And then there’s Ignatz Semmelweis, whose notion that you should wash your hands between dissecting corpses and delivering babies destroyed his career and ultimately led to the untimely end of his life. We’ve been fighting the RFKJr types for so long, it’s exhausting.

Look, I’m not saying you have to wash your hands between dissecting corpses and delivering babies, but you should at least piss on them or something right?

Hmm, I was gonna say that it would be better than nothing but then I remembered how common STIs were in those days.

I think I’d take Edward Pisshands over Edward Corpsehands as my surgeon, should I be required to make such a choice at some point in the future. Not ruling it out, given the times! It’s good I’ve settled already, I can make a quick decision.