I spam-ask this entire c-section, duh: Want me to recommend some science-channel you may or may not know? Cause why not, and also because the learning never ends?
@@MDAdams72668 No, we all mean Science as in 'the real Reality' not that 'flat earther version' of science that you have in youre mind. We mean the thing that bettered the f-ing world, objectively, and the thing that allows you to write silly comments online. That Science.
@@nenmaster5218 Ok Nen here is a question for you If a disease kills far less than 2% of people infected(mostly elderly and/or sickly) AND the "vaccines" only prevent severe illness should we lock down the entire economy and thereby increase depression/overdoses and long term inflation (which will likely cause more people to go hungry and or homeless)
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"The year 2020 will no doubt be a big year." yeah...
There should be some law that 5 actual scientists from at least 2big universities like Harvard have a say in disaster prevention and a fixed spot to address the nation on TV for 15min every week.
Hey ya got to admit, Psychology and Sociology definitely saw a few steps foreword this year. There were many opportunities to observe the extremes of human behavior in a politically and biologically turbulent society. All without the need of consent forms! That is normally one of the greatest hurdles to overcome, but not this year. People were belligerently eager to volunteer their inclusion in these observations. I smell many dissertations on the horizon!
@@what_you_say-_- I wouldn't say non-deadly or non-aggressive. It's definitely mild for the majority, but it's the people who it's not mild to who need support. I mean, any underlying illness makes you just that much more vulnerable. ANY. I promise you, you know someone with high blood pressure. Does that mean that person will die? Not necessarily, but why risk it? Y'know? Not to mention the health problems it can leave a person with after they recover from it. Just because you no longer have covid, doesn't necessarily mean you'll go back to being as healthy as you were. Some people's bodies can't handle it. Some people have heart troubles from having covid, breathing problems, etc. While you walk around outside, in public, it's impossible to know if the person in front of you in line has a condition that'll make them vulnerable or could kill them if you were to unknowingly give them covid. Maybe you yourself have a problem and dont even know it, many people do. So, in retrospect, it's just better to treat it as and think of it as the black plague 2.0. Cause it's better to be overly cautious than none at all. It's very, most definitely, bad. The worst? No. Bad? Yes.
His joke about eating 10,000 cans of baked beans is a good example of how alot of people that complain about a chemical in food or drugs being harmful, tend to ignore the amount of that chemical that needs to be ingested for it to produce harmful effects.
I had a doctor explain to me the difference between treatment and toxicity: dosage. Sadly the vast majority of people think there are good/safe things and bad/toxic things. Everything is toxic in sufficient dosage. Everything is safe in low enough dosage. We need to get this message out there.
@@Lozzie74yeah that is exactly what the problem was when Fukushima released their TREATED radioactive water. People heard the word radioactive and freaked out - not understanding how extremely diluted it was.
The dog sled story makes me tear up every time its mentioned. I grew up with balto as one of my favorite movies, and the fact that it was a true story and the incredible journey the relay teams made and saved so many lives just hits me in the feels every time.
Imagine having Smartphone hooked to Internet during that time )) No one would have known, that you are looking up answers in wiki or google. Everyone would have thought you are genius.. and in every damn field?!
5:59 "the phone that's probably in your pocket right now." Me: looks at phone on my desk and laughs triumphantly 6:01 "or at least somewhere within arms reach" Me: *"triumph.exe" has run into an unexpected error.*
I was taught about Dr John Snow at school, but we were also taught about a brewery in Soho, none of their workers died in the cholera outbreak Dr Snow looked at. They were drinking beer, ie boiled water with hops grains and alcohol, which killed the bacteria. It too pointed to a contaminated water supply causing the disease.
I like that they added the fact ferrets can get the flu. When you're a ferret owner and you have the flu you have to stay away from them or they can get sick ☹
I feel it's worth pointing out that the original Great Race of Mercy to this day holds the record for covering the distance. The one time it really counted, they set a record that hasn't been beaten nearly 100 years after it was set and with more than 45 years of Iditarod racing.
I spam-ask this entire c-section, duh: Want me to recommend some science-channel you may or may not know? Cause why not, and also because the learning never ends?
I'm listening to this while I work, and I just realized how much Michael Aranda's 'teaching voice' reminds me of LeVar Burton's 'teaching voice' on Reading Rainbow. It turns out to be extremely nostalgic. Thank you.
I get all nostalgic when I hear the voice of a now very famous actor. He played a character called Easy Reader on a mid 70s show called the Electric Company, on PBS. "Easy Reader, that's my name. Readin' words: that's my game". Played by none other Morgan Freeman.
Science got me to 2020 by finally finding a surgical procedure to fix my broken digestive system the year I was born with it. Pyloric stenosis didn't have a reliable fix until 1985, coincidentally the year I was born! Now they can treat it medicinally, or with a less invasive surgery. Before 1985 it didn't have a great survival rate.
Thanks for an interesting and informative video. I’m a medical officer at FDA, and especially enjoyed the stories that involved the evolution of our Agency.
My 1st calculator was sold at Sears. It was a scientific calculator, with an LCD display. I got it for my 15th birthday and sold for around $100. All I know was that I promptly tried to forget everything I had learned about using a slide rule. I loved that calculator, it actually got me through the 1st 4 years of college.
I always think about my 5th. grade teacher, when we would ask of we could use a calculator on our tests. "What?! Do you think you will be carrying a calculator around in your pocket all the time when you grow up?" Wish I could go back and whip out my construction master 5 app, is one of my favorites. Even calculates the tread and rise for stairs to the 1/16". And she would point out the fact I can figure discounts and fractions in my head. Do they still teach kids to do math in their head? I know it impresses the hell out of the kids on my life.
I grew up in the era of microcomputers so I have always had access to calculators but I did have to learn how to use a slide rule and was forced to not use one most of the time because teachers are big smart. Anyways I must agree that I attempted to dump that useless info from my brain.
I always love hearing about John Snow because it reminds me of a day in my middle school science class where we got to basically do what he did. We all got to make a map like his using clues given to us by our teacher. It felt like we were solving a murder mystery. I don't remember if we actually learned about John Snow (we definitely learned about cholera that day), but I remember being so proud when we figured out which water pump was infected.
As a TI-83 stan, they didn’t talk nearly enough about all the amazing functions modern calculators have! The stats tools! The graphing! The built in calc equation solvers! My calculator certainly got me to 2020 😂
I was a TI-83 user and it is the ONLY reason I passed my AP Statistics class both terms, and college calc, so many kids in those classes failed because they didn't know how to use the functions, really wish that some of the amazing functions on modern calculators were a bit more common knowledge!
@@Colonelhaydeemew I spam-ask this entire c-section, duh: Want me to recommend some science-channel you may or may not know? Cause why not, and also because the learning never ends?
when I get to HS in had the 86+ so I was the oddball that usually had to tweak the directions because 83 was the standard. (It was hand-me-down from sister, otherwise would have gotten the 83)
@@SimuLord It depends if these vaccines don’t end up being at the forefront of some serious side effects like most of big phamas medicine. I mean they’ve literally broken world records for lawsuits.
I spam-ask this entire c-section, duh: Want me to recommend some science-channel you may or may not know? Cause why not, and also because the learning never ends?
I was way too young when I watched the movie Balto. Story always makes me cry. It's thought that the story of the pied Piper was a dypetheria outbreak, essentially they explain the mass deaths as the children being taken. And when you think about a contagious disease that primarily impacts children. It's easier to say someone took them instead of the truth of remembering so many dead children. The mind does things to cope, rewriting history is one of those ways.
20:05 When you have an incorrect theory already popularized like "bad air" it takes more then a better theory to correct it, to unwind the damage. Any new correlations can be easily dismissed by lack of understanding from old correleations.
interestingly, the words "bad air" in French altered to "malaria" as it was thought that disease spread via bad air. Even more odd, the French word for malaria is paludisme, which has nothing to do with bad air!
This is why I always flick the foreheads of people who talk about the peer review process as though it upholds new discoveries after they prove it true. There is numerous instances in the past and present of scientists blatantly ignoring data or details in the studies they are reviewing just so they don't get knocked off of their high horses. Then I flick them again when they say "well that was then". Human understanding changes, human behavior does not.
To be fair, new data that suggests an old theory is incorrect does very frequently end up to be explanable with the old theory. For example, irregularities in the orbit of Uranus could have (and was, by some) been taken to imply that Newtonian motion was incorrect or incomplete but actually there was just another planet that wasn't accounted for. It's healthy for there to be some inertia to throwing out an established theory.
@@clayxros576 Who the hell goes around flicking scientists for being too sure of themselves? Gotta love these armchair "more-ethical+logical-in-the-light-of-centuries-passed-even-though-I-wasn't-there-to-see-how-it-all-went-down" historical revisionist pundits that think they woulda had the sense+wisdom to do things any differently. You know you're a major gold digger, and what you're really talkin' about is booger flickin' and none of these serious career experimentalists would've allowed your judgemental nose and fingers anywhere within range... Time will make fools of all of us as well, so don't pretend you're immune to the ravages of progress and the fools it makes of those who don't get it right the first or millionth time, or whatever the surplus of educated yet largely useless dickheads may happen to be like a century or two from now. Oh, to have too much free time on your hands and no direction or purpose. What a glorious time we live in, all the science has been perfected + we live in a utopia that affords us the time- as a way to pass the time- to ridicule those who came before that actually gave it a shot. What a buncha goofs. Yes, I'm fully conscious of the fact that I too am being judgmental and wasting time and brain cells and oxygen. But you started it. Quick flicking people, whether in reality, or in your scientist policeman imagination, or just for target practice. I thought we'd evolved beyond that sort of behavior.
@@eYeZiQ I mean, you're the nose gold digger if you think the science is perfected or people have moved on from the older less than ethical methods. Not sure you even read my comment either. My statement had nothing to do with policing scientists, I said "people" numerous times. I flick the forehead of "people" who think everything is perfected and above mistakes or bias. Oh, as a matter of fact. *Flick*
I spam-ask this entire c-section, duh: Want me to recommend some science-channel you may or may not know? Cause why not, and also because the learning never ends?
When i was a kid i was one of the first kids in USA To be put on Retlyn. In the ARMY. I was in the trials of painrelief vicodine when it first came out.
How did it affect your life? I ask because I got hooked on oxycontin for years after I broke my hip and my doctor prescribed it. Yes he told me it wasn't habit forming.
The Nothing to Sneeze section is really fascinating I love how much people improved the scientific processes over time. It's crazy to see how far we've come but the struggle and thoroughness it has taken to arrive where we are today.
I knew that the movie Balto was based on real events, but I didn't realize that the time frame was even close to accurate. Making that trip in just over 5 days in those conditions is just insane. I feel bad for the dogs that died making the journey, but they saved so many lives. I hope all of those teams received recognition for there contribution.
Ashlee Knowlton as soon as I heard about the dog sleds I knew it was about balto, and I was just waiting to hear his name. My great grandma survived only because of him. She was one of the more sick kids in that village.
Love the free plugs to other great channels on the t-shirts! Love the way science community overcomes competitive rivalry and jealousy to support each other.
Having heard of the 'real' John Snow in university, I cannot emphasise enough how important the development of sanitation in major cities was. We all know that numerous people died due to the lack of sewage systems (and there have been roughly 7 major cholera worldwide outbreaks in the last 200 years). Although you might think that cholera infections are not as prevalent anymore it is estimated that each year there are still 1.3 million to 4.0 million cases of cholera, and 21 000 to 143 000 deaths worldwide (would really love to make a video about that)! I really hope that we could raise more awareness for this issue. Feel free to ask me anything about this topic or stem cells (since I am conducting research in this field)!
Odd question then: what did Snow die of? Ooh! Stem cells! Neat! Any ideas on how likely they will be used in medical therapy: eg. Organ regeneration? I heard it was being investigated but not used in medicine yet.
@@ahumanwithaface1595 Apparently he died after suffering a stroke in 1858 (I just looked it up on Encyclopaedia Britannica). One of my favourite questions! Many research groups aim to grow tissues from so-called induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). These stem cells are produced from skin cells and could be derived from the patient itself in order to generate transplants which are not rejected by the immune system of the patient (immune cells normally think that tranplants of other people are foreign invaders and try to destroy them). Although it will likely take decades until we might be able to routinely generate tissues and organs from iPSCs which are safe for transplantation there are currently some first clinical trials. One trial (by a company called ViaCyte) aims to generate insulin-secreting beta cells to treat type 1 diabetes patients while a group in Japan tries to restore the sight of elderly people by using nerve cells which have been generated from iPSCs. Let's see how the trials go!
FUN FACT: In medieval times kings had certain servants called APOTHECARIES, whose sole role and purpose was to taste test plates of food for poison, before said plates were served to the king/queen, to make sure the food was safe for the king to eat. To become an apothecary one had to go through a long and rigorous *physical training* phase, each day gradually exposing their own body to tiny bit repeated doses of poisons commonly used by criminals trying to poison royalty, so that they would eventually become physically immune to the posons. It was a very long, not to mention EXCRUCIATINGLY PAINFUL ENDEAVOR, BUT SOME PPL WERE SO DEDICATED AND LOYAL TO THEIR KING/QUEEN, THEY WERE WILLING TO GO THROUGH THIS SUFFERING TO BECOME AN EFFECTIVE APOTHECARY. I think apothecaries would have been perfect candidates to become part of the "poison squad", as they are immune to most poisons and can safely test foods for others who can't
My dad actually has one of those ancient calculators, inherited from my grandfather. He grew up figuring out how to get the calculator to print out basic pictures, likely wasting much paper and ink in the process. I guess it ended up being worth it, because my dad tells me that that experience is what inspired him to become a computer programmer. He's a casual collector of this really interesting, now obsolete tech, such as monochromatic computer monitors with only green or only amber LCD displays, floppy discs, and the empty husk of a broken rotary phone.
I have no doubt you think that BUT, you easily can make a difference locally. Be THAT person that helps Folks, You won't end up with National recognition, but when you finally kick off decades from now, there will be thousands who bless your name and remember your footprint. Just BE the person that helps. It's that simple.
I agree with Kerry, everyone makes a difference. I’m a teacher, I probably won’t be remembered as some huge person with major achievements. But I can enable the others around me to do their best as well, and that’s still providing a very valuable service to society, and my kids will hopefully remember me and what I teach them. Life isn’t just about being remembered. Just be a good person, and the people who matter will remember you.
All these people wanting to make a difference and I’d just sit back in my couch as I toss a water bottle in the recycling bin. Every little bit helps right?
In Australia we use thalidomide as a form of chemotherapy... when I was an intern pharmacist I got a kick out of seeing the no pregnancy warning all over the packaging and even on the individual capsules!
I kinda want to be a time traveler and go back in time, find these circuit designers, and go "Oh, that's nice..." and pop open a modern gaming laptop just to see the expressions on their faces...
"Like that phones thats probably in your pocket right now, ro at least withing arms reach." Micheal, I'm watching this very video on that phone. In my hands.
Gigi T they mispronounce quite a few words... common when reading or studying a topic without hearing it actually spoken... Occasionally it could he locality though. UK pronunciations flex different vowels than American and it can sound weird if you haven’t heard it both ways
@@josephbargo5024 one think I hate about English is the lack of pronunciation standards. In Japanese, kana will have the same pronunciation no matter what (except for a couple standard grammatical exceptions). す is always "su", し is always "shi", すし is always sushi, no exceptions.
John Snow has the greatest honour one can be given in England. He has a pub named after him. It's in Soho, about five minutes away from Piccadily Circus tube station.
OMG I guess you have to explain this to people. I lived it. Every form of accounting from pen and paper, to adding machines, to mainframes, to desktop calculators, to mini computers with batching, DOS accounting then windows accounting and now it's all in the cloud.
WOW!I learned much faster and clearer about organic chemistry then I did in my biochem class. Thanks Stephen and scischow for that excellent explanation with Thalidomide!
The Massengill company got into trouble for calling their poisonous medication an elixir when it did not contain ethanol. If they had put ethanol into it maybe it would not have been so toxic. Ethanol is a competitive inhibitor for ethylene glycol. When one of my cats drank some antifreeze the vet put him on an alcohol drip. The poor kitty was hilarious stumbling around due to his intoxication, but he did survive.
I’m sure they probably tried EtOH without success. So many drugs, especially big complex molecules, are notoriously hard to get into solution. In grad school I worked a bit with the anti cancer drug dacarbazine, which was only soluble to ~10mg/mL in citric acid, mannitol, and something else. Resulting pH was 3-4, equivalent to apple cider vinegar and not conducive to cell culture, so I… picked a different drug to study. Point is, they probably didn’t set out to hurt people-the level of ignorance back then was just beyond belief by current standards.
If you enjoyed learning about the Poison Squads and want to delve deeper, I HIGHLY recommend *The Poison Eaters* by Gail Jarrow. It covers this and more, following the development of the Food and Drug Administration. I know that sounds awfully dry, but I hate history and I read through this (pretty short) book in one sitting.
For my high school electronics class, we each had a TI-30 Calculator and it used a 9 volt battery. This was, of course, back in 1982. Yeah I'm old lol.
Must admit that the Balto sled-race every year is not only a great way to remember those that took on the extremely challenging, life-saving mission, but a fantastic way to publicise the vaccination-scheme!
Oh God I had autoplay on while cleaning, and apparently I started watching video before, I sneezed and he immediately said "funny you should mention sneezing". That was mildly terrifying .
So thankful for my 9th grade chemistry teacher for making me love science. This video is awesome, I definitely am trying to make some science videos as well :)
haha i was watching this episode with my 7 month old son and he sneezed....then as soon as he sneezed the guy on the video said "Funny you mention sneezing!" haha ...well i thought it was funny, but i don't get too much social interactions being a stay at home mom ....but i wouldnt have it any other way :P love these videos, i learn a lot from them!! thank you guys
Add the words "...then someone said 'but that will interfere with the systemic evil that I personally profit from in the short term,' and 10,000 more people died in horrifying pain" and you've got a pretty succinct telling of modern history.
