Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State commission investigated the 76 deaths at Lübeck, held they were due to "omission of laboratory precautions" in preparing the vaccine. At the trial Professor Georg Deycke, director of the Lübeck municipal hospital, sought to take all the blame. He said his belief in the usefulness of BCG was "a scientific error," declared subsequent tests had convinced him that the vaccine was a perfect means of introducing tuberculosis into the bodies of the vaccinated children. Weeping, he begged that the other three defendants be freed, said the judges need feel no scruples in taking his life...
...This vital fire below is the pressure of chambers of commerce and of nations of further their own individual interests. Individuals are not so much to blame, nor the oft-abused Congressmen; it is a concentration of pressure at Washington that keeps in operation a tariff which is approved by few. Such tariffs, in the opinion of Frank Simonds, lead to more deaths than wars themselves...
Medicine soon reported that cure was extremely difficult. The poison had degenerated certain nerves. In many cases, where the ginger-drinking had been small, the victims recovered control of their heads and hands. But recovery from the foot paralysis has been rare. Victims raged. The Government was to blame, they reasoned. The pure-food laws if properly enforced would have protected them...
...Suspended from the New York Stock Exchange last week for insolvency was Kountze Bros. 61-year-old conservative stock & bond firm. Of 1.3 Exchange members to fail in the past two years, Kountze Bros, was first to place the blame squarely on the declining bond market...
...physics," is tottering into superstition. "The new philosophy of physics is humble and stammering, where the old philosophy was proud and dictatorial." To Popularizing Physicists Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (The Nature of the Physical World) and Sir James Hopwood Jeans (The Universe Around Us) Russell lays the blame in large part, in no uncertain terms. An almost angry skeptic on the subject of reasoning by deduction, Russell asserts: "Eddington deduces religion from the fact that atoms do not obey the laws of mathematics. Jeans deduces it from the fact that they do. ... Jeans's God. like Plato...