Hugh Downs

Person · Open Library

Works

21

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1921-02-14

Active to

2020-07-01

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

60

Total plays

281

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. ROBINS-I: a tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies of interventions

   · 2016 · cited 14,669x

2. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

   · 2018 · cited 10,814x

3. Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans

   · 2016 · cited 8,989x

4. The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans

   · 2020 · cited 8,915x

5. Mutations of the BRAF gene in human cancer

   · 2002 · cited 8,579x

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Quotes

• “Such close observations of apes and birds and dolphins remind us that humanity is part of a great animal kingdom. All species within this kingdom differ from one another in significant ways, to be sure, but the kingdom does not seem to be organized on the superior/inferior hierarchy. Species are merely different from one another; they are not better than, nor more or less advanced than, each other. The core experience of all animal life is strikingly similar.”
• “This country is a one-party country. Half of it is called Republican and half is called Democrat. It doesn't make any difference. All the really good ideas belong to the Libertarians.”
• “In today's anti-drug climate, people don't want to hear about the commercial potential of marijuana. The reason is that the flowering top of a female hemp plant contains a drug. But from 1842 through the 1890s a powerful concentrated extract of marijuana was the second most prescribed drug in the United States. In all that time the medical literature didn't list any of the ill effects claimed by today's drug warriors.”
• “If hemp could supply the energy needs of the United States, its value would be inestimable. Now that the drug czar is in final retreat, America has an opportunity to, once and for all, say farewell to the Exxon Valdez, Saddam Hussein and a prohibitively expensive brinkmanship in the desert sands of Saudi Arabia.”
• “A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.”
• “I've always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself.”

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Wikidata facts

Image

Hugh Downs 1972.JPG

Number of children

2

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