Analysis Of Pasteur's Anthrax
Anthrax used to kill millions of sheep and cows in france and undoubtedly more in the rest of the world. It was a huge economic drain for herdsman and could be dangerous to humans as well.
Pasteur first report reads like a commercial. He ran his experiments like magic shows, bringing in skeptical witnesses and reporters and making admittedly brash predictions that turned out to be true. However, his experiments were very well done, with good controls and great publicity of results, though he never revealed his lab work to produce the vaccine itself. So he did fail at allowing others to reproduce his results.
As far as using the work of others, its likely that Pasteur stole the work of another French veterinarian named Toussanint, which takes
the ideal of building on the shoulders of giants a little too far.
To use the words of Pasteur, “looking at everything only from a scientific point of view, the development of vaccination against anthrax constitutes significant progress” in the field of microbiology and germ theory.
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Pasteur first report reads like a commercial. He ran his experiments like magic shows, bringing in skeptical witnesses and reporters and making admittedly brash predictions that turned out to be true. However, his experiments were very well done, with good controls and great publicity of results, though he never revealed his lab work to produce the vaccine itself. So he did fail at allowing others to reproduce his results.
As far as using the work of others, its likely that Pasteur stole the work of another French veterinarian named Toussanint, which takes
the ideal of building on the shoulders of giants a little too far.
To use the words of Pasteur, “looking at everything only from a scientific point of view, the development of vaccination against anthrax constitutes significant progress” in the field of microbiology and germ theory.
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