Thinking of my homeboy Edward Jenner tonight...
The father of vaccination, he had his statue removed from Trafalgar Square after pressure from anti-vaxxers.
We should return it to let the world know the UK isn't following the US back to polio, diptheria and measles.
The father of vaccination, he had his statue removed from Trafalgar Square after pressure from anti-vaxxers.
We should return it to let the world know the UK isn't following the US back to polio, diptheria and measles.
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We're not America. We don't follow America.
Restore our pride and ignore the hypocrites.
Was opposed by anti-vaxers but 1850s variety.
Liked comment - physician Frederick W Headland 1862 - that only military statues remained in Trafalgar Sq "because they killed their fellow-creatures, whereas he [Jenner] only saved them"
It was a basic ignorance.
That's not the same problem as the current antixvax movement is it.
You might find this, for example, from the BMJ.
https://www.bmj.com/content/340/bmj.c1582.full
I thought it was removed because he wasn't a noteable military figure?
We've recently been through a pandemic, we don't know how many of us were saved by new vaccines. Does anyone know of a campaign?
Wakefield. The one who started the whole "MMR causes autism" bullshit.
I'm ashamed to say, he's British.
It was moved to Kensington Gardens in 1862 as a result of pressure from anti-vaccinationists. There is a campaign to have it reinstated in Trafalgar Square.
1862
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Edward_Jenner,_London