Talk:Charles Best (medical scientist)

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Thee Charles Best page ignores the damning evidence found in Michael bliss 1982 book "The discovery of Insulin" and his 1993 article "Rewriting Medical History: Charles Best and the Banting and Best myth" in the Journal of the history of Medicine and allied sciences. There is an excellent chapter relating to the true story of insulin`s discovery(and not the Best fantasy which is being peddled here) in John Waller`s 2002 book "Fabulous Science-fact and fiction in the history of scientific discovery"

Stevenscollege 3/6/05

I have started to change the page, I substituted "vital" with the more accurate "small" in the first paragraph and tried to explain the nobel Controversy which isnt a Controversy at all. In fact I have taken the link to the controversy page out.

Stevenscollege 3/6/05

why would you do that???? best was involved so it is a controversy —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.159.3.161 (talk • contribs) 03:07, 21 December 2006

"Rewriting Medical History: Charles Best and the Banting and Best Myth" by Michael Bliss can be found online. –panda (talk) 21:20, 3 April 2008 (UTC)


 * First: Best almost certainly wasn't old enough, knowledgeable or experienced enough to have discovered insulin without Banting. Like these two, many people help senior scientists do their research; actually doing the work isn't qualification enough to win a Nobel. The way it was almost always done in those days was for the senior scientist to get the prize. He who gets the prestige, money and equipment together to enable the research usually walks away with everything. That's the way it works everywhere. Who built the Panama canal, the Hoover Dam? The Trans-Siberia Railroad? Not the guys who got credit for them. Want to see a really annoying example in science? read about astronomer Henrietta_Swan_Leavitt; her *extremely* important discovery was how to measure the distance to stars. Edwin Hubble =himself= said she should have won a Nobel (but then Hubble didn't get a Nobel until after his death either). Another: Shockley got a Nobel for the transistor, because he was the leader of the group, not because he actually did the hard work. Twang (talk) 09:43, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

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