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jake-head-shot.jpgJake Young is a MD/PhD student at Mount Sinai School of Medicine focusing in Neuroscience. He is due to graduate in 2032. He received a BS and a MS in Biological Sciences from Stanford University -- where he spent most of his time drinking heavily and building vegetable catapults instead of learning information that would now be eminently useful. When he is not failing terrifically to perform his sworn duties, he enjoys watching bad movies, ethnic food, and running.

Pure Pedantry is a blog about science -- social sciences and otherwise -- as well as academic and scientific culture. No one can live on science alone, so I also like to dwell on pop culture, periodically explore the humanities, and indulge in other types of geeky goodness.

Jake is joined periodically by two wonderful guest bloggers: Kara Contreary and Kate Seip. See the About Page.

DISCLAIMERS: 1) Jake Young is not a licensed physician (yet). He is merely a medical student. The information published on this site is not intended for use in medical decision making. Please seek advice from a licensed, medical professional before making any health decisions. 2) The opinions expressed are my own or those of my co-bloggers. They do not represent the views of SEED magazine or the educational establishments we currently attend.

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Mitchell saw a grain of truth in all things erroneous.
-- a mild critic of economist Wesley C. Mitchell, first director of NBER
There's a grain of truth in that.
-- Wesley C. Mitchell's reply

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.
-- Walter Bagehot

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.
-- Sydney Smith

I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so.
-- Sydney Smith

Oh, don't tell me of facts -- I never believe facts: you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.
-- Sydney Smith

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
-- Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
-- William James

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
-- William James

[on failing to capture Library ghost]
Hee-he! "Get her!" That was your whole plan. I like it...it was scientific.
-- Bill Murray in Ghostbusters

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