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We have to remember that the contributors that we nominate for their
positive contributions, mostly made [unwittingly] negative contributions
as well. For example, Tesla's inventions in many and varied ways, directly
and indirectly, made life easier and longer, contributing to the population explosion we are now lumbered with. Howard Florey's negative contribution
was much more obvious and direct; all those people whose lives he saved
reproduced and will have hugely added to the population situation we now
find ourselves in. Just try to imagine the enormous number of people that
would have died without antibiotics. The world as a whole would have been
better off without antibiotics, and all the wonder drugs that we have now,
such as the Mab family of immunotherapy drugs that are working wonders with more and more varieties of cancer.
raymo
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