15 Myths Millennials Accept as Fact

Taki's ^ | 6/13/14

[PieterCasparzen]

More promotion of the Church of secular humanism, brought to you by New World Order(tm).

[Smokin' Joe]

Gee, it seems that Louis Pasteur who was born some twenty five years after your Lord Amherst died, stole all that knowledge about germs and such that Lord Amherst had at his fingertips. I don’t know how the smallpox blankets deal could be true if it took another fifty or sixty years before anyone even thought about germ theory.

Before anyone of letters wrote about it. Considering that a theory had better be very defensible before being presented, it is difficult to ascertain whether anyone had thought of germ theory prior to it being presented and accepted.

However, you don't have to be a genius to figure out if you give blankets that belonged to people who got sick and died to people who subsequently get the same sickness and die, something in the blankets will make people sick.

[Politicalkiddo]

Not to mention the fact that these idiots believe we live in a democracy.

[fireman15]

To me, it seems like there's only a very few people left who even care how bad things are getting....and barring an utter miracle, there doesn't seem to be a way to reverse it.

Yes it is all a matter of degree. Evil has been with us since the beginning, but the level of deceit has increased so much that the left doesn't even care any more whether their lies are exposed. When they are discovered... they just muddy the waters by making up more.

[cynwoody]

Gee, it seems that Louis Pasteur who was born some twenty five years after your Lord Amherst died, stole all that knowledge about germs and such that Lord Amherst had at his fingertips. I don’t know how the smallpox blankets deal could be true if it took another fifty or sixty years before anyone even thought about germ theory.

Edward Jenner invented the smallpox vaccine in 1798, the year after Lord Jeff died and 24 years before Pasteur was born.

You didn't need the germ theory to observe that smallpox was communicable. Nor did you need it to observe that persons who had had cowpox tended not to get smallpox. Of course, it did take the likes of Jenner to figure out that you could protect people from smallpox by deliberately exposing them to cowpox.

[ansel12]

We weren’t built on immigration, we were were built by the generations who created the nation, there was very little immigration from 1770 to 1830, as we were creating the nation and the American identity.

[ansel12]

Pretty good, but one correction, about the smallpox blankets. They were real, used in New England-- by the British. Lord Jeffry Amherst, a British colonial governor and Indian fighter, who was fed up with Indian raiding parties and attacks on outlying farms, decided to take radical action. He was rewarded by having a college named after him.

First, that was before America existed, and second, prove it to historians, even that single claim about a single individual is not proven.

[Gene Eric]

Excellent (based on a cursory read.)

[x]

Gavin's a funny guy.

You can see him on Red Eye.

George Zimmerman wasn't Jewish, though.

And if diversity isn't "our strength" could it be that things really are getting worse?

[AllAmericanGirl44]

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[verga]

Amherst, a town that has become a liberal hell.

There is one in Western NY that is a liberal hell as well. Unless that is the one your are already talking about.

[dsc]

“And if diversity isn’t “our strength” could it be that things really are getting worse?”

Diversity is where nations go to die.

[Mears]

The Amherst I meant is in Western MA

It is the home of U MASS,Hampshire College and Amherst College.

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[surroundedbyblue]

You didn’t actually read the article, did you?

[stylin19a]

cept for the anti-coolie law of 1862

[NKP_Vet]

You don’t call sodomite “marriage” and the US government forcing perverted sex acts on the rest of the country as deviate behavior. When has the United States ever condoned such immoral garbage. George Washington and the other Founding Fathers are rolling over in their graves. The American Medical Association since it’s inception classified homosexuality for exactly what it is, a mental disorder, until the radical sodomites got to them then the meaning was changed. All the sudden nothing wrong with sodomy. I could go on and on. Nothing is as deviate as a man having anal sex with another man and the Federal government legalizing perversion and saying they can now get “married”. Ever saw a baby come through the anus into this world?

[MD Expat in PA]

You didn't need the germ theory to observe that smallpox was communicable. Nor did you need it to observe that persons who had had cowpox tended not to get smallpox. Of course, it did take the likes of Jenner to figure out that you could protect people from smallpox by deliberately exposing them to cowpox.

Exactly. We presume that people in the past, even those in even more ancient times were totally ignorant and not capable of observing basic cause and effect. Granted, before Jenner and others discovered how disease pathogens; how viruses and bacteria caused disease and exactly how they were transmitted, people knew that if you were in close contact with someone who was sick or even in contact with the deceased body or just with their soiled bedding and clothing, that there was a good likelihood that you would also fall ill.

Before “germ theory” was fully understood, before microscopes were developed and bacteria and viruses identified as disease causing pathogens, people understood the basic concept of disease transmission even if they didn’t understand the science involved.

Not all that long ago, it was presumed that “bad vapors”, i.e. bad smells, i.e. “bad vapors” were to blame for many diseases and while that wasn’t exactly correct, it wasn’t all that far off.

Doctors in the Middle Ages during the great plagues, they used robes and masks and even gloves like this when treating plague victims:

[SamAdams76]

The deviant behavior you speak of existed throughout human civilization, including during the time of the Founding Fathers. In fact, it was more prevalent in earlier times. Just study the Roman Empire for example.

[NKP_Vet]

It was never legalized. There ABSOLUTELY was never sodomite “marriage”. Never in the history of mankind.