frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 2 months agoWhat have you heard people say that screams "I have lived my life in a Westernised bubble and have no idea how the world is" ?message-squaremessage-square151fedilinkarrow-up138arrow-down16
arrow-up132arrow-down1message-squareWhat have you heard people say that screams "I have lived my life in a Westernised bubble and have no idea how the world is" ?frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 2 months agomessage-square151fedilink
minus-squarefrightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 months agoI have one for this! I once asked someone “In school, who were you taught invented vaccination?” I thought she’d say Edward Jenner. In fact it was well-known in West Africa and the Ottoman Empire a century before Jenner (PDF) She said George Washington!
minus-squaresous-merde@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 months agoIn France we only know Louis Pasteur, first time i’m hearing about Edward Jenner
minus-squareyermaw@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoSame here in the UK, but Alexander Fleming
minus-squareRobotToaster@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoVariolation isn’t vaccination though. AFAIK Jenner did invent vaccination.
minus-squareZak@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoIn the original sense of exposing people to vaccina (cowpox virus), it is not. In the modern sense, it’s an attenuated vaccine.
I have one for this!
I once asked someone “In school, who were you taught invented vaccination?”
I thought she’d say Edward Jenner. In fact it was well-known in West Africa and the Ottoman Empire a century before Jenner (PDF)
She said George Washington!
In France we only know Louis Pasteur, first time i’m hearing about Edward Jenner
Same here in the UK, but Alexander Fleming
Variolation isn’t vaccination though. AFAIK Jenner did invent vaccination.
In the original sense of exposing people to vaccina (cowpox virus), it is not. In the modern sense, it’s an attenuated vaccine.