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How Science Works - Wash Your Hands

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Ignatz Semmelweiss is called the “Saviour of ____________”

Hamsters

Fathers

Mothers

What is “obstetrics?”

Science of childbirth

Science of elderly

Science of sarcaastic teenagers

Science of corpses

Infantacide is the killing of  ____________

sarcastic teenagers

llamas

Tonys

babies

What’s another word for puerperal fever?

Couch potato fever

Violet fever

Scarlet fever

Childbed fever

At first, what did Iggy think was killing the moms?

hard beds and soft pillows

rotten food and old knives

ringing bells and funny angles

bad doctors and cheap medicine

What was Iggy's hypothesis?

Disease can be sexist

Disease can be fun

Disease can be transmitted

Disease can be fatal

What was killing the expectant moms?

Old nurses

Clean sheets

Dirty hands

Smelly dogs

How did the scientists react to Iggy’s discovery?

With excitement

With disbelief

With a sense of humour

With sadness

After travelling around and trying to spread the word, where did Ignatz go back to work?

Hungary

Austria

Vietnam

Italy

How did Iggy end up in the loony bin (mad-house, asylum)?

took IBDP an extra year

sent by his father

had to teach math

tricked by another doctor

Ironically, how did Iggy die?

Covid vaccine

Gorilla fell on him

An infected cut

Bad doctor advice

What’s the "Semmelweiss reflex?"

to refuse new knowledge instantly

to spread old knowledge instantly

to accept new knowledge instantly

to use old knowledge instantly