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Alex, vaccination counts as med, but not food or washing, neither of which is plausibly "science."

[jaw drops] Food and washing aren't medicine, but not science? That's just crazy talk. Germ theory of disease. Vitamins. Iodized salt reduces endemic goiter. Come on!

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I'm curious how the development of nuclear power would have gone in a world where the state didn't develop and fund it. Would it be as far developed as it is now, or would it only be developed when Gas/Coal was very rare and expensive? Also I'm not sure the internet would have looked the same as it does now if it hadn't spun off from arpa net. It would probably be far more heavily controlled, like compuserve etc.

So I'm not really sure how the economic historians can construct their counter factual hypotheses with any degree of accuracy.

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