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The world risks forgetting one of humanity’s greatest triumphs as polio nears global eradication − 70 years after Jonas Salk developed the vaccine in a Pittsburgh lab

It was like a horror movie. The invisible polio virus would strike, leaving young children on crutches, in wheelchairs or in a dreaded “iron lung” ventilator. Each summer, the fear was so great that public pools and movie theaters closed. Parents canceled birthday parties, afraid their child might be the…

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12 Unique Ideas That Were Stolen From Their Original Owners

Innovation shapes our world, but not every breakthrough gets credited to the right person. History is full of unique ideas that were stolen from their original owners, leaving inventors and creators without the recognition they deserved. Sometimes, these ideas were taken intentionally; other times, the theft was more subtle, happening…

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Scientific norms shape the behavior of researchers working for the greater good

Over the past 400 years or so, a set of mostly unwritten guidelines has evolved for how science should be properly done. The assumption in the research community is that science advances most effectively when scientists conduct themselves in certain ways.

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I’m a physician who has looked at hundreds of studies of vaccine safety, and here’s some of what RFK Jr. gets wrong

In the four months since he began serving as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made many public statements about vaccines that have cast doubt on their safety and on the objectivity of long-standing processes established to evaluate them.

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RFK Jr.’s lawyer: revoke polio vaccines

Aaron Siri, a conspiracy theorist like Kennedy, has also filed a petition to stop distribution of 13 other vaccines

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World Polio Day 2024: Know Date, Theme, History, Significance & Importance

The world observes World Polio Day on 24th October, the birth date of Jonas Salk, who led the first team to develop a vaccine against poliomyelitis. Read further on Dynamite News:

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History for Tomorrow by Roman Krznaric review – looking back, moving forward

From Arab scholars to hippy mothers, can history offer forgotten answers to modern problems?

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Paul Alexander, forced into an iron lung by polio in 1952, dies at 78

"More than anything, I believe he would want others to know they are capable of great things," Alexander's friend Christopher Ulmer told NPR.

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Where did vaccine mistrust come from?

Many people once lined up joyously to receive vaccines. What changed?

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Françoise Gilot obituary

French painter who wrote about her relationship with the artist Pablo Picasso in a bestselling book

The Guardian - UK

Françoise Gilot, the famed artist who loved and then left Picasso, is dead at 101

The French-born Françoise Gilot had long made her frustration clear that despite acclaim for her art she would still be best known for her relationship with the older Picasso.

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Françoise Gilot, painter and muse to Picasso, dies at 101

An accomplished painter and memoirist, French artist became a social celebrity for her romantic relationship with Picasso

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The only way to eliminate polio

When Jonas Salk's polio vaccine was found to be safe and effective in 1955, following a successful trial involving nearly two million American children, it marked a turning point in the fight against a highly infectious disease causing incurable paralysis or even death. Prior to Salk's discovery, between 25,000 and…

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Scott Maxwell: Childhood immunizations drop in Florida, where public health is mocked

For most of humanity’s existence, most of us were all on the same team when it came to eradicating deadly diseases.

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Why polio is making a comeback

Unlike COVID-19, vaccinations for polio are nearly ubiquitous. Could an outbreak actually happen again?

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Peter Salk, the son of polio vaccine's developer, says the newest US polio case sounds a warning

PITTSBURGH — After a man in Rockland County, New York, became the first patient to contract polio in the United States in nearly a decade, experts such as Dr. Peter Salk — whose late father, Jonas, developed a vaccine for the disease — said the public shouldn't be alarmed but…

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