Autoclave with the bain-mariee

Pasteurization, process éponyme of sterilization by heat, was one of the principal contributions of Louis Pasteur to science, but the neologism "pastorism" can also apply to our XXIe century.

What do you think of sanitarianism and the precaution principle?
On a side, the American authorities reject cheeses with believed milk, and other, in France, néo-tradition and the fashion of the bio makes receipt. You replace a form of good sense, proximity with nature, certainly essential to human, by substitutes of products and behaviors named wrongly natural, with great reinforcement of advertisements. It is certain that the marmalade is better when it is prepared in the copper confiturier of my daughter, glané in a vacuum attic! Your company requires truth and the authentic one, but without the risks, and under control of laboratories which sufficiently often have independent only qualifier. All that is granguignolesque. I returned to attend a bad part.

Did you note change in the fitting of the laboratories?
I observe especially a true phobia of the microbes, bacteria and other viruses! Diantre, if I had taken as many precautions, I would have probably had great difficulty to make my discoveries...

(Stopping It) besides, a reading different from your history lets appear many plagiarisms... How you go there, indeed, I know that All Saints' day and Galbier contributed largely to the development of my anti-rabic vaccine! I am simply more skilful and prompt to discourse that my fellow-members. Hold, I did not have any evil to write my short speech of entry to the French Academy, without never to have finished the drafting of my only and single book! It is not directly of my fault if you set me up in "laic saint", Good Pasteur of the images of Épinal, like Jeanne of the Lily.

And about the laboratories?
Ha yes! Without laboratories, the scientists are soldiers without weapons, then I approve the optimization of their fitting and the improvement of the techniques of cleaning. All this clearly indicates the interest growing which you carry to the purity. But to take too many precautions, aren't you sclerosing certain ways of research? Sometimes, I wonder whether you do not privilege the profit with the detriment of discovered in oneself; by industrial temptation, the scientist ceases being a pure scientist. Please excuse me (Pasteur rises and leaves to soap the hands lengthily, then it washes the soap with large water before giving it to its place.) this microphone does not seem to me clean... Fortunately, I did not need the TSF to give lessons of hygiene!

Where were we?
It is said that you often patented the techniques of the others... My young friend, I will put an end to our maintenance if you insult me kind! As I said it presently to you, it does not matter. You know, it is as for my vaccine with oxygen. This program was not reliable, I knew some before the boldness which several people had then denounced like an imprudence, but I believe that it is necessary to hear the word of the poet: audentes fortuna juvat. I did not have no need for HEART or BPF! Certain modern historians reproach you your "systematic behavior of vaccination" which, by weakening our immune system, would have supported the appearance of pathologies of our time: AIDS, hepatitis, ESB, etc I cannot be upset with them to doubt, leave the certainty to the politicians. Because, a posteriori, that to think of the sterilization and the systematic pasteurization of the food which do not make any difference between the pathogenic microbes and those which are not it. It is necessary, perhaps, to be wary pareillement of the irradiation of food and the products transgenic. You see that the retreat is necessary and often salutary

What, of our time, frightens you more?
Bioterrorism! Without any doubt. The possibility that shadies are in possession of resistant stocks of variola or coal, for example, is at the same time revolting and alarming. We had as well evil to discover them and with the éradiquer, as I wonder how you arrived from there at such menaçantes ends. Vis-a-vis the egotistic feelings, humanistic philosophy, sociology, or quite simply the tolerance, abundantly do not seem to have progressed in 150 years.

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