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@Sniperboy5551

6 ай бұрын

Probably all of us, quite frankly

@Fer--

6 ай бұрын

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Nailed it man, hadn't ever heard of Gramicidin S before but it's a really cool bit of history

This video is a well-organized account of a little known but important antibiotic. The historical account is particularly interesting providing the viewer with a sense of how politics highly influenced research during this time. Great job Ciggy!

nice vid ciggy

Great video Ciggy! You did a great job of making all the chemistry nonsense understandable. The story's also pretty fascinating! looking forward to your next vid~

@CiggySnake

6 ай бұрын

Thanks Vingo, glad you enjoyed the vid and that it all made sense.

You are so underrated. This is especially true considering how important this research is. Keep it up!!!

@CiggySnake

6 ай бұрын

Thank you very much man, yeah it's a really interesting topic.

Nice video, I rarely find information about Soviet science I have to say though, a lot of history about Stalin and his role in the Soviet government is still ultimately based on anecdotes from anticommunist propaganda, some of it you can even trace back to nazi journals. The media has built a common sense that doesn't reflect how polemic this topic is among historians. We should always try to check the historians' objectives, biases and how concrete the evidences are. Some historians I consider serious that I rebember right now are Hobbsbawn, Grover Furr and Douglas Tottle. I recommend checking them out!

@vhasteil

6 ай бұрын

I also must say that I did not expect to hear Celeste soundtrack in the background, absolutely loved it!

very cool vid! i’m currently a student pursuing pharmacy, and content that you and ThatChemist make is super helpful and keeping me inspired about chemistry. thank you and keep it up!

@CiggySnake

6 ай бұрын

Of course, glad you enjoyed it. The chemistry behind these sorts of things is really fascinating.

Really good research

@CiggySnake

6 ай бұрын

Appreciated, I do my best to have solid research for my vids.

Ciggy is so cool and awesome swag

@CiggySnake

6 ай бұрын

Real

@mynameismrsnrub

6 ай бұрын

true!

Woooooow! Very interesting Also nice combination of history and biology

@CiggySnake

6 ай бұрын

100%, it's a neat bit of history and a cool bit of science

When USSR did something: "They did this nice thing BUT I am ideologically required to remind everyone that Stalin and Lysenko were very bad people even if it didn't play a detrimental role in the story about the thing I am talking about." When the USA did something: "They did this with government money and gifted the patent/intellectual rights to a company that manufactured much more of the good thing cause stonks. Countless lives saved, no other bad things happened and I won't remind everyone that the US government did other very bad things. The CIA did not test new drugs and bio weapons on their black civilian population, they did not intentionally infect poor people with HIV, the pharmaceutical companies are not leveraging old intellectual property laws to extract money from sick patients to this very day, the millions of people who died as a result of what the US government and private corporations did (and are still doing) is too hard to count, we can't know for sure, we'll pretend it didn't happen or if it did it was no ones fault in particular. No, the US is not providing legal coverage under the first amendment for pseudo-scientists like Andrew Wakefield who experimented on autistic children in the UK to make people afraid of vaccines and expand his snakeoil business."

@vhasteil

6 ай бұрын

Unfortunately the red scare propaganda during the cold war was so strong in the media it formed a common sense that still lingers, even if it doesn't reflect how polemic the debate around Stalin and his role in the government is among historians. Though, I'm glad to see more and more people are aware that history based on anecdotes should be looked critically consideiring the objectives and biases of the historians.

Interesting!

@CiggySnake

6 ай бұрын

It really is

Good Channel

@CiggySnake

6 ай бұрын

I try to do my best here, thanks

I would love to see a video on arsphenamine

@CiggySnake

6 ай бұрын

Looking into arsphenamine, it's an interesting compound and similarly an interesting piece of history, the whole rise of antibiotic compounds in the first half of the 20th century is both fascinating and miraculous. By sheer coincidence I worked on this vid along with a different video for another channel specifically looking at various antibiotics (I mention it at the end of this one), and arsphenamine would have been a solid addition to that.

Keep it up big dawg

@CiggySnake

6 ай бұрын

That's what I plan to do man

This is neat, chemistry along with history… especially since it’s Soviet history.

@CiggySnake

6 ай бұрын

Yeah it's a cool topic, I actually have a degree in chemistry so it's fun to (slightly) flex it and talk about the subject.

for a second I thought they are talking about kustrozin and was like... what... XD

I found this through that chemist

Gets me thinking about Phage Therapy.

@CiggySnake

6 ай бұрын

Phage therapy as an area of research and mode of treatment was popular at that time, yeah.

The photo of "the muck" @ 1:03 is a WWI photo

@killscreen7519

5 ай бұрын

From Frank Hurley, Château Wood, 1917

I get no notification in my subscribed channel list, whats happening?

@CiggySnake

5 ай бұрын

No clue, KZread is only so reliable. Ring the bell if you want more consistent alerts

Ooooh soviet antibiotic video. Nice

@CiggySnake

6 ай бұрын

A niche topic, but a neat one imo

yeah sure but it's still not as powerful as flintstones gummies

@CiggySnake

6 ай бұрын

The USSR would not have fallen if they had those early on

Kind of a misleading title, no?

@theodorekorehonen

6 ай бұрын

It would seem that penicillin superseded this antibiotic that "beat penicillin" when it became available. Also an antibiotic that is not systemic can hardly be said to be better than penicillin