“A Ph.D. in microbiology is not necessary to grasp the concept: Clean water is good. Poopy water is bad.”

—  Carl Hiaasen

"Modern world puts evolution into reverse", July 6, 1995 (reprinted in Kick-Ass: Selected Columns)
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journalist, columnist and novelist from the United States 1953

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