Essays Fiction and Poetry by Andrea LeDew
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Essays Fiction and Poetry by Andrea LeDew
I first posted this poem in 2018, after watching a dramatic series about real bacteriologists in Germany, who fought to vanquish cholera through the scientific method, in 1888, and won the Nobel prize for it. There are many parallels to today’s situation and the race to find a vaccine for coronavirus, from the fierceness …
{I have included this poem in the series Sixty Days, because it deals with the theme of respecting Science, an attitude that has taken our country to the moon and beyond. It also points out how fragile the scientific mindset is. While this seventeenth-century scholar was ahead of his time in scientific thinking, he …
