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“I love that he’s talking German with me. Having someone speak in German on the team feels good,” said Tillman, who quickly added what’s become the rote reaction to Son.

"It's pointing out some rote number that means nothing," he said, insisting that Meta's research is being "pruned and manipulated."

Friedland doesn’t waste time letting us know she has more on her mind than rote family drama or a spotlight on medical suffering.

Some of the pieces in the book written before this real-life catastrophe, though, suffer from the rote world-weariness of the columnist accustomed to griping to order.

If one looks past Kennedy's rote words to his actions, a much different picture emerges, and it becomes clear that he thinks vaccines are for weak, lazy parents.