Paul A. Offit
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“On January 18, 1897, Indiana state representative Taylor I. Record argued in favor of changing the value of pi. Pi, which can be rounded to 3.14159, is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. Tyler believed that the number was inconveniently long; in House Bill 246, he asked that it be rounded up to 3.2. The bill passed the House but was defeated in the Senate when the chairman of Purdue University’s math department successfully pleaded that it would make Indiana a national laughingstock. The value of pi in Indiana remains the same as in every other state.”
― Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine
― Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine
“History is the error we are forever correcting.” —Anthony Marra, The Tsar of Love and Techno”
― Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
― Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
“Parents may be free to become martyrs themselves, but it does not follow that they are free, in identical circumstances, to make martyrs of their children.”
― Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All
― Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All
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