2018 in Quotes

From the effects of political upheaval on research to claims of gene-edited babies, the year has been a tumultuous one for the scientific community.

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ABOVE: US Army Sgt. Rodrigo Estrada of the California Army National Guard’s 649th Engineer Company, 579th Engineer Battalion, 49th Military Police Brigade, from Chico, California, leads a team conducting search and debris clearing operations following devastating wildfires in Paradise.
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Heather Sher, a radiologist in Broward County, Florida, writing in The Atlantic about treating victims from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who were shot with an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle (February 22)

Ivanka Savic, a neuroscientist at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, speaking to The Scientist about the quest to find the biological mechanisms underpinning gender dysphoria (March 1)

—Science comedian Brian Malow speaking to a crowd in Raleigh at the 2018 March for Science, a smaller affair than last year’s landmark event
(April 14)

—Robert Green, a medical geneticist and professor at Harvard Medical School, speaking to Buzzfeed after data from online genetic database GEDmatch was used to help identify ...

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