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But he made up for it, in part, in 1979 by conjoining a half-dozen Democrats into a sort of ‘human centipede.”

That was Trey and Matt, not Koop.

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Of course he wasn’t always popular with hardcore social conservatives for advocating condom use and proper education to curb the AIDS epidemic, although he said he didn’t think his personal views should override his professional ones.

Also his later funding of drkoop.com which became one of the very first general medical advice websites, although it soon got pulled because of being used as advertising for pharmaceutical companies.

Before Koop, most people didn’t know the Surgeon General’s office even existed although it went back to the late 19th century. Of course it gained somewhat more notoriety with Joceyln Elders went and said that schools should teach children how to masturbate, but that’s neither here nor there.