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The first line of the article is misleading. It says that Pasteur is "renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization". This makes it sound as though he was the inventor of vaccination, which he is not. He made important contributions and introduced important innovations in connection with vaccines, but the basic principles of vaccination were established by Edward Jenner, who coined the term "vaccine." Hypoplectrus (talk) 21:37, 12 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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My note: It's misleading to say that Louis Pasteur is known for "cholera vaccine" when his role was failing to create a cholera vaccine for chickens. Someone else later developed the cholera vaccine for humans. Pasteur was also involved with rabies vaccine development. I think it would be better to just keep it simple and say he's known for vaccine development.
Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Lemonaka (talk) 22:39, 9 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Also there is a link to a corporate content marketing piece from PassportHealth (footnote 3) that doesn't seem super relevant or authoritative and should be removed.
Justification: Pasteur only developed a cholera vaccine for chickens and it was not effective. On the other hand, he had a much more direct role in development of the rabies vaccine. Consider this source:
"Although Pasteur ( 19 ) in 1880 demonstrated immunity in fowls inoculated with attenuated cultures of P. multocida, workers since that time have had irregular results with various vaccines and bacterins. Generally, no protection was provided in the vaccinated fowls"-Dorsey and Harshfield (1959)Metasci (talk) 23:45, 9 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Change "He was dyslexic and dysgraphic" to "He was suspected of being dyslexic and having dysgraphia" and move this line to the 'Personal Life' section. Beingofhuman (talk) 13:19, 30 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Not done:Beingofhuman, 3 sources are present in the relevant sentence supporting his dyslexia and dysgraphia. While I can't review the 2 books, the web source says explicitly he had both disorders. I think, from an editorial standpoint, it makes sense to keep it where it is as both disorders are of significant relevance to his education and early life.
You are also now autoconfirmed, so moving forward you may simply edit semi-protected pages directly without needing to make an edit request. Cheers! —Sirdog(talk) 00:35, 5 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The origin of the claim that Pasteur had dyslexia seems to originate from a very questionable pop psychology book that also claims Genghis Khan, Empress Matilda, and Cesare Borgia had ADHD with no explanation. Another source listed is a book about Einstein that also claims Pasteur was dyslexic with no further explanation, that appears to be plagiarizing directly from A Short History of Human Error. "101 Things You Didn't Know about Einstein" states that Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, and Pasteur all had dyslexia in the exact same order as in the "Short History of Human Error" book but does not provide any citations for this claim either. FermentedFiend (talk) 01:00, 31 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Lemonaka (talk) 22:39, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
Not done: Beingofhuman, 3 sources are present in the relevant sentence supporting his dyslexia and dysgraphia. While I can't review the 2 books, the web source says explicitly he had both disorders. I think, from an editorial standpoint, it makes sense to keep it where it is as both disorders are of significant relevance to his education and early life.
—Sirdog (talk) 00:35, 5 November 2023 (UTC)