Nice story but you're overlooking the fact that all the older examples you used are, in other places used as examples of a failure to use science.
Nobody tested the food safety of plastics back then. Nobody tested the efficacy of handwashing, they just relied on "tradition". Frankly, medicine is full of established professionals who have dissed new ideas without actually using the scientific method to test them.
I am glad I didn't die of Polio; lots of my generation did. Whooping Cough, Tetanus, Diptheria.
The problem with all these diseases is that vaccination has been so successful, we barely remember they exist.
Nice story but you're overlooking the fact that all the older examples you used are, in other places used as examples of a failure to use science.
Nobody tested the food safety of plastics back then. Nobody tested the efficacy of handwashing, they just relied on "tradition". Frankly, medicine is full of established professionals who have dissed new ideas without actually using the scientific method to test them.
I am glad I didn't die of Polio; lots of my generation did. Whooping Cough, Tetanus, Diptheria.
The problem with all these diseases is that vaccination has been so successful, we barely remember they exist.