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England: The Broad Street Pump - Lies - Extra History (Patreon)

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2015-12-12 09:40:26
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John Snow faced disbelief from every side, but the truth behind his theories won out over time.

And don't miss the music video for the Broad Street Pump series! 

Broad Street Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doteMFHPv18

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England: The Broad Street Pump - Lies - Extra History

Support us on Patreon! http://bit.ly/EHPatreon Grab your Extra Credits gear at the store! http://bit.ly/ExtraStore Subscribe for new episodes every Saturday! http://bit.ly/SubToEC --- (Episode details below) Watch the Broad Street Pump series! http://bit.ly/1NRSAsL Play games with us on Extra Play! http://bit.ly/WatchEXP Talk to us on Twitter (@ExtraCreditz): http://bit.ly/ECTweet Follow us on Facebook: http://bit.ly/ECFBPage Get our list of recommended games on Steam: http://bit.ly/ECCurator ____________ This was a short series, but we still want to set the record straight: correct our mistakes, elaborate on stories we left out, and reflect on what we've learned! One of the recurring themes of the Broad Street Pump series was people's continued resistance to John Snow's theories, even when he collected evidence to back them. But in the end, the truth won out: the march of progress can be very slow, since individual people cling to what they know and what feels most comfortable to them, but in the course of time, we do come to accept the truth. What seemed so unbelievable back then is common knowledge now. John Snow's struggles may have seemed futile at the time, and he watched himself dismissed at every turn, but his efforts added up to the foundation of epidemiology and contributed to the acceptance of germ theory. ____________ Get the intro music here! http://bit.ly/1EQA5N7 *Music by Demetori: http://bit.ly/1AaJG4H Get the outro music here! http://bit.ly/1iYzuEx *Music by Sean and Dean Kiner: http://bit.ly/1LBy9zh Raising of Chicago link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago

Comments

Todd Carter

Chicago is raised while Seattle sinks. Ha. :) Nice job with the series!

Masa

Raising a city on jacks. Sounds bananas but if it works it works.

Aldo de Leeuw

On why the Miasma theory was so well accepted, I think we forget how badly cities smelled those days. The smelliest parts of the city seemed also to be where the most sick people were. People who lived next to the coastal lines seemed so very healthy in comparison (like in the city of Bath). My grandma still considers the air from the sea the most beneficial to one's health...

Paul Lenoue

You think raising Chicago was weird, Seattle buried the first floor of most buildings in order to raise the streets.

Arturo Gutierrez

We should create some kind of number for the Walpole Degrees of Separation. Maybe even grade each Extra History episode with a WDS number.

FizzPlease

James, your face on the thumbnail totally slayed me. As always your enthusiasm for these is so fun.

Adam "Lux-Vertas" Youdontneedtoknowmysurname

Dunno if someone said this but: on people rejecting Snow's evidence, there is something called Conformation Bias. Basically you come in with a bias and then you stick to it, this is why some people believe, even with MASSIVE evidence, things that make most people want to smack their heads at a brick wall!

Franek Korta

Rejecting Snow's evidence? People are doing it all the time. Example: What could go wrong with flushing poop down to river, which supplies us with drinkable water? Miasma gets diluted do safe level anyway. Besides sever system costs a lot of money. VS What could go wrong with raising CO2 level in atmosphere? It's volcanoes that are doing all this. Besides CO2 emission reduction costs a lot of money.

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>>1079645

One of the things I enjoy about the non-war series, like this and the South Sea Bubble, is that it's actually easier to see parallels to our modern world than it is with the war series. Instead of people thinking "Oh, that's a good story, but that war is over now" (although hopefully they recognize that these wars still have implications today), you can really see that things like bubble investing in the South Sea series is something that still happens today.

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>>1079085

Confirmation bias does make us believe that evidence supporting the things we want to be true is "more true" than evidence supporting things that would challenge our worldview. It's a basic human reaction, but definitely one to be aware of if we want to move ourselves past it!

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>>1076680

I went on the Seattle Underground Tour last month, and I loooved it! Being underneath the street and watching people's feet go over the skylights right above you is a really cool experience.

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>>1076277

Yeah, and the coastal areas generally were cleaner so they had fewer infections going around. A sort of self-reinforcing prophecy.

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>>1076148

Seattle went up too! Believe it or not the hills downtown are much, much milder slopes than the original ground the city was built on.