Elemental

“One of the new things in this administration is, if you don’t know the answer, don’t guess. Just say you don’t know the answer. . . . The idea that you can get up here and talk about what you know, what the evidence is, what the science is, and know that's it, let the science speak — it is somewhat of a liberating feeling.” 

—Anthony Fauci, director of National Institute of Allergies & Infectious Diseases, in White House press briefing, “Dr. Fauci Calls Speaking Freely About Science a ‘Liberating Feeling,’” Associated Press, Jan. 21, 2021. (Thanks to alert WORDster David Eaton)

• Editorial Comment: Other reports say Dr. Fauci has been breaking into sudden unrestrained recitations of the periodic table of elements.

BONUS: Tom Lehrer’s “The Elements,” Copenhagen, 1967.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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