Jiang says medicine and sanitation developed because the nation-state willed science and technology toward growing populations needed for war.
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Medicine
Jiang argues that apprenticeship and direct experience produce competence more reliably than elite schooling, using medicine as the example.
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Jiang argues that apprenticeship and direct experience produce competence more reliably than elite schooling, using medicine as the example.
Semmelweis is used as evidence that nineteenth-century Vienna punished doctors whose truths threatened powerful professional reputations.
Jiang credits Islamic Golden Age mathematics, optics, surgery, hospitals, and universities as foundations that fed the European Renaissance.
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"So as you can see, because of the rise of the nation state, we had to kill more and more people in order to..."
"...and technology to grow the population. Okay? That's why we had medicine and sanitation, okay? These innovations happened because the nation state willed these..."
"guys the correct answer is brainwashing everything else is a lie okay all right what are you in the school you come to class..."
"person's apprentice maybe the first year all you do is like wash the floor okay but you're going to observe the doctor and then..."
"So as part of this movement, I mean, you can read this, right? Sexual abuse was actually pretty common. So we have evidence to..."
"Okay? And so he launched an investigation as to what was happening, and he spent seven months, a long, long time, trying to figure..."
"We still use it today, exactly the same formula today. And so he tried this protocol, and it was a miracle, because after people..."
"But if we don't publish our findings, if we don't let the world know about this, more women are going to die in childbirth...."
"let's look at dante's divine comedy so dante is in uh hell and there in limbo he's meeting the most influential the greatest philosophers..."
"So most of the math you're studying in school actually originated during the Islamic Golden Age. This name is al -Hazan. He invented physics,..."
"It's still there guys Okay, this is the oldest university in the world. What's also amazing is it was founded by a woman who..."
"...to involve everything they're going pharmaceutical companies you know no more medicines from China or India or or locally produced you're going to be..."
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