Deborah Blum Quote
From almost every standpoint ethyl alcohol must be regarded as the most important poison with which medical men and jurists have to deal, Gettler wrote in a paper, listing a seemingly endless record of fatalities. No other poison causes so many deaths or leads to or intensifies so many diseases, both physical and mental, as does [this] alcohol in the many forms in which it is taken.
Deborah Blum
From almost every standpoint ethyl alcohol must be regarded as the most important poison with which medical men and jurists have to deal, Gettler wrote in a paper, listing a seemingly endless record of fatalities. No other poison causes so many deaths or leads to or intensifies so many diseases, both physical and mental, as does [this] alcohol in the many forms in which it is taken.
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About Deborah Blum
As a science writer for the Sacramento Bee, Blum wrote a series of articles examining the professional, ethical, and emotional conflicts between scientists who use animals in their research and animal rights activists who oppose that research. Titled "The Monkey Wars," the series won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting.