The Trial of John Snow "Yes, your honor, I did indeed remove the handle from the Broad Street Pump." "Yes, I realize now it is immaterial that cholera is waterborne, not miasmatic." "Yes, your honor, I plead guilty to directing people to believe one idea over another regarding health outcomes." - ThreadSky

carlbergstrom.com • 22 days ago

The Trial of John Snow

"Yes, your honor, I did indeed remove the handle from the Broad Street Pump."

"Yes, I realize now it is immaterial that cholera is waterborne, not miasmatic."

"Yes, your honor, I plead guilty to directing people to believe one idea over another regarding health outcomes."

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ottermagically.bsky.social•22 days ago

Epidemiological Lysenkoism.

drlucybuykx.bsky.social•22 days ago

"any contracts to fight misinformation or disinformation" ?!?!

so they want to flood people with any old bat shit and hope that the education system enables people to distinguish information from misinformation .... don't know where to start on that one

maritimetexas.bsky.social•22 days ago

“That’s not true. We’re cutting the education system, too.”

inklake.com•22 days ago

E pur si mouve.

maritimetexas.bsky.social•22 days ago

An under-appreciated hero. Frustrating that my university’s monument to the greats of medicine — Galen, Harvey, Curie — doesn’t include John Snow.

phrynethorn.bsky.social•21 days ago

Bit cruel to freeze them in carbonite though.

grumpyoldscientist.bsky.social•22 days ago

It’s kind of interesting how a lot of this devolves to the pandemic. Who was wrong, who was right, how serious it actually was. I wonder where some of these folks actually were or whether the actual severity has somehow been washed out of their brains. The resentment is monumental.

fwordleproblems.bsky.social•22 days ago

"You savants! You think you know all! You, John Snow, know nothing!"

christian-s-warren.bsky.social•21 days ago

District Attorney: You know nothing, John Snow.

dr-amykate.bsky.social•21 days ago

WTAF???????

fairecomments.bsky.social•22 days ago

You need to add a part where the British government spent millions of pounds supporting Snow's research before they decided to try him for removing the pump handle.