"Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense"
"Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic."
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Source: Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility”, p.24, Random House
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