Just to give a bit more detail on Semmelweis: he was actually attacked as being anti-scientific. Scientists of his time had developed complicated and quite appealing theories about all the different things that could cause disease following childbirth, whereas Semmelweis insisted that it was virtually ALL the result…

Not sure on the timeline with variolation there. For a start, Mather didn’t ignore Onesimus - he researched the matter, consulted with other slaves, read articles on the topic, was convinced, and then led the drive to combat the 1721 smallpox epidemic with variolation - his campaign, and the provable results that came…

He’s been really great in AppleTV’s “For All Mankind”

I thought Knitter was Hannah and the closed captioning had her say “H...” when she was saying her name as she died.  Maybe she’s the one who hitched a ride.

SOLOMON GRANDY ALSO HAS BOOBS TO SHOW!

No one really changes or has any meaningful catharses.

Their biggest mistake with that Batman comic was not giving Bruce at least a semi.

What is with the substandard critical analyses for Watchmen? Multiple times now I’ve seen that the best hot takes have been just being willfully ignorant to the material reviewed, like the show isn’t building up grand mysteries that may explain the questions opinion pieces like this are counting as flaws. A great…

Cheney is in a room with Don, Don Jr, and Eric Trump. When Trump gives the order to shoot Cheney, Eric shoots Don Jr. “Wrong Don, Dumbass,” Cheney yells. Donald panics as he realizes he’s been outsmarted and double crossed. He’s shot in the back as he waddles toward the door.

He is waterboarded to death. Trump gives his eulogy. Lynne Cheney, fed up, shoots Trump, wounding him only but putting him in a coma he won’t wake up from. While she’s in jail, Donj and Eric come up with a scheme to get arrested and join her in a women’s prison for revenge. Both are immediately discovered and put in…

I guess they can change the name to Inmate Immunotherapies.

“Hmmm. Misusing ICE is the only way I can get a boner.”

Totally read that as “Pirates of the Caribbean”

“Leaving the gun in the stall” sounds like a euphemism for erectile dysfunction.

Ivanka’s portfolio is 9 inches by 12 inches, bound with Moroccan leather, embossed with her initials in 24-karat gold, and contains a pad of ruled note paper.

It’s ridiculous. Leia in space is awesome.

Ok.

Yeah, Uzbekistan isn’t part of the conventional definition, though I’d argue it was a deeply integrated part of the Islamic world prior to the Russian expansion into Central Asia. Bukhara, Samarqand, Khiva, Urgench, all important cities in greater Persia and major players in Islamic learning and sciences.