Vestitor:That's not the whole story though. The Wikipedia page lists other factors the little extract omits to highlight the language part. The discovery and implementation of antibiotics; improper clinical trials.

There were (are) enough people versed in Russian in the west to be able to translate any research, so the only possible reasons for research and use lapsing in the West must have been the Cold War and the already mentioned mass production and use of (cheaper) antibiotics. If access to the research had been vital, there would have been some attempt to get it.

Ergo, I don't think this is a language-barrier issue, rather than one of geopolitics and a different direction taken.

Nothing is ever ‘the whole story’. That doesn’t mean we can’t frame and focus, to highlight missed opportunities, or whatever.

Vestitor:No, the difference is that I acknowledged them all rather than choosing the ones that suited my needs.

I see you employed the failed and illiterate 'could care less' for obvious reasons, but it doesn't even work here in the way you suggested:

"He (do you think he) could care less about the facts"

It's no wonder the world needs Esperanto when one of its largest areas is filled with illiteracy.

You seem to be unaware that English is a dead language. Its obituary was published in The Washington Post, on Sunday, September 19, 2010. The obit starts off, "The English language, which arose from humble Anglo-Saxon roots to become the lingua franca of 600 million people worldwide and the dominant lexicon of international discourse, is dead. It succumbed last month at the age of 1,617 after a long illness."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic...

mkj1887:...English is a dead language.

Languages are alive the same way that corporations are people.

Alkanadi:

mkj1887:...English is a dead language.

Languages are alive the same way that corporations are people.

Of course. You didn't get that it was a joke?

mkj1887:Of course. You didn't get that it was a joke?

I got the joke. It was amusing.