"Filthy stinking astronauts" -- upright citizens brigade https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK-30442RII
I was thinking "space herpes," but couldn't remember what movie it was from.
Ice Pirates.
Herpes Virus Reactivation in Astronauts During Spaceflight
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Re: Herpes Virus Reactivation in Astronauts During Spaceflight
#12Reminder that the stigma against herpes is a pharmaceutical marketing creation from the mid 1970s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_simplex#Society_and_cul... >Pedro Cuatrecasas states, "during the R&D of acyclovir, marketing [department of Burroughs Wellcome] insisted that there were 'no markets' for this compound. Most had hardly heard of genital herpes..." Thus, marketing the medical condition—separating the '…
The peak was when Time magazine had 'Herpes: The New Scarlet Letter' on the cover in August 1982 It's was actually "Today's scarlet letter: Herpes." https://goo.gl/images/hVd6um Sad when people can't do a simple Google search to verify most easily verifiable claims.
Did you update the wikipedia article with the correct citation? Its easy to complain on HN, takes a little more effort to correct misinformation for future internet users.
Re: Herpes Virus Reactivation in Astronauts During Spaceflight
#13Reminder that the stigma against herpes is a pharmaceutical marketing creation from the mid 1970s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_simplex#Society_and_cul... >Pedro Cuatrecasas states, "during the R&D of acyclovir, marketing [department of Burroughs Wellcome] insisted that there were 'no markets' for this compound. Most had hardly heard of genital herpes..." Thus, marketing the medical condition—separating the '…
The peak was when Time magazine had 'Herpes: The New Scarlet Letter' on the cover in August 1982 It's was actually "Today's scarlet letter: Herpes." https://goo.gl/images/hVd6um Sad when people can't do a simple Google search to verify most easily verifiable claims.
Agreed, but the article itself from that issue is titled "The New Scarlet Letter"[1]. The statement from Wikipedia seems to conflate the cover line with the article itself.
[1] http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,1715...
Re: Herpes Virus Reactivation in Astronauts During Spaceflight
#14Reminder that the stigma against herpes is a pharmaceutical marketing creation from the mid 1970s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_simplex#Society_and_cul... >Pedro Cuatrecasas states, "during the R&D of acyclovir, marketing [department of Burroughs Wellcome] insisted that there were 'no markets' for this compound. Most had hardly heard of genital herpes..." Thus, marketing the medical condition—separating the '…
"The stigma against" is exclusively a US bound thing. I consume a lot of media (Plus memes) from the US, and people make a real fuss about it.
In my country people give it the same importance as a simple cold.
Re: Herpes Virus Reactivation in Astronauts During Spaceflight
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
The peak was when Time magazine had 'Herpes: The New Scarlet Letter' on the cover in August 1982 It's was actually "Today's scarlet letter: Herpes." https://goo.gl/images/hVd6um Sad when people can't do a simple Google search to verify most easily verifiable claims.
Did you update the wikipedia article with the correct citation? Its easy to complain on HN, takes a little more effort to correct misinformation for future internet users.
Did you update the wikipedia article with the correct citation?
Nope. And for reasons I've outlined elsewhere on HN.
Re: Herpes Virus Reactivation in Astronauts During Spaceflight
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
The peak was when Time magazine had 'Herpes: The New Scarlet Letter' on the cover in August 1982 It's was actually "Today's scarlet letter: Herpes." https://goo.gl/images/hVd6um Sad when people can't do a simple Google search to verify most easily verifiable claims.
Did you update the wikipedia article with the correct citation? Its easy to complain on HN, takes a little more effort to correct misinformation for future internet users.
I've never been able to successfully alter a Wikipedia article, even for something as simple as a typo correction.
Bots always revert my changes within seconds.
Re: Herpes Virus Reactivation in Astronauts During Spaceflight
#17Reminder that the stigma against herpes is a pharmaceutical marketing creation from the mid 1970s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_simplex#Society_and_cul... >Pedro Cuatrecasas states, "during the R&D of acyclovir, marketing [department of Burroughs Wellcome] insisted that there were 'no markets' for this compound. Most had hardly heard of genital herpes..." Thus, marketing the medical condition—separating the '…
"The stigma against" is exclusively a US bound thing. I consume a lot of media (Plus memes) from the US, and people make a real fuss about it. In my country people give it the same importance as a simple cold.
Judging from the content on the linked wikipedia page for Herpes Simplex it strikes me as absurd that one would categorize it with the simple cold.
Re: Herpes Virus Reactivation in Astronauts During Spaceflight
#18The article doesn't mention, among possible stressors, that spacecraft are always operated at reduced air pressure and high oxygen fraction, and low humidity.
The problem is, nobody knows which factors are actually responsible for downregulating immune system activity, because every astronaut gets all of them.
A few ought to be variable. Sleep deprivation ought to be entirely avoidable, but NASA cannot quite manage not scheduling more to do in a day than there is day.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
"The stigma against" is exclusively a US bound thing. I consume a lot of media (Plus memes) from the US, and people make a real fuss about it. In my country people give it the same importance as a simple cold.
Judging from the content on the linked wikipedia page for Herpes Simplex it strikes me as absurd that one would categorize it with the simple cold.
Although it's not curable, there are a lot of good, cheap treatments available, and many people can go long periods of time with no symptoms.
Consider the line from the Wikipedia page:
"Worldwide rates of either HSV-1 or HSV-2 are between 60% and 95% in adults."
If infection rates are that high, it's probably not that big of a deal for most people.
Re: Herpes Virus Reactivation in Astronauts During Spaceflight
#20Reminder that the stigma against herpes is a pharmaceutical marketing creation from the mid 1970s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_simplex#Society_and_cul... >Pedro Cuatrecasas states, "during the R&D of acyclovir, marketing [department of Burroughs Wellcome] insisted that there were 'no markets' for this compound. Most had hardly heard of genital herpes..." Thus, marketing the medical condition—separating the '…
"The stigma against" is exclusively a US bound thing. I consume a lot of media (Plus memes) from the US, and people make a real fuss about it. In my country people give it the same importance as a simple cold.
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