It’s a good basic axiom that if you take a quart of ice-cream and a quart of dog feces and mix ’em together the result will taste more like the latter than the former. That’s the problem with the U.N. - Mark Steyn
There’s an older saying that applies here, IMO:
“If you mix a tablespoon of wine with a quart of sewage, you have a quart of sewage. If you mix a tablespoon of sewage with a quart of wine, you have a quart of sewage.”