Any Quote by Michael Specter

There are always potential side effects for every vaccine.

— Michael Specter

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

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

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

I started to write about science and medicine at the 'Washington Post,' in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.

— Michael Specter

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

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

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

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

Your dollar cheeseburger isn't a dollar if you factor in what it's going to cost in health care.

— Michael Specter

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

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