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I mean...Thomas is stunning at he knows it 💖

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[Conan Doyle] first took up arms - which is to say, his pen - in 1883, to chastise opponents of the Contagious Diseases Act. The law, which was first passed in 1864 and amended in 1866 and 1869, allowed police to arrest prostitutes and subject them to checks for venereal disease. Any woman found to be infected was subject to confinement in a hospital for up to a year. The law was clearly unfairly punitive to the women; their male customers were subject to no such treatment. But in the face of a rising campaign against the law, Conan Doyle felt obliged to speak up and point out the rampant threat to the public health that infectious disease presented. In a letter to The Medical Times and Gazette, he argued for the greater good. "For fear delicacy should be offended where no touch of delicacy exists, dreadful evils are to result, men to suffer, children to die, and pure women to inherit unspeakable evils," he lamented. "It becomes a matter of public calamity that these Acts should be suspended for a single day, far more for an indefinite period." A few years later, it was mandatory vaccination laws that needed defending. After a Col. S. B. Wintle of Southsea objected to vaccination in the public newspaper, Conan Doyle rushed to defend the practice. "The interests at stake are so vital," he wrote in response, "that an enormous responsibility rest with the men whose notion of progress is to revert to the condition of things which existed in the dark ages before the dawn of medical science." After brandishing statistics that showed that the incidence and mortality rate of smallpox were decreasing, he offered a more heartfelt argument to counter Colonel Wintle. "Is it immoral to preserve a child from a deadly disease by methods that have been proven by science and experience?" Colonel Wintle soon argued back that epidemics of smallpox continued to break out in London and Liverpool. So much for vaccines, he implied. Conan Doyle answered with more evidence: "The death rate varies from less than one in a hundred among the well-vaccinated to the enormous mortality of 37 per cent among Colonel Wintle's followers." He further noted that London and Liverpool both had large transient populations that made it difficult to enforce vaccination laws fully. Finally, he got personal. Colonel Wintle, like all who would continue to argue against vaccination, "undertakes a vast responsibility when, in the face of the overwhelming testimony of those who are brought more closely into contact with the disease, he incites others ... to take their chance of infection in defiance of hospital statistics."

pgs 135-136, Goetz, Thomas, The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the quest to cure tuberculosis. Gotham books, New York: 2014

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Conquering Cancer Xprize

“Much of the meager increase in cancer survival rates over the past 30 years can be attributed not to new chemotherapies or treatments but to early detection” – Thomas Goetz WIRED Magazine

Financial incentives today reward innovations in cancer treatment, not detection. In order to maximize progress in the field of cancer research and catalyze breakthroughs, we need to tackle the problem from…

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Read Thomas Geotz in INC.

Thomas Goetz has penned a new piece for the latest issue of INC. Magazine, "When Apple Calls, You Need to Know How to Answer."

A number of months ago, my startup, Iodine, had the kind of moment that all startups dream about. We were invited by Apple--yes, that Apple--to partner on the launch of an app framework for health, called CareKit. For a software startup, it doesn't get much better. Here we are, a little, nine-person shop, getting early access to Apple's developer tools, and there was Apple helping us make the best app we could with its engineers. It was a rare invitation to peek behind the curtain of the biggest technology company--hell, one of the biggest companies--on the planet. And it led to a crescendo of media coverage and tens of thousands of app downloads. [INC.com]

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Read Thomas Goetz's latest at Inc.

Thomas Goetz has a new piece up at Inc. on "How You Should Really Think About Your Company's Burn Rate."

You try to prepare for it. You know it's going to happen. And you remind yourself that it's all part of the plan. But there's nothing quite like watching your bank account drain dollar by dollar, month after month, to instill a sense of existential foreboding. Though it's called the burn rate, that term doesn't really capture the drip-by-drip unease of spending more money than you're making as you race to build something that catches on before the cash runs out. [Inc.com]

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Thomas Goetz's startup Iodine gets FDA nod in Data Sharing Project

San Francisco-based startup Iodine [founded by Thomas Goetz] has won a $1.2 million contract to help the Food and Drug Administration expand its open-data program, called openFDA, as part of the Obama administration’s efforts to make government data more accessible to developers. [Recode.net]

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REVIEW: The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis by Thomas Goetz

REVIEW: The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis by Thomas Goetz

The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis by Thomas Goetz

Publisher: Gotham Books

Release Date: April 3, 2014

Source: publisher

In 1875, tuberculosis was the deadliest disease in the world, accountable for a third of all deaths. A diagnosis of TB—often called consumption—was a death sentence. Then, in a triumph of medical science, a German doctor named…

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