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Rationality Quotes May 2012

by OpenThreadGuy

1st May 2012

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[anonymous]14y10

I did some checks and that appears to be said by Darrell Huff. Links below:

http://www.anvari.org/fortune/Miscellaneous_Collections/211181_proper-treatment-will-cure-a-cold-in-seven-days-but-left-to-itself-a-cold-will-hang-on-for-a-week.html

http://www-stat.wharton.upenn.edu/~steele/HoldingPen/Huff/Huff.htm

http://motd.ambians.com/quotes.php/name/linux_medicing/toc_id/1-1-20/s/47

http://www.pithypedia.com/?similarquotes=Proper+treatment+will+cure+a+cold+in+seven+days%2C+but+left+to+itself%2C%3Cbr%2F%3Ea+cold+will+hang+on+for+a+week.

Are you sure it was Henry G. Felsen?

Jayson_Virissimo14y110

I did some checks and that appears to be said by Darrell Huff...Are you sure it was Henry G. Felsen?

According to Darrell Huff, it was first said by Henry G. Felson:

As Henry G. Felson, a humorist and no medical authority, pointed out quite a while ago, proper treatment will cure a cold in seven days, but left to itself a cold will hang on for a week.

Huff, Darrell. How to lie with statistics. New York: Norton, 1993.