Quote of The Day

 "The first COVID-19 vaccine is not expected to be ready for clinical trials before the end of the year." From the journal Infection, Genetics and Evolution, April 19, 2020. 

Quote of the Day

 “I realized early on that when you deal in the heady company of presidents, cabinet secretaries and members of Congress and are asked for advice, you must be prepared to disappoint people with the truth and risk never getting asked back into the inner circle. I accepted that concept. Science is truth, and as a scientist I told the truth.” -- Anthony Fauci, in a speech accepting 2007 Lasker Award, as quoted by UC Davis medical student Samantha Wong in her prize-winning essay, "Science as a Voice of Reason."

Quote of the Day

Jonathan Shestack, in 2013 and then a patient advocate member of the governing board of the California stem cell agency, speaking about patient advocates appearing before the board:

"We have a responsibility to look those people in the face.... So I would like to be very careful as we retool that process to make it neater and less chaotic and not upsetting to the press or to people in Sacramento, but to understand that is part of our responsibility, to look at those people and listen to them and take some of what they have to say into consideration."

From a meeting of the CIRM board Jan. 23, 2013

Quote of the Day

"In science, true hope is clear-eyed and brings a tight focus on the barriers and potential setbacks that exist along the path to desired results." 

-- Jerome Groopman, in his New Yorker article titled "The Long Game of Coronavirus Research."

Quote of the Day: 'Immunity to Science'

“We’re now in this position where scientific information is treated as something that you believe or don’t believe because of your partisan leanings. We’ve become a society that has developed an immunity to science, that has said, well none of these guys can be believed.”
 -- Lucy Jones, seismologist, in Los Angeles Times