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“When you mix politics and science, you get politics.” — John M. Barry from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Influenza https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th

by jp555 6y ago

“When you mix politics and science, you get politics.” — John M. Barry from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Influenza https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Influenza

vixen99 6y ago
As with mixing ice cream with 1% of s
btrettel 6y ago
As far as I can tell, that quote does not appear in the cited book. https://books.google.com/books?id=BYsW6qTP0pMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22When+you+mix+politics+and+science,+you+get+politics.%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0#v=onepage&q=politics&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=BYsW6qTP0pMC&printsec=fron... A nearly identical quote appears in this editorial by the same author: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/opinion/coronavirus-shutdown.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/opinion/coronavirus-shutd...
- jp555 6y ago
  Ah nice thx!