A mistake in the operating room can threaten the life of one patient; a mistake in statistical analysis or interpretation can lead to hundreds of early deaths. So it is odd that, while we allow a doctor to conduct surgery only after years of training, we give SPSS to almost anyone.
-- Andrew Vickers (Surgeon)

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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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