Commenter Thos has discovered that the new Canadian $100 bill, which commemorates the discovery of insulin, features a picture of a young, attractive woman in front of a microscope, suggesting that she is the person who discovered the hormone, which has saved the lives of countless diabetics.
However, the person who actually discovered insulin was a man (surprised?). Frederick Banting, who was born on a farm in Ontario, was a war hero and orthopedic surgeon at a children’s hospital in Toronto. Later, he became a painter, and then contributed to the WWII war effort, meeting his untimely demise in a plane crash en route to a test of a new flying suit he’d developed. He was an all-around impressive man, and someone Canadians have every right to be proud of. So why was he left off the bill commemorating the discovery of insulin in favor of some fictitious female scientist?
The only answer I can think of is that to some Canadian bureaucrat, historical accuracy and national honor take a back seat to pushing a deceptive agenda. If any man deserves better than to be snubbed in the furtherance of a lie, it is Frederick Banting, the youngest person to ever receive the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
Here’s the real discoverer:
It was bad enough when MSNBC deceptively portrayed female factory workers in a training drill as heroic Pearl Harbor firefighters, but in stealing the legacy of a national hero, this is worse. Some feminists suggested I was hyperbolic in comparing the Pearl Harbor fake to Soviet tactics, but I wonder whether even the Bolsheviks would have gone so far as to put such a blatantly deceptive picture on their currency.
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