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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 66 quotes by Michael Specter Michael Specter (born 1955) is an American journalist who has been a staff writer, focusing on science and technology, and global public health at The New Yorker since September 1998. He has also written for The Washington Post and The New York Times. Read full biography of Michael Specter → ← Ctrl 1 2 3 4 5 6 Ctrl → The best way to deal with climate change has been obvious for years: cut greenhouse-gas emissions severely. We haven't done that. In 2010, for... → 0 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has established highly specific criteria for the diagnosis of Lyme disease: an acknowledged tick bite... → 0 The most blatant forms of denialism are rarely malevolent; they combine decency, a fear of change, and the misguided desire to do good - for our... → 0 The passengers in our microbiome contain at least four million genes, and they work constantly on our behalf: they manufacture vitamins and patrol... → 0 There is a major problem with reliance on placebos, like most vitamins and antioxidants. Everyone gets upset about Big Science, Big Pharma, but they... → 0 Until the Nineteen-Eighties, when Deng Xiaoping designated the area as China's first special economic zone, Shenzhen had been a tiny fishing... → 0 We are inhabited by as many as ten thousand bacterial species; these cells outnumber those which we consider our own by ten to one, and weigh, all... → 0 We inherit every one of our genes, but we leave the womb without a single microbe. As we pass through our mother's birth canal, we begin to... → 0 We're all in denial from time to time. We all see things that are too painful to really deal with. But this has consequences, and the... → 0 When most members of a community are vaccinated, they protect those who are not by eliminating the viral reservoirs in the population. The effect is... → 0 Why do people refuse to vaccinate their children against measles or whooping cough? In many cases, because they have never seen measles and have no... → 0 Antioxidants are completely useless. 0 I started to write about science and medicine at the 'Washington Post,' in the early days of the AIDS epidemic. 0 ← Ctrl 1 2 3 4 5 6 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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