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We must have read different stories. The one I read was about Jean-Jacques Muyembe, PhD in microbiology, who elected to return to his homeland to work as an epi
by thombat 7y ago
We must have read different stories. The one I read was about Jean-Jacques Muyembe, PhD in microbiology, who elected to return to his homeland to work as an epidemiologist, and when called to a disease outbreak recognised it as something novel and arranged for blood samples to be sent to a Belgian lab.
- Double_a_92 7y agoWell his contribution then was recognizing that it probably was not yellow fever, typhoid or malaria and that is was very deadly. If some other doctor (that happened to be white) with better equipment was the first to really see what was going on... How is that colonial racism or anything? It's just how things were, to the western doctors Muyembe really was just someone that happened to take the blood samples. But you know what is actually toxic national pride? This: > "He decided that all of the blood samples collected during this Ebola epidemic will stay in Congo. Anyone who wants to study this outbreak will have to come to his institute. ... But Piot says the decision was obviously made because of how African scientists have been treated. " Hindering scientific progress that could help his very own people out of spite and revenge!
- mcv 7y agoIt could also help his own people if they got recognition for their part, and the resources that come with that. Wasn't the fact that he did not have access to the equipment he needed, itself a sign of colonial racism? And yeah, chances are that if a white doctor had made the same discovery, they would have been credited with the discovery.