“Hidden Breakthroughs: 69 Scientific Marvels That Shocked Experts but Were Ignored by the World”
I had a PRK procedure done a couple years ago. Being able to function without glasses has been life changing. Before surgery, I couldn’t see the ‘E’ everyone is supposed to be able to see. However, I can still recall the smell of my eyeball flesh being burned away :/
I feel like the James Webb telescope hype came and went very quickly. I was very hype keeping up with how intricate and difficult it was to design, launch and deploy that marvel orbiting the sun. If something were to go wrong, very small chance we could fix it. The Hubble’s problems we could fix because it was in Earth’s low orbit and astronauts could get in there and fix it. S**t, while we’re at it, add Hubble to that list. And the Space Shuttle missions.
Eastern bloc nations, Georgia in particular, have been using bacteriophages to battle bacteria infections for many decades while the west focused on developing antibiotics. You can get bacteriophage treatment in the US when they’ve tried everything else and you’ve somehow managed to survive it. Seems the d**g companies have a hard time figuring out how to make money on the treatment so it gets pushed to the very thin edge margin of medicine.
Update:
Bacteriophages are used as a matter of course in genetic research; I’ve specified and used them myself. This is not that.
Historically the technique is to find a naturally occurring (mutated) phage that will attack the specific bacteria in question. In the US, the overriding concern has been the potential of shiga-toxin, or similar, producing genes present in the phage. This latter is wrong headed two ways in my experience which makes the assertion suspect to me. Though I haven’t seen anything conclusive, the decades of research prior haven’t shown this to be an issue. Regardless, it’s an almost trivial test with today’s technology.
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