![]() | A news item involving Paul Parkman was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 25 May 2024. | ![]() |
![]() | This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
![]() | A fact from Paul Parkman appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the
Did you know column on 6 July 2024 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
| ![]() |
The result was: promoted by
Hey man im josh
talk
14:28, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
“As I look back on my career, I have come to think that perhaps I was involved in the easy part,” he added. “It will be for others to take on the difficult task of maintaining the protections that we struggled to achieve. We must prevent the spread of this vaccine nihilism, for if it were to prevail, our successes could be lost.”"
NY TimesThriley ( talk) 16:43, 28 May 2024 (UTC).
ALT1 ...that Paul Parkman (pictured), one of the developers of the rubella vaccine, did not monetize the patent so it could be freely available? Thriley ( talk) 22:04, 18 June 2024 (UTC)
It seems to me that his primary legacy has to be a rubella vaccine unencumbered by greed. Compared with that, statues and awards are peanuts. TooManyFingers ( talk) 08:12, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
Similar to the true story of Jonas Salk, who tried a number of times to patent the polio vaccine created by his team, and failed, only to then come out claiming "Can you patent the sun?" - it was almost impossible to patent these vaccines as all the technology they used under the existing patent rules made most of them ineligible to be patented Historiaantiqua ( talk) 17:41, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
![]() | A news item involving Paul Parkman was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 25 May 2024. | ![]() |
![]() | This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
![]() | A fact from Paul Parkman appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the
Did you know column on 6 July 2024 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
| ![]() |
The result was: promoted by
Hey man im josh
talk
14:28, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
“As I look back on my career, I have come to think that perhaps I was involved in the easy part,” he added. “It will be for others to take on the difficult task of maintaining the protections that we struggled to achieve. We must prevent the spread of this vaccine nihilism, for if it were to prevail, our successes could be lost.”"
NY TimesThriley ( talk) 16:43, 28 May 2024 (UTC).
ALT1 ...that Paul Parkman (pictured), one of the developers of the rubella vaccine, did not monetize the patent so it could be freely available? Thriley ( talk) 22:04, 18 June 2024 (UTC)
It seems to me that his primary legacy has to be a rubella vaccine unencumbered by greed. Compared with that, statues and awards are peanuts. TooManyFingers ( talk) 08:12, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
Similar to the true story of Jonas Salk, who tried a number of times to patent the polio vaccine created by his team, and failed, only to then come out claiming "Can you patent the sun?" - it was almost impossible to patent these vaccines as all the technology they used under the existing patent rules made most of them ineligible to be patented Historiaantiqua ( talk) 17:41, 6 July 2024 (UTC)