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I Am Alive Because of SCIENCE!!
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No really, I'm totally Alive Because of Science. In fact, I ran a quick tally and came up with the following:
Aspirin overdose (age 2) required stomach pump and hospitalization
Punctured artery in Leg (on hitching post, age 3) required surgery
Shattered Right Arm (fourteen places, age 5) (dunno if ida died, but life now would be unpleasent)
Broken Femur (age 7) see above
Spike through knee (motorcycle crash, age 9) In the tropics, internal infections can kill you. Easily.
Malaria, x 9 (fatal without treatment, age 9-14)
Ruptured Appendix (age 16)
So about 15 times just of the top of my head. And since then, so far so good, I don't think strep throat kills untreated, so I'm leaving it out.
Are you Alive Because of Science!? I've been wondering just how many people are. Let us know, in brief terms or interesting stories! Extra points for:
I Almost Died Because of Science, but Then Science Saved Me!
I Didn't Know They Could Do That!
I Have Animal Parts in Me!
It Turns Out, You Don't Really Need That!
Also, in the interests of fairness, if you have Died Because of Science, you are still welcome (and encouraged!) to post your tale!
Aspirin overdose (age 2) required stomach pump and hospitalization
Punctured artery in Leg (on hitching post, age 3) required surgery
Shattered Right Arm (fourteen places, age 5) (dunno if ida died, but life now would be unpleasent)
Broken Femur (age 7) see above
Spike through knee (motorcycle crash, age 9) In the tropics, internal infections can kill you. Easily.
Malaria, x 9 (fatal without treatment, age 9-14)
Ruptured Appendix (age 16)
So about 15 times just of the top of my head. And since then, so far so good, I don't think strep throat kills untreated, so I'm leaving it out.
Are you Alive Because of Science!? I've been wondering just how many people are. Let us know, in brief terms or interesting stories! Extra points for:
I Almost Died Because of Science, but Then Science Saved Me!
I Didn't Know They Could Do That!
I Have Animal Parts in Me!
It Turns Out, You Don't Really Need That!
Also, in the interests of fairness, if you have Died Because of Science, you are still welcome (and encouraged!) to post your tale!
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Other than that, I've never had anything worse than chicken pox.
Untreated strep can cause kidney disease and failure later in life. Happen to my grandpa.
Yea no kidding, holy shit is that a lot of stuff to happen to you at a young age. Also, how the hell did you get Malaria 9 times over the course of 5 years?
It can also spread to your heart
I'm not alive because of science, but I have both legs because of science. Wonderful antibiotics shifting a huge infection in my leg.
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Alive easily
well thats not entirely true, i mean 1 in 4 might have survived to 18 without any doctors
Explain?
How many more have been saved then those who have died by bombs and bullets and wheels and diseases, all in the name of science?
Although I am legally blind, so science made me contacts. Go optics!
Way way way less than would have died of disease or starvation without science.
About 30.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug
Aside from a scar that would be a lot more prominent, I would totally still be alive without science. Though I'd have shitty teeth.
I imagine going untreated that would have been fatal.
About a year ago I started having episodes about once a month where I would throw up constantly for a week at a time. Life is not pleasant knowing that you have developed some sort of male period that makes you puke your guts out.
In November I was diagnosed with acid reflux and put on protonix. Since then I've had one episode that lasted less than 24 hours.
Yay Science!
Doubtful.
You know, there's actual numbers to back this up. Population has growed since science came out.
No it was Church.
As for me. I had asthma real bad. Probably would have had one heck of a younger life.
Stop trying to emulate my contrarianism. You are dumb.
And I probably would have polio right now if there were no vaccine.
And I nearly cut off my finger when I was 9, and probably would have lost it without science.
And I definitely would have died without surgery.
So yeah, totally alive because of science.
Current farming techniques are pretty wasteful. I'm doing an essay on vertical farming for an english class. It's the coolest innovation in agriculture I've eve heard of.
yes because things like the black death stopped happening on their own by magic.
The difference? Science.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
There is a reason why the population explosion didn't happen until science helped technology advance to the point where it was possible. Even in hellholes, the chances of living to 18 are better than before all the technological improvements. We would still be farming based on extremely primitive methods without science.
Than logically a world with zero science would have the same population levels and mortality rates
right?
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This information is only meaningful if you overlay a chart of human deaths per years on top of it.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
Also, without glasses, I'd probably have walked in front of a bus or fallen in the sea by now.