These expert manipulators have been the scourge of humanity over the millennia.
Donald Henderson Donald Ainslie Hendersonn), (born Sept. 7, 1928, Lakewood, Ohio died Aug. 19, 2016, Towson, Md ., American epidemiologist who spearheaded the successful international effort to eradicate smallpox, a disease that was for many centuries a feared and destructive scourge of humanity.
This need to interact with the scourge of humanity is only getting greater.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.09143.002 Malaria is an ancient and deadly scourge of humanity, with hundreds of millions of people infected by Plasmodium malaria parasites and more than 600,000 deaths each year (WHO, 2014).
The identification of nonphotosynthetic plastids in apicomplexan parasites, such as the malaria agent Plasmodium falciparum, initiated a paradigm shift in parasitology and offered new weapons for fighting this scourge of humanity (Wilson et al. 1996; Jomaa et al. 1999).
This view stemmed from the hope that education, science and technology would resolve such problems of humanity as slavery, religious discrimination, illiteracy, disease, poverty, war, and other scourges of mankind, and it gave utterance to his hope for brotherhood and equality among peoples".
And the third is that our efforts to dismantle this scourge on humanity are totally disorganized, a drop in an ocean of corruption and greed.
Maybe it's time we took a hard look at ourselves before indicting technology as a scourge on humanity?
The underlying biology of that scourge of modern humanity, cancer, looks as though it is about to yield its main secret.
