So When the Vaccine for Climate-Change-Caused Yellow Fever Is Rationed, Trumpies Go to the Back of the Line

Dr. Walter Reed was a government employee.  A government-employed scientist.  A government-employed scientist using government funding to put an end to a millenias-old scourge that killed millions until government-funded scientific research attacked it.

 

Charlie Pierce:

Reed's discovery of its source ranks in medical history just a little bit behind the eradication of smallpox. But it never really went away—it killed almost 350 people in Angola last year. One of the reasons that outbreak got out of hand is that there happens to be a worldwide shortage of the vaccine against Yellow Fever. Can we have a show of hands from everyone who thinks the current administration is prepared to have epidemic disease land on its doorstep?

Who to Thank

This giving your invisible sky wizard friend credit for what is actually accomplished by experts who went to school for a decade and practiced for several more just makes me insane.

Divine Irony:

What You Don't See

Wonkette:

Triumph of Science

No, your invisible sky wizard didn't do this. Can't do this. Doesn't exist.

Divine Irony:

timothydelaghetto:

linrenzo:

malformalady:

Naomi Elishuv had played for a number of orchestras, including Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, but was forced to stop performing professionally two decades ago when she began suffering from a condition called essential tremor. During the procedure which was performed under local anaesthetic, surgeons asked Elishuv to play so her brain was active. The footage shows Elishuv shaking and struggling to play the violin before she is wheeled into surgery. Surgeons are then seen operating on her brain behind a huge plastic curtain. As soon as the procedure is complete, the violinist’s hands become steady, and she is able to play unhindered for the first time in 20 years.

God

Wow

Science!
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