Post by rmarks1 on Mar 18, 2020 12:56:31 GMT -5
David Gura, an MSNBC anchor I've never heard of, apparently has a TV show called "Up." And, like most cable TV show hosts, he has opinions. He doesn't have any facts to back them up, a sense of perspective, any knowledge of the topic, or a basic grasp of reality, but he does have opinions. And you should know about them.
His latest opinion is that all microbiologists are racists. That's right, you microscope-wielding, white (WHITE!!) coat-wearing, bespectacled geeks. You're a bunch of racists. The evidence is so plainly obvious, he took to Twitter to proclaim it:...
Just like anything, when something new is discovered, the discoverer usually gets "first dibs" on naming it. Other times, some initially used name just sticks, and that's the name scientists use going forward. For infectious diseases, it was rather routine for microbiologists to name them after a location, animal, or person. Here are a few examples:
West Nile
Lyme (named after a town in Connecticut)
Spanish flu
German measles
Norovirus (named after Norwalk, Ohio)
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome
St. Louis encephalitis
Lassa fever (named after a town in Nigeria)
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
Ebola (named after a river in Africa)
Legionnaires' disease (named after the American Legion)
When extremely famous diseases are named after a town in Connecticut or Ohio, then it's absolutely impossible to conclude that a name like "Wuhan virus" is racist. It's simply a matter of longstanding convention.
www.acsh.org/news/2020/03/09/msnbcs-david-gura-thinks-all-microbiologists-are-racists-14624
His latest opinion is that all microbiologists are racists. That's right, you microscope-wielding, white (WHITE!!) coat-wearing, bespectacled geeks. You're a bunch of racists. The evidence is so plainly obvious, he took to Twitter to proclaim it:...
Just like anything, when something new is discovered, the discoverer usually gets "first dibs" on naming it. Other times, some initially used name just sticks, and that's the name scientists use going forward. For infectious diseases, it was rather routine for microbiologists to name them after a location, animal, or person. Here are a few examples:
West Nile
Lyme (named after a town in Connecticut)
Spanish flu
German measles
Norovirus (named after Norwalk, Ohio)
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome
St. Louis encephalitis
Lassa fever (named after a town in Nigeria)
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
Ebola (named after a river in Africa)
Legionnaires' disease (named after the American Legion)
When extremely famous diseases are named after a town in Connecticut or Ohio, then it's absolutely impossible to conclude that a name like "Wuhan virus" is racist. It's simply a matter of longstanding convention.
www.acsh.org/news/2020/03/09/msnbcs-david-gura-thinks-all-microbiologists-are-racists-14624
Bob
