The agency was recently moved and lost a huge part of their staff, they're not going to be as competent as they used to be. The same things is happening to the USDA.
However popular that aphorism is, it isn't actually the definition of insanity.
The former might be a form of the latter, but you can certainly be insane in other ways.
> Insanity is the wrong term, because it would imply repeating something that has already failed.
ie suggesting the opposite of your point; that the term "insanity" is more narrowly defined rather than broadly defined.
No it doesn't. You might be thinking of that meme often miss-attributing that alternative definition as an Einstein wisdom; but that quote is about as accurate as the claim of who said it.
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