"If someone told me in 2016 that in 2026 we would be less prepared for a massive Ebola outbreak, I would have found that hard to believe. Hadn’t we learned our lesson? Could it be simple stupidity, or had some calamity befallen human civilization, limiting our ability to respond"

"I also always like to use the Nobel prizes as an opportunity to highlight how cutting-edge science today is such a collaborative and often international effort."

"Trump’s proposed directive was to create a commission that would review all NIH grants to ensure that they align with Trump’s political agenda. The commission would have the power to veto any grants the president did not like. This is naked Lysenkoism."

"She is talking as if the occasional grifter is the exception rather than the rule, but if she had done a proper investigation she would know the situation is the opposite. Exploitation is core to the industry, it is not incidental."

"Even if you do understand this, it is easy to be overly influenced by their output, which can falsely seem to be objective and definitive – even when they are completely wrong or simply making judgments."

"This is nothing short of a hack into human psychology – our brains are literally not equipped to distinguish things that are actually alive from things that simply act as if they are alive."