PHI 2394 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Jonas Salk, Polio Vaccine, Josef Mengele
30 Oct 2018
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Video: the origin of aids, hiv is the cause of aids, people thought it was a bomb from nowhere. Didn"t know where it came from: siv- hiv ancestry, virus, when, north east side of uganda, collect 2000 sample of adult blood. One one test came out to be zero positive: where do humans have contact with apes, only 2 ways to have contact with a apes. Usa. so they made a deal with their home county: used vaccine in congo, where conprski did his vaccine, 1 year later first case of aid, his vaccine was contaminated with a virus. Instead of green monkey used a diff monkey. Jonas salk: discoverer of the polio vaccine. Newton vs leibniz chimpanzees-siv: began in the 1950s, correlation does not mean causation. Cryptozoology-living organisms that are not currently known to zoology. Looking for extinct animals: ex tree kangaroo. Decisions about what qualifies are science is done by politicians.
