frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 7 个月前What 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-up168arrow-down19
arrow-up159arrow-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 · 7 个月前message-square151fedilink
minus-squarefrightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·7 个月前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!
minus-squareRobotToaster@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·7 个月前Variolation isn’t vaccination though. AFAIK Jenner did invent vaccination.
minus-squareZak@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·7 个月前In the original sense of exposing people to vaccina (cowpox virus), it is not. In the modern sense, it’s an attenuated vaccine.
minus-squaresous-merde@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up6·7 个月前In France we only know Louis Pasteur, first time i’m hearing about Edward Jenner
minus-squareObi@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 个月前Pour être honnête je connais pasteur pour (choquant), la pasteurisation. Cela dit ma réponse a “qui a inventé la vaccination” aurait été “euuuuuh”.
minus-squareyermaw@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 个月前Same here in the UK, but Alexander Fleming
minus-squarespicy pancake@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 个月前Even I didn’t know about that! That’s really cool ty for sharing
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!
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.
In France we only know Louis Pasteur, first time i’m hearing about Edward Jenner
Pour être honnête je connais pasteur pour (choquant), la pasteurisation. Cela dit ma réponse a “qui a inventé la vaccination” aurait été “euuuuuh”.
Same here in the UK, but Alexander Fleming
Even I didn’t know about that! That’s really cool ty for sharing