frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 5 days 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-square130fedilinkarrow-up190arrow-down112
arrow-up178arrow-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 · 5 days agomessage-square130fedilink
minus-squarefrightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up19·5 days 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-squareRobotToaster@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·5 days agoVariolation isn’t vaccination though. AFAIK Jenner did invent vaccination.
minus-squareZak@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·5 days agoIn 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-up8·5 days agoIn France we only know Louis Pasteur, first time i’m hearing about Edward Jenner
minus-squareyermaw@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 days agoSame here in the UK, but Alexander Fleming
minus-squareObi@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 days agoPour être honnête je connais pasteur pour (choquant), la pasteurisation. Cela dit ma réponse a “qui a inventé la vaccination” aurait été “euuuuuh”.
minus-squarespicy pancake@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 days agoEven 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
Same here in the UK, but Alexander Fleming
Pour être honnête je connais pasteur pour (choquant), la pasteurisation. Cela dit ma réponse a “qui a inventé la vaccination” aurait été “euuuuuh”.
Even I didn’t know about that! That’s really cool ty for sharing