Another example: People knew about infection by contact with the infected for thousands of years prior to germ theory being proved.
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Replying to @TheWeaseKing @nberlat and
Semmelweis was trying to convince doctors to wash their hands in the 1850s!
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Replying to @TWLadyGrey @TheWeaseKing and
right, but through trial and error I believe, not because he had a well developed understanding of germs.
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Replying to @nberlat @TheWeaseKing and
I think we are crossing plots here. My assumption is a 19th century doctor was aware of how the scientific method works and it probably shaped his thinking.
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Replying to @TWLadyGrey @TheWeaseKing and
this is absolutely false! the scientific method is a modern day invention and historians and philosophers of science generally believe it has little to do with how science works!
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Replying to @nberlat @TWLadyGrey and
The "scientific method" you're taught in school is this retroactive generalization turning something very messy and complex in real life into a "method", it's inaccurate the way anyone naming a "method" for art or writing would be
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat and
What are you basing any of these statements on? Because evidence points to the contrary.
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Replying to @TWLadyGrey @nberlat and
This is history of science and/or philosophy of science 101 stuff
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat and
So what you’re saying is all of Europe gave poor people indoor plumbing because the poor people didn’t like the smell of poop.
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Replying to @TWLadyGrey @nberlat and
I mean yeah, actually "Public health" as a discipline didn't exist John Snow breaking the handle of the Broad Street pump is hailed in history books as the "moment that gave birth to epidemiology" and that happened in 1854
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It wasn't a centrally planned thing, it was a consequence of economic growth Everyone moving into the cities in the first place was *terrible* for public health and in many cases the plumbing actually made things worse by polluting the water supply
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TWLadyGrey and
Figuring out how to not to do that was a movement of fits and starts, hence 1854 being when epidemiology as a discipline had its first sudden gasp of life
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