Speaking of Science

August 2014's selection of notable quotes


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HOT ZONE: Two medical staff carry a weak patient, who has been in contact with people infected with Ebola, to be admitted to a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Ebola treatment center in Kailahun, Sierra Leone. SYLVAIN CHERKAOUI/COSMOS

Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the codiscoverer of the Ebola virus, talking to CNN about the current Ebola epidemic that has claimed more than 500 lives in West Africa between March and July (July 3)

—Médecins Sans Frontières emergency coordinator Anja Wolz,
on the aid group’s efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak racing across West Africa (July 11)

—New York University psychologist Gary Marcus, in a New York Times opinion piece about the challenges involved with conducting research in neuroscience (July 11)

—Michel Sartori, an entomologist at the Museum of Zoology in Lausanne, Switzerland, and coauthor of a recent Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences report about the results of DNA tests on 30 hair ...

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