Michael Specter quote: "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has established highly specific criteria for the diagnosis of Lyme disease: an acknowledged tick bite, the appearance of a bull's-eye rash, and, for those who don't live in a region where Lyme is common, laboratory evidence of infection."

I moved from Moscow to Rome with my family and two bicycles in 1998, and spent a lot of that year- a...
MICHAEL SPECTER

We inherit every one of our genes, but we leave the womb without a single microbe. As we pass throug...
MICHAEL SPECTER

The passengers in our microbiome contain at least four million genes, and they work constantly on ou...
MICHAEL SPECTER

By themselves, genetically engineered crops will not end hunger or improve health or bolster the eco...
MICHAEL SPECTER

The most blatant forms of denialism are rarely malevolent; they combine decency, a fear of change, a...
MICHAEL SPECTER

The history of agriculture is the history of humans breeding seeds and animals to produce traits we ...
MICHAEL SPECTER

Newspapers and magazines are vanishing. But science writers are not. In fact, they are becoming so a...
MICHAEL SPECTER

Denialist arguments are often bolstered by accurate information taken wildly out of context, wielded...
MICHAEL SPECTER

Although it may seem callous to say so, millions of Americans are lucky that Magic Johnson was infec...
MICHAEL SPECTER

'Meat' is a vague term and can be used to refer to many parts of an animal, including intern...
MICHAEL SPECTER

Humanity has nearly suffocated the globe with carbon dioxide, yet nuclear power plants that produce ...
MICHAEL SPECTER

There are people who could watch a hurricane like Sandy blow out of the Atlantic every other day and...
MICHAEL SPECTER

If left untreated, Lyme disease can be crippling, yet it is a difficult illness to contract: a tick ...
MICHAEL SPECTER

All the food we eat, whether Brussels sprouts or pork bellies, has been modified by mankind. Genetic...
MICHAEL SPECTER

When people say they prefer organic food, what they often seem to mean is they don't want their ...
MICHAEL SPECTER

Some people will deny anything that displeases or scares them: unusual pain in their chests, unwante...
MICHAEL SPECTER

Much of modern molecular biology and microbiology has been based on the effort to decipher the basic...
MICHAEL SPECTER

All the food we eat - every grain of rice and kernel of corn - has been genetically modified. None o...
MICHAEL SPECTER

Throughout the United States, at the dawn of the Progressive era, dozens of laws and regulations wer...
MICHAEL SPECTER

Even a two-degree climb in average global temperatures could cause crop failures in parts of the wor...
MICHAEL SPECTER

Newspapers and magazines have been valuable to us precisely because they apply filters to informatio...
MICHAEL SPECTER

Someone told me that they didn't want to take a flu shot because they didn't want to put a f...
MICHAEL SPECTER

To suggest that organic vegetables, which cost far more than conventional produce, can feed billions...
MICHAEL SPECTER

We are inhabited by as many as ten thousand bacterial species; these cells outnumber those which we ...
MICHAEL SPECTER

Lyme disease is the most commonly reported tick-borne illness in the United States, and the incidenc...
MICHAEL SPECTER

Be sceptical, ask questions, demand proof. Demand evidence. Don't take anything for granted. But her...
MICHAEL SPECTER

There is a major problem with reliance on placebos, like most vitamins and antioxidants. Everyone ge...
MICHAEL SPECTER

If there is anything more frightening than the threat of global nuclear war, it is the certainty tha...
MICHAEL SPECTER

Why do people refuse to vaccinate their children against measles or whooping cough? In many cases, b...
MICHAEL SPECTER

Deliberately modifying the earth's atmosphere would be a desperate gamble with significant risks...
MICHAEL SPECTER

With a hundred and seventy-eight machines to sequence the precise order of the billions of chemicals...
MICHAEL SPECTER

Many of the most eloquent people I have ever met work in lab coats every day.
MICHAEL SPECTER

We inherit every one of our genes, but we leave the womb without a single microbe. As we pass throug...
MICHAEL SPECTER

It is not possible to assert publicly that Monsanto is anything other than venal without being accus...
MICHAEL SPECTER

People wrap themselves in their beliefs. And they do it in such a way that you can't set them free. ...
MICHAEL SPECTER

If people want to believe that our ancestors were riding around on dinosaurs or that the protracted,...
MICHAEL SPECTER

Most people prepare for travels by reading about their destination; it always seemed an odd approach...
MICHAEL SPECTER

Clearly, some of the reason people embrace alternatives and reject vaccines is that they are angry a...
MICHAEL SPECTER

Any group that intends to sell laboratory meat will need to build bioreactors - factories that can g...
MICHAEL SPECTER

There has never been a verified scientific report that chelation therapy, a gluten-free diet, or any...
MICHAEL SPECTER

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

Most reputable scientists agree that climate change is real and that the effects are likely to be ba...
MICHAEL SPECTER

It is a remarkable fact that smallpox, a scourge for thousands of years, has now vanished from the e...
MICHAEL SPECTER

It doesn't seem to matter how often vaccines are proved safe or supplements are shown to offer n...
MICHAEL SPECTER

Universal vaccination may well be the greatest success story in medical history.
MICHAEL SPECTER

Many climate scientists say their biggest fear is that warming could melt the Arctic permafrost - wh...
MICHAEL SPECTER

Whatever my party affiliation, I will continue to be guided by President Kennedy's statement tha...
ARLEN SPECTER

The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first w...
ARLEN SPECTER

We don't need holy wars. What we need is tolerance and brotherhood and simple humanity.
ARLEN SPECTER

Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. Th...
ARLEN SPECTER

When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segre...
ARLEN SPECTER

When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a ...
ARLEN SPECTER

Cannibals are devouring senators.
ARLEN SPECTER

blatant court-stripping, taking away the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and setting a very bad pr...
ARLEN SPECTER

I certainly would not want to see a situation evolve where some intervening event occurred which mig...
ARLEN SPECTER

I hope that we'll have somebody who is modest like Judge Roberts says he is, someone who will promot...
ARLEN SPECTER

It does not signify disagreement with Roe v. Wade,
ARLEN SPECTER

It is my hope that we will spend more time talking about the substantive needs of schoolchildren tha...
ARLEN SPECTER

The President was considering doing something presidential to try to focus attention away from -- hi...
ARLEN SPECTER

My No. 1 priority is to get Rick Santorum re-elected in 2006. I would vote for him to any Senate lea...
ARLEN SPECTER

If the president can find someone in Judge Roberts' mold, I think by putting up that nominee, he dis...
ARLEN SPECTER

I can understand that Trent is anxious. So am I. But when you take a look at the particulars, all th...
ARLEN SPECTER

Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to ge...
ARLEN SPECTER

Look, the president can discharge all 93 U.S. attorneys for no reason at all, but not for a bad reas...
ARLEN SPECTER

I must say I am not pleased to have to arrange the Senate schedule around the availability of Senato...
ARLEN SPECTER

There's nothing more important than our good health - that's our principal capital asset.
ARLEN SPECTER

If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assert...
ARLEN SPECTER

Beating the tea party gang is more important than who does the beating.
ARLEN SPECTER

There is no doubt that our nation's security and defeating terrorism trump all other priorities.
ARLEN SPECTER

I knew people were going to see me see deteriorate before their eyes.
ARLEN SPECTER

I know that the president will listen to what Senator Frist has to say. I'm not saying he's going to...
ARLEN SPECTER

A key statement by the president related to 60 stem cell lines, now expanded to 64, ... But in the i...
ARLEN SPECTER

sort of pawns in the whole operation.
ARLEN SPECTER

It simply wasn't possible to accommodate the schedule that the White House wanted.
ARLEN SPECTER

It is imperative that the White House provide expeditiously those documents it intends to release,
ARLEN SPECTER

Fundraising is very, very time-consuming.
ARLEN SPECTER

Separation of power says the judiciary committee is supposed to confirm qualified judges and then wh...
ARLEN SPECTER

I don't like labels. I think they conceal more than they reveal, sort of like a bikini.
ARLEN SPECTER

But there's no doctrinal basis erosion in Roe, is there?
ARLEN SPECTER

I've never walked out of a room and had a disagreement as to what was said,
ARLEN SPECTER

She said she believes there's a right to privacy (in the Constitution), ... And she believes Griswol...
ARLEN SPECTER

I believe it is important and timely for you to make a full public response on the propriety of your...
ARLEN SPECTER

There's nothing in the First Amendment that even remotely talks about spending money for politic...
ARLEN SPECTER

When we take a look at the budget for the National Institutes of Health at $28 billion, it is, candi...
ARLEN SPECTER

Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns.
ARLEN SPECTER

[Four Democratic votes for Roberts would be] a pleasant surprise, ... they can be tougher on the nex...
ARLEN SPECTER

The best way to reduce the cost of medical care is to reduce the illness.
ARLEN SPECTER

Wait a minute, wait a minute. Sen. Kennedy just propounded a very, very long question. Now let him (...
ARLEN SPECTER

We're not going to start these hearings until you're prepared. And she said November 7th she'd be re...
ARLEN SPECTER

We're facing a daunting workload with a very heavy backlog of controversial and contested judicial n...
ARLEN SPECTER

It is unfair to start the hearings before she's ready,
ARLEN SPECTER

great deal more contentious.
ARLEN SPECTER

I believe the next nomination is going to be a great deal more contentious than the Roberts nominati...
ARLEN SPECTER

resist, if not refuse to confirm, Supreme Court nominees who refuse to answer questions on fundament...
ARLEN SPECTER

My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in Wor...
ARLEN SPECTER

ill-suited to capture the nuance of oral arguments and the sustained attention of the American citiz...
ARLEN SPECTER

As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution shoul...
ARLEN SPECTER

As the record shows, I have supported every one of President Bush's nominees in the Judiciary Commit...
ARLEN SPECTER

We shouldn't be playing second fiddle to South Korea or anyone else,
ARLEN SPECTER

I think it's been a chaotic process, very candidly.
ARLEN SPECTER

It's inexcusable ... clearly and categorically wrong.
ARLEN SPECTER

your adversaries to speculate on this issue to the detriment of your nomination.
ARLEN SPECTER

I'm really sorry that on doctrinal grounds they don't understand that she cannot tip her hand on Roe...
ARLEN SPECTER

this was my case. I had organized, nurtured and developed it. I was the lead plaintiff and had parti...
ARLEN SPECTER

When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capi...
ARLEN SPECTER

White-collar crime convictions are deterrents, I've seen a lot of that. Imprisoning heads of state i...
ARLEN SPECTER

The essence of a democracy is a free electorate.
ARLEN SPECTER

That looks to me as if it may be obstruction of the committee's activities.
ARLEN SPECTER

Wait a minute. They may be misleading, but they are his answers, ... You may finish, Judge Roberts.
ARLEN SPECTER

Why not go after both levels? ... Why not get tough? That's what Sen. Feinstein wants to do, and I t...
ARLEN SPECTER

I'm intrigued by his concept of a dialogue among equals,
ARLEN SPECTER

There's a very decisive bipartisan flavor to this vote,
ARLEN SPECTER

on many key issues such as congressional power; presidential authority; women's rights including abo...
ARLEN SPECTER

This is a matter that requires congressional analysis, ... wise, appropriate taking of private prope...
ARLEN SPECTER

Judge Roberts has projected a very unique persona as he has talked about modesty and humility,
ARLEN SPECTER

I think her record shows very substantial capacity to take on tough assignments and do them well,
ARLEN SPECTER

You don't have the votes in the House of Representatives to overcome a presidential veto.
ARLEN SPECTER

American credibility in the war on terrorism depends on a strong stand against all terrorist acts, w...
ARLEN SPECTER

If enough people would come out the right wing, the extremists couldn't dominate.
ARLEN SPECTER

I think it's been a chaotic process, very candidly, as to what has happened, because of all of the c...
ARLEN SPECTER

I think my independence was a big help to getting Judges Roberts and Alito confirmed, and I think th...
ARLEN SPECTER

When Pat Robertson says there is no constitutional doctrine of separation of church and state, I say...
ARLEN SPECTER

In our social contract, we have provisions that see to it that you take care of people who need some...
ARLEN SPECTER

Is Roe a super-precedent?
ARLEN SPECTER

I believe more precisely she took the position that the American Bar Association should not take a p...
ARLEN SPECTER

We hammered out what I think is a good bill. ... Not a perfect bill, but a good bill.
ARLEN SPECTER

If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured ma...
ARLEN SPECTER

demonstrated that he would take a fair, non-ideological approach.
ARLEN SPECTER

Do you approve of torture?
ARLEN SPECTER

We view these lawsuits as the last resort. The response we've gotten so far from counties was extrem...
DON SPECTER

This is the first report that directly links their practices with a death.
DON SPECTER

We are not utilizing the Iraqi oil for U.S. purposes. We are not asking that the Iraqi oil be used t...
ARLEN SPECTER

[The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision rejected Congress' findings and its] method of reasoning, ... Is t...
ARLEN SPECTER

It's a rarity when someone takes a political risk in Washington today in the public interest.
ARLEN SPECTER

My mother, Lillie Specter, was an angel and totally uninterested in politics.
ARLEN SPECTER

I think it's scandalous that we haven't done more to cure cancer.
ARLEN SPECTER

The solicitor general is sometimes referred to as the 10th Supreme Court justice - a pretty importan...
ARLEN SPECTER

Well, I believe that when you are confirming a United States Supreme Court Justice, that it really i...
ARLEN SPECTER

I think it is inappropriate to ask him head-on if he's going to overturn Roe, but I believe that the...
ARLEN SPECTER

When I supported the stimulus package, I knew that it would not be popular with the Republican Party...
ARLEN SPECTER

The Supreme Court has a very light backlog. They leave a lot of splits among the circuits, a lot of ...
ARLEN SPECTER

My definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I've never lost a match.
ARLEN SPECTER

There was some indecision as to when I was born. My sister said it was 1916. I'd lost my birth c...
MICHAEL GOUGH

You can't escape this feeling of disintegration. The world is fragile. But you also can't le...
MICHAEL SHANNON

You have to always remember who your guest is, and that's who we cater to.
MICHAEL MINA

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
MICHAEL CAINE

I don't think any other holiday embraces the food of the Midwest quite like Thanksgiving. There&...
MICHAEL SYMON

We've certainly learned a lot of lessons from Katrina, from Rita. Rita was better than Katrina. ...
MICHAEL CHERTOFF

There's Jay-Z, who morphs a certain street hustler's cool and indifference into CEO extravag...
MICHAEL PATERNITI

When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I se...
MICHAEL JACKSON

People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't...
MICHAEL JACKSON

Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel.
MICHAEL JACKSON

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straigh...
MICHAEL JACKSON

Well, especially now I come to realize - and then - I would do my schooling which was three hours wi...
MICHAEL JACKSON

Well, you don't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parti...
MICHAEL JACKSON

Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and e...
MICHAEL JACKSON

Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court.
MICHAEL JACKSON

Because I think every child star suffers through this period because you're not the cute and cha...
MICHAEL JACKSON

There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used ...
MICHAEL JACKSON

It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say....
MICHAEL JACKSON

Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the ...
MICHAEL JACKSON

I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am.
MICHAEL JACKSON

But I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to.
MICHAEL JACKSON

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everyt...
MICHAEL JACKSON

I'm happy to be alive, I'm happy to be who I am.
MICHAEL JACKSON

Sound strategy starts with having the right goal.
MICHAEL PORTER

That's one of the great things about Thanksgiving: Football's on!
MICHAEL STRAHAN

I might be 'Candid Camera's number one fan.
MICHAEL CARBONARO

To be able to detect the outbreak of avian flu anywhere in the world is going to require a partnersh...
MICHAEL BURGESS

I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and...
MICHAEL JORDAN

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the...
MICHAEL CONNELLY

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
MICHAEL KORDA

I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and d...
MICHAEL JACKSON

In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War,' as i...
MICHAEL KORDA

I joined Twitter and you read a lot of the comments. You're biting your lip and you want to repl...
MICHAEL OWEN

Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyo...
MICHAEL IGNATIEFF

I'm not good at being static. I have to be climbing a mountain.
MICHAEL OVITZ

It's absolutely wrong that I don't want guys to challenge me. And the people who say that ar...
MICHAEL JORDAN

Do I need my number retired throughout the course of the league to acknowledge what I've done? N...
MICHAEL JORDAN

I've never been afraid to fail.
MICHAEL JORDAN

There is no 'i' in team but there is in win.
MICHAEL JORDAN

I don't want to be the flavor, the passing thing that the girls scream at. I think that it's...
MICHAEL BUBLE

Yauch was a gifted MC.
MICHAEL DIAMOND

Yauch was great at lacking fear.
MICHAEL DIAMOND

I believed, up to last week, that Adam was somehow coming back. But I wouldn't trade that optimi...
MICHAEL DIAMOND

The sport of shooting is my life.
MICHAEL DIAMOND

Becoming an Olympian is the ultimate reward for any athlete.
MICHAEL DIAMOND

Honestly achieved results surpass all others.
MICHAEL DIAMOND

I find that it's best to take one step at a time and cross each bridge as they come to you.
MICHAEL STUHLBARG

I hate leg exercises. I hate one-legged squats. I hate the hurdles and the split squats. I hate all ...
MICHAEL STRAHAN

It is no small thing for an American to be able to go into a fast-food restaurant and to buy a doubl...
MICHAEL POLLAN

Sometimes we spend more efforts with people that are strangers in terms of making an impression than...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS

Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Net...
MICHAEL CAINE

I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily.
MICHAEL JACKSON

What modern humans need help with is escaping from the despair of politics, commerce and media, esca...
MICHAEL LEUNIG

There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS

I'm a big supporter of the Second Amendment. But I think I have a First Amendment right not to b...
MICHAEL NUTTER

In all of my work I'm trying to create a dialogue, in which I want to provoke the recipients, st...
MICHAEL HANEKE

Horror fans need horror, okay? They don't need little worms squirming around going down your thr...
MICHAEL ROOKER

The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle...
MICHAEL LEUNIG

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has established highly specific criteria for the diagnosis of Lyme disease: an acknowledged tick bite, the appearance of a bull's-eye rash, and, for those who don't live in a region where Lyme is common, laboratory evidence of infection.

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