We're lying ourselves into believing things are untrue, like organic food will solve all our problems, or vitamins will make us healthy,… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
If left untreated, Lyme disease can be crippling, yet it is a difficult illness to contract: a tick needs to attach itself… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
Any group that intends to sell laboratory meat will need to build bioreactors - factories that can grow cells under pristine conditions.… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
By themselves, genetically engineered crops will not end hunger or improve health or bolster the economies of struggling countries. They won't save… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
Deliberately modifying the earth's atmosphere would be a desperate gamble with significant risks. Yet the more likely climate change is to cause… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
Throughout the United States, at the dawn of the Progressive era, dozens of laws and regulations were established to empower police officers,… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
Humanity has nearly suffocated the globe with carbon dioxide, yet nuclear power plants that produce no such emissions are so mired in… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
Some people will deny anything that displeases or scares them: unusual pain in their chests, unwanted lumps beneath their skin, or the… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
Until the Nineteen-Eighties, when Deng Xiaoping designated the area as China's first special economic zone, Shenzhen had been a tiny fishing village. Suddenly, eleven… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
There are people who could watch a hurricane like Sandy blow out of the Atlantic every other day and blame it on anything but… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
We're lying ourselves into believing things are untrue, like organic food will solve all our problems, or vitamins will make us healthy, or we… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
I started to write about science and medicine at the 'Washington Post,' in the early days of the AIDS epidemic. — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
Clearly, some of the reason people embrace alternatives and reject vaccines is that they are angry and mistrustful of government and of pharmaceutical conglomerates.… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
The numbers matter: underreporting of Lyme disease obscures the true burden of the illnesses, on individuals as well as on health-care systems. It also… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
There is a major problem with reliance on placebos, like most vitamins and antioxidants. Everyone gets upset about Big Science, Big Pharma, but they… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
Denialist arguments are often bolstered by accurate information taken wildly out of context, wielded selectively, and supported by fake experts who often don't seem… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
Your dollar cheeseburger isn't a dollar if you factor in what it's going to cost in health care. — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
To suggest that organic vegetables, which cost far more than conventional produce, can feed billions of people in parts of the world without roads… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
The history of agriculture is the history of humans breeding seeds and animals to produce traits we want in our crops and livestock. — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
