"If caught early, Lyme is easily treated with……" — Michael Specter
"If caught early, Lyme is easily treated with antibiotics. But activists, and many researchers, have long contended that tens of thousands of people remain unaware that they have been infected - sometimes for years, during which the bacterium can spread to the heart, nervous system, and brain."
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39 Quotes by Michael Specter
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People wrap themselves in their beliefs. And they do it in such a way that you can't set them free.…
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Be sceptical, ask questions, demand proof. Demand evidence. Don't take anything for granted. But here's the thing: When you get…
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We are inhabited by as many as ten thousand bacterial species; these cells outnumber those which we consider our own…
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The passengers in our microbiome contain at least four million genes, and they work constantly on our behalf: they manufacture…
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If left untreated, Lyme disease can be crippling, yet it is a difficult illness to contract: a tick needs to…
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I moved from Moscow to Rome with my family and two bicycles in 1998, and spent a lot of that…
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Even a two-degree climb in average global temperatures could cause crop failures in parts of the world that can least…
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Although it may seem callous to say so, millions of Americans are lucky that Magic Johnson was infected with H.I.V.…
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One morning every spring, for exactly two minutes, Israel comes to a stop. Pedestrians stand in place, drivers pull over…
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Much of modern molecular biology and microbiology has been based on the effort to decipher the basic code of life,…
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I have covered wars, before the epidemic began and since. They are all ugly and painful and unjust, but for…
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Why do people refuse to vaccinate their children against measles or whooping cough? In many cases, because they have never…
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A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the…
— John Avlon
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One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think…
— Bertrand Russell
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The Sister Fund supports spiritual women and their organizations, both grassroots activists for justice, and national and international social change…
— Helen LaKelly Hunt
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Lovers of freedom, lovers of social justice, disarmers, peacekeepers, civil disobeyers, democrats, civil-rights activists, and defenders of the environment are…
— Jonathan Schell
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Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences…
— Bill Gates
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I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.
— Studs Terkel
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From these activists we can learn a crucial lesson: without citizens creating the institutions necessary for facilitating the growth of…
— Kevin Mattson
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Grassroots groups challenge the "business-as-usual" environmentalism that is generally practiced by the more privileged wildlife-and conservation-oriented groups. The focus of…
— Robert D Bullard
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Smoking cigarettes seems to alarm peace activists much more than voting for Reagan does.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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The bigotry is so virulent that it may be time to make Christians a protected class. Right now 'Christo-phobia' and…
— E.W. Jackson
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Breast feeding activists plan to descend on Washington for a public breast feeding demonstration. Also descending on Washington, thousands of…
— Conan O'Brien
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I've always been fascinated by activists, people who will devote their life to a cause, people who go to India…
— Rachel Weisz
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