Raina MacIntyre > Quotes

“The democratisation of knowledge is more valuable than the democratisation of biology.”
― Raina MacIntyre, Dark Winter: An insider’s guide to pandemics and biosecurity

“The American Biological Safety Association’s catalogue”
― Raina MacIntyre, Dark Winter: An insider's guide to pandemics and biosecurity

“ventilation, safe indoor air,”
― Raina MacIntyre, Dark Winter: An insider's guide to pandemics and biosecurity

“In both the Sverdlovsk and SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks, initial reports attributed them to animals in the markets, with scientists zealously spruiking natural origins.”
― Raina MacIntyre, Dark Winter: An insider's guide to pandemics and biosecurity

“The bulk of the letters in support of Butler suggested that scientists, by simple virtue of being scientists, warrant special treatment compared to other people accused of crimes and should be allowed a lower standard of conduct, and that their freedoms should not be impinged upon.”
― Raina MacIntyre, Dark Winter: An insider's guide to pandemics and biosecurity

“We should not infantilise the community using ‘fear of causing panic’ as a convenient excuse to sidestep truth.”
― Raina MacIntyre, Dark Winter: An insider’s guide to pandemics and biosecurity

“It is likely there has been some cover-up”
― Raina MacIntyre, Dark Winter: An insider's guide to pandemics and biosecurity

“All it takes for a lab accident to occur is human error. And human error is exceedingly common.”
― Raina MacIntyre, Dark Winter: An insider's guide to pandemics and biosecurity

“It was clear there were many more cases than initially suspected, and that it was easily transmitted from person to person.”
― Raina MacIntyre, Dark Winter: An insider's guide to pandemics and biosecurity

“LAB LEAKS AND MISHAPS ARE MORE COMMON THAN you may realise.”
― Raina MacIntyre, Dark Winter: An insider's guide to pandemics and biosecurity

“In future, it is likely we will face a substantial burden of COVID-related chronic disease and disability.”
― Raina MacIntyre, Dark Winter: An insider's guide to pandemics and biosecurity

“Being able to identify and analyse unnatural outbreaks is essential for the effective management of epidemics.”
― Raina MacIntyre, Dark Winter: An insider's guide to pandemics and biosecurity

“a recurrent pattern of failure to recognise the facts, a denial in the face of facts, or a minimisation of serious unnatural outbreaks.”
― Raina MacIntyre, Dark Winter: An insider's guide to pandemics and biosecurity

“In medicine, we start from the assumption that every outbreak is natural. We are not taught in medical school or in public health training to question the origins of outbreaks, only to respond, treat and control them.”
― Raina MacIntyre, Dark Winter: An insider's guide to pandemics and biosecurity

“a former colleague said, ‘Scientists are a weird bunch. They’re willing to take the [funding] … but don’t like the idea of following all the rules.”
― Raina MacIntyre, Dark Winter: An insider's guide to pandemics and biosecurity

“Pacific Eclipse’,”
― Raina MacIntyre, Dark Winter: An insider's guide to pandemics and biosecurity

“When it comes to medical research, we tend to think of scientists and doctors as having impeccable character. But character cannot be imbued by the award of a PhD or medical degree.”
― Raina MacIntyre, Dark Winter: An insider's guide to pandemics and biosecurity

“In 2011 a National Academies of Sciences expert panel concluded that the scientific evidence was not conclusive enough to point to Ivins as the perpetrator.”
― Raina MacIntyre, Dark Winter: An insider's guide to pandemics and biosecurity

“without a single contribution from health experts.”
― Raina MacIntyre, Dark Winter: An insider's guide to pandemics and biosecurity