it is likely that medicine, and speed may be the only clear cases of
progress with impacts. the progress in, say, linguistics or cosmology --I
surmise-- won't count for/as being forward steps.
The cases like the worms are interesting because most of the deadly
diseases are trivial to treat (I have in mind malaria e.g., as opposed to
brain tumors)
palma, apgs
On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 10:32 AM, <epostboxx@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
In dialectical dispute about the notion of ‘Fortschritt’ [literally:
‘forward step’] I often use the elimination of smallpox in the 1970’s as
undisputable evidence of progress in modern times.
This morning I read in DER SPIEGEL reference to a report of “continued
progress in the global Guinea worm eradication campaign. In 2017, there
were only 20 villages with cases of Guinea worm disease in two countries,
both in Africa, compared to 23,735 villages in 21 countries on two
continents in 1991.”
The report referred to — in English:
https://www.cartercenter.org/news/pr/guinea-worm-worldwide-
cases-jan2018.html
For those with (or who wish to practice their) German:
http://www.spiegel.de/gesundheit/diagnose/guineawurm-in-afrika-
tueckischer-parasit-kurz-vor-ausrottung-a-1188959.html
For those unfamiliar with the Guinea worm: I guarantee that after reading
the following you will agree with my assessment of this news as
"undisputable evidence of progress!”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracunculus_medinensis
Chris Bruce,
recommending from personal experience
to avoid adding that WIKIPEDIA article
to one’s ‘breakfast reading’ list, in
Kiel, Germany
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