through unknown country, home.

Everybody who served in John Kerry's boat under his command save one has stood with him.

I have redefined the so-called East-West relationship as essentially one of conflict, while it had previously been treated in romantic terms.

Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people.