Matt Kaplan

It was a very public demonstration of his work, and he proved that he had created a very successful vaccine.

Except when his journals and lab notebooks were opened 100 years later, it was revealed that this was entirely fraud.

He had stated that he had created the vaccine by exposing the pathogen to oxygen,

Not true.

He had used Henry Toussaint's mechanism, the one that he had derided and discredited Toussaint for, and lied about it.

Toussaint died a pauper.

Louis Pasteur went on to be celebrated as a national hero, but it was largely because of Pasteur's treatment of him that that happened.

And the same thing happened with rabies.

Pierre Gaultier, a veterinarian again, had developed a mechanism for creating a rabies vaccine.

Louis Pasteur effectively stole that mechanism, created the vaccine, tested it on people, killed some people in the process, buried the evidence that he had killed people along with the bodies, and then lied about the mechanism and where he had got it from.

effectively discrediting Gaultier as well.

So he was pretty vicious and he was very successful as a scientist, but not in a nice way.

Yeah.

So in 2003, it got published in a pretty academic book by, what was his name?

I'm going to forget the guy's name, but he translated Pasteur's journals.

And what was really interesting actually in this piece, the author wrote, but you have to excuse this behavior of Pasteur because of the high pressure environment of late 1800s French academic life.

Like being in a high pressure environment made it acceptable to so horrendously plagiarize and destroy people.

And so, you know, I'm not the one who translated the journals, but the journals haven't had a lot of discussions since they were translated.

And I think, you know, it's important to point out that Louis Pasteur, yeah, he was phenomenally successful, but he was phenomenally successful.

Yes, he was a genius, but he was also very effective in,