EP118 Matt Ridley on How Innovation Works
The Jim Rutt Show
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Vaccination Predecessor of Immunology
Inventor watt's work was strongly influenced by advances in metalurcy and pe metal work, et cetera. Another good example of the same phenomenon from around the same time is a rather more topical subject,. The idea of inoculating people against diseases - albeit not with t wasn't called va nation of i varielation -- was brought to america by a slave working for cotton mather in the 17 tens. And it worked, although it was still quite dangerous. So vaccination precedes imunology by a long, long way. It takes 200 years till pasteur starts to and it. then much later, and even to this day, we don't fully understand how
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