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“Subjects were given vitamin E, beta-carotene, both, or neither. The results were clear: those taking vitamins and supplements were more likely to die from lung cancer or heart disease than those who didn’t take them—the opposite of what researchers had anticipated.”
― Paul A. Offit, Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine

“In the mid-1800s, antivaccine activists claimed that vaccines contained the “poison of adders, the blood, entrails, and excretions of bats, toads and suckling whelps.” When, a hundred and fifty years later, Jenny McCarthy said that she wanted the ether and anti-freeze removed from vaccines, she had carried forward the centuries-old tradition of claiming that vaccines contain ingredients that aren’t there.”
― Anonymous

“In a world badly divided between rich and poor, the policy preferences and regulatory standards of the rich tend to prevail, sometimes to the disadvantage of the poor.”
― Robert Paarlberg, Starved for Science: How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of Africa

“The number of genetic engineers currently working on DT traits continues to grow, but given the high regulatory costs of bringing any entirely new GM crop to the market, the first commercialized version of an engineered DT crop will almost certainly come from one of the three big biotechnology companies now in pursuit of this objective in the United States: Syngenta, DuPont/Pioneer, and Monsanto.”
― Robert Paarlberg, Starved for Science: How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of Africa