Chuck Harris wrote:

Don Bowey wrote:
"Chuck Harris" wrote:
Fred Bloggs wrote:

French medical science rivals the world, to this day they continue to
make great breakthroughs. Louis Pasteur is the Isaac Newton of modern
microbiology, a great genius.
Yeah, and the Arab world used to be the cradle of civilization.

Things change.

It still was. That didn't change

You really need to try and follow the thread.

Start again at the part that reads "French medical...

FB uses Louis Pasteur as proof of France's current
greatness in medical science.

That is just like using the Arab world's centuries old expertise
in mathematics as proof of its current scholarly greatness.

Not at all.

The Pasteur Institute is still very active.

Graham