{"id":1600,"date":"2009-10-26T11:43:07","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T16:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/?p=1600"},"modified":"2009-10-26T11:43:07","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T16:43:07","slug":"goodbye-smallpox-thanks-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/26\/goodbye-smallpox-thanks-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye, Smallpox! Thanks, Science!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the 32nd anniversary of the elimination of smallpox, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Smallpox#Eradication\">according to Wikipedia<\/a>. How was it eliminated?<\/p>\n<p>Vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s medical science at its best&#8230; not &#8220;alternative&#8221; medicine, not homeopathy, not prayer, not the &#8220;Will of God.&#8221; Science. Real people doing real research to develop real solutions to real problems.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing works like science.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2009\/10\/26\/an-anniversary-worth-celebrating\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Phil Plait says it better<\/a> than I could (as usual).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the 32nd anniversary of the elimination of smallpox, according to Wikipedia. How was it eliminated? Vaccines. That&#8217;s medical science at its best&#8230; not &#8220;alternative&#8221; medicine, not homeopathy, not prayer, not the &#8220;Will of God.&#8221; Science. Real people doing real research to develop real solutions to real problems. Nothing works like science. Phil Plait &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/26\/goodbye-smallpox-thanks-science\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Goodbye, Smallpox! Thanks, Science!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[91,624,721,747,832],"class_list":["post-1600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","tag-bad-astronomy","tag-phil-plait","tag-science","tag-smallpox","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}