"I think, in terms of the media, journalists need to do a much better job of asking people they interview about conflicts of interest and then reporting them."

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Source : "The Food Industry's Influence In Nutrition Research". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. September 17, 2016.

Michael F. Jacobson

#Jobs Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Media Quotes

“The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed.”
“Jeff Smith was the Julia Child of my generation. When his television show, 'The Frugal Gourmet,' made its debut on PBS in the 1980s, it conveyed such genuine enthusiasm for cooking that I was moved for the first time to slap down cold cash for a collection of recipes.”
“Enthusiasm, like the breath of God, transforms everything.”
“Afloat.We move: Delicious! Ah, What else is like the gondola?”
“I'm a skeptic. ...Global Warming it's become a new religion. You're not supposed to be against Global Warming. You have basically no choice. And I tell you how many scientists support that. But the number of scientists is not important. The only thing that's important is if the scientists are correct; that's the important part.”
“I couldn't say my own name when I was 12.”
“It's better to be kind than to be right.”
“Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.”

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