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Looking back on the best (and worst) ideas of the past 25 years GUALTIERO BOFFI/ALAMY WHAT separates a good idea from a bad one? It isn’t always easy to tell. Take the invention of vaccination, for example. Drawing pus from a woman infected with cowpox and injecting it into an 8-year-old boy seems utterly reckless, but in doing so, 18th-century physician Edward Jenner found a way to fight the deadly scourge of smallpox. It is only with hindsight that we can see Jenner was on to something: a principle that has now saved millions of lives. …
摘自《新科学家》(New Scientist)第3579期 · 2026年1月24日。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。