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Whether he was asked to help because of this anomaly, or had planned on assisting anyway, the Mayo Clinic’s Dr. Edward Rosenow, proponent of the poliomyelitic streptococcus bacteria, arrived in Los Angeles and made clear they weren’t
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“Humans: fast machines that serve the purpose of slow genes.’ Most right-thinking people would agree that we are not to be trusted with our own destiny and are glad things are the way they are. Our history should be a salutary lesson held at the forefronts of our minds when we consider these matters. Nowadays you do not see such bloody resolution to events as was seen in the past. I mean, you don’t see the machines killing each other, do you?”
― Gridlinked
― Gridlinked
“Whether he was asked to help because of this anomaly, or had planned on assisting anyway, the Mayo Clinic’s Dr. Edward Rosenow, proponent of the poliomyelitic streptococcus bacteria, arrived in Los Angeles and made clear they weren’t finding the poliovirus simply “because it wasn’t there.”79”
― The Moth in the Iron Lung: A Biography of Polio
― The Moth in the Iron Lung: A Biography of Polio
“Hugh Trevor-Roper called Operation Mincemeat “the most spectacular single episode53 in the history of deception.”
― Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
― Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
“It all came together for me one day when I tried to imagine the whole thing from the point of view of Osama bin Laden. Here he had gone through all the trouble of attacking New York City”
― The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire
― The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire
“No one knows how much of this disease is polio—nearly all adults—nurses and doctors still coming down—much pain and weakness—very few deaths—not nearly the amount of paralysis that one expects. So I’m covering the possibility of this being a new or somewhat different virus.80”
― The Moth in the Iron Lung: A Biography of Polio
― The Moth in the Iron Lung: A Biography of Polio
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