A different Jonas

There are people who change the world so significantly that the reverberations are felt for light years.

Jonas Salk is one of those people.

Salk, a brilliant medical researcher developed his highly successful polio vaccine by flying in the face of what many researchers believed then was the protocol for vaccine development. Announcing to the world in 1953 that he would be personally responsible for the vaccine he inoculated his own wife and children in the first vaccine trials. (Considering that children were dying in other polio vaccine trials this was fearsome testimony). By 1955 Salk's vaccine was declared safe and millions of children were saved from death and deformity.

Salk resented the fame that accompanied his medical revolution, and unbelievably was never awarded the Noble Prize for Medicine. (In 1955 it was awarded to Hugo Theorell for his discovery of the oxidation enzyme....and where would laundry detergent advertising be without his work?)

If you want to learn more about Jonas Salk look here.

If you want to share your arguments about child vaccinations you are welcome to do so, however please be aware that Salk did NOT develop the controversial oral Sabin vaccine, that was Dr Albert Sabin .

A blog for your brain.

I'm sick of blogs about celebrities, fashion and how to make money on line. This whole "aspirational fashion, celebrity worship, I love money, I'm not thin enough, popular culture" thing that exists on the net is boring the pants off me! Surely I'm not alone. Where are all the brains?
Well I guess we'll see.
This blog will be broad, I just want to write about what I read, what I see and what excites and inspires me. Perhaps you'll like it, perhaps you won't. But the goal is challenge myself in what I write about, and hopefully others will be excited and inspired by what they read. Enjoy!