Feedback remembers the cosmic knowledge of politicians past, as Andrew Griffith, newly appointed as minister of state for science in the UK, mistakes the Sun for Mars
The UK is successfully playing catch-up with the US in boosting politicians who speak knowingly of the vast, mostly empty depths of the universe.Griffith apparently gave her a demonstration of how education happens: “He points to the suspended sphere in the Science Museum that switches appearance from planet to planet and declares ‘now we have got Mars!’ only for an employee to gently tell him it is, in fact, the Sun. Undeterred, Griffith exclaims ‘that one is Saturn!’ as the planet changes.
He first sets the scene: “In the 1890s a Faroese/Danish physician, Niels Finsen, showed that UV light could cure tuberculosis of the skin. For this work Finsen was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1903. Finsen’s original work used artificial UV light and this was widely used in TB treatment in the 1920s and 1930s.
John then relates his experience in the 1980s as a physician in Birmingham, UK, specialising in infectious diseases: “I was asked to see a 17 year old who had recently started training as a nurse. At that time all new entrants to nurse training would be offered a vaccine against TB, if they hadn’t already had it. In her case an ulcer appeared at the site of her injection and it gradually enlarged over two months to a width of about 8 cm. I advised a course of antibiotics.
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