Michael Specter Quotes

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• Some people will deny anything that displeases or scares them: unusual pain in their chests, unwanted lumps beneath their skin, or the fact that humans…
• There are many theories about the best way to remove excess carbon from the atmosphere - some are ludicrous, others are at least worth study.…
• The Maldives, a string of islands off the coast of India whose highest point above sea level is eight feet, may be the first nation…
• Many climate scientists say their biggest fear is that warming could melt the Arctic permafrost - which stretches for thousands of miles across Alaska, Canada,…
• To suggest that organic vegetables, which cost far more than conventional produce, can feed billions of people in parts of the world without roads or…
• Meat supplies a variety of nutrients - among them iron, zinc, and Vitamin B12 - that are not readily found in plants. We can survive…
• Nobody celebrates when they avoid an illness they never expected to get.
• If there is anything more frightening than the threat of global nuclear war, it is the certainty that humans not only stand on the verge…
• Humanity has nearly suffocated the globe with carbon dioxide, yet nuclear power plants that produce no such emissions are so mired in objections and obstruction…
• There is a major problem with reliance on placebos, like most vitamins and antioxidants. Everyone gets upset about Big Science, Big Pharma, but they love…
• Daily vitamins are of no value.
• Antioxidants are completely useless.
• If people want to believe that our ancestors were riding around on dinosaurs or that the protracted, increasing, and devastating warming of the Earth is…
• Newspapers and magazines have been valuable to us precisely because they apply filters to information, otherwise known as editing, and often the Internet seems valuable…
• Many of the most eloquent people I have ever met work in lab coats every day.
• Throughout the United States, at the dawn of the Progressive era, dozens of laws and regulations were established to empower police officers, public-health officials, and…
• Universal vaccination may well be the greatest success story in medical history.
• It is a remarkable fact that smallpox, a scourge for thousands of years, has now vanished from the earth, except for two tiny vials, one…
• Most people prepare for travels by reading about their destination; it always seemed an odd approach to me. I find it much easier and more…

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