the main scientist who developed mRNA tech is a Hungarian immigrant. almost nobody believed in her idea, she clung to the academic fringe for decades making peanuts www.nytimes.com/2021/04/08/h...
Collaborating with devoted colleagues, Dr. Kariko laid the groundwork for the mRNA vaccines turning the tide of the pandemic.
Republicans lost the 2022 Arizona AG race by the margin of how many of their own voters they killed with antivax propaganda split-ticket.org/2023/02/05/d...
beginning to understand why so many medievals thought the printing press was a disasterbeginning to understand why so many medievals thought the printing press was a disaster
This goes to a pet theory of mine that we were never really able to move on from the pandemic partly because we never celebrated its many heroes. This isn’t to say the threat is over but the incredible work to get us through the worst part has mostly been swept under the rug.
Why academics usually suck