I don't know who all my heroes are -- some of them are anonymous.
There was a photo in a magazine I saw about 10 years ago now, taken at a KKK march. The counter-demonstrators outnumbered the KKK guys, and things were getting ugly, with fists (and rocks) being thrown. The picture showed a black woman getting herself between a hooded KKK member and the person trying to beat him up. She's one of my heroes.
Luther Terry, as previously mentioned -- the surgeon general who quit smoking when he had a press conference about the report which concluded that smoking is really, really bad for health.
Doctors who have experimented on themselves to prove how disease really happens -- including Barry Marshall (association between H Pylori and gastritis, ulcers) and Joseph Goldberger (pellegra is not contagious, it's a nutritional deficiency).
Maybe more later, if this is locked for three days...
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Date: 2010-04-04 03:04 am (UTC)There was a photo in a magazine I saw about 10 years ago now, taken at a KKK march. The counter-demonstrators outnumbered the KKK guys, and things were getting ugly, with fists (and rocks) being thrown. The picture showed a black woman getting herself between a hooded KKK member and the person trying to beat him up. She's one of my heroes.
Luther Terry, as previously mentioned -- the surgeon general who quit smoking when he had a press conference about the report which concluded that smoking is really, really bad for health.
Doctors who have experimented on themselves to prove how disease really happens -- including Barry Marshall (association between H Pylori and gastritis, ulcers) and Joseph Goldberger (pellegra is not contagious, it's a nutritional deficiency).
Maybe more later, if this is locked for three days...