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by jp555 2150 days ago
“When you mix politics and science, you get politics.” — John M. Barry

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Influenza

2 comments

As far as I can tell, that quote does not appear in the cited book.

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-shutd...

Ah nice thx!
As with mixing ice cream with 1% of s