Maps collected from the Intertubes. Some are really tough, most easy. A couple aren’t even maps but they are geographical references.
Continue reading Can you spot the error on each of these maps?

Maps collected from the Intertubes. Some are really tough, most easy. A couple aren’t even maps but they are geographical references.
Continue reading Can you spot the error on each of these maps?
At a low but consistent frequency, I see a remark on Twitter or Facebook like: “So, where were all yahoos objecting to the Polio vaccine??!!11!!?? That is a disease we wiped out with a vaccine, that could not have happened if antivax existed then!”
This would be a reasonable lament were it true. I recently read, in Chernov’s Washington: A Life, that George Washington was anti-vax, before he changed his mind based on evidence made clear to him, and then became pro-vax. That was in relation to smallpox, and the “vaccine” was actually “variolation,” which is to modern vaccines what a camel is to a modern RV. Same idea, different technology. Continue reading History vs Now