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Podcast: UK Column Radio
Episode: Plumbing, not vaccines, decreased mortality - Roman Bystrianyk | Jerm Warfare
Description: Plumbing, not vaccines, decreased mortality - Roman Bystrianyk | Jerm Warfare► Subscribe to the UK Column YouTube channel ► https://bit.ly/ukcolumnofficialJerm and Roman chat about the long-standing debates around vaccines, especially the smallpox vaccine, questioning the dominant narrative that credits vaccines alone for eradicating disease.They suggest that improved living conditions, sanitation, and nutrition during the 19th-century health revolution played a far bigger role in reducing illness than vaccines did. In fact, there’s no evidence that vaccines had any positive net benefit.Roman’s book, Dissolving Illusions, has been influential in shifting how people see vaccination, highlighting historical data that cha...