just saw someone saying trust in science because life expectacy in middle ages was 35. life expectancy was not 35. infant mortality lowered expectancy a good bit (not that much!) but once you got past infancy people lived for spans we'd recognize today for the most part.
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I mean this is exactly what I think Noah is talking about, this impulse to give credit to expertise and say if something improved in society it's because a bunch of smart people got together and planned it, which is much less common than people think
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yes! we think, "scientists figured out germ theory so people invented indoor plumbing," when in fact it's more like, "people long wished for better indoor plumbing because shit smells, and managed to get it at about the same time as germ theory developed"
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Economic changes brought people into cities. Crowded cities caused an accumulation of waste, which propelled advances in sanitation.
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Dr. John Snow, stopped an 1854 cholera epidemic in London due to contaminated water supplies, fighting false claims it was airborne, effected change using data and discovery of the source(s). GT was 1861 by Pasteur. Is that not science?
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