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|publisher=Jonathan Cape
|publisher=Jonathan Cape
|year=1930
|year=1930
|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=PCteAAAAIAAJ&q=Clemenceau+Tiger&dq=Clemenceau+Tiger&hl=sk&sa=X&ei=1pWvUq7iFoW0tAa0ioBI&ved=0CDwQ6AEwAQ}}</ref>, waited for an opportunity to thwart Pasteur and his methods.<ref name="Debré"/> In 1886 Clemenceau joined Pasteur's adversaries who tried to discredit his method of antirabies vaccination whenever a death of patient occurred. They were ready to unleash hostile campaigns in the French press that was always looking for scandal and also in the scientific press, that had gained an important position in society since the first half of the nineteenth century. What was at stake here was the very future of the vaccines.<ref name="Debré"/> Pasteur however had no doubts about the effectiveness of his vaccine. He made sure that every last hostile article based on manipulative, aggressive and false accusations, whether in the general press or in specialized journals, received his response in which he defended his findings and conclusions he had drawn from them. Instead of using the same underhand means he faced, Pasteur showed science in action and personified the march of progress. At the same time, Pasteur's aggressive adversaries were consumed by envy and "cast into the shadowy realm of the wicked", along with other archaic opponents of his method.<ref name="Debré">{{cite book |title=Louis Pasteur|author=Patrice Debré|publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press|place=Baltimore and London|year=1998|pages=454-456|isbn=978-0801-865299|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=RzOcl-FLw30C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Patrice+Debre+Louis+Pasteur&hl=sk&sa=X&ei=WpSvUvLLLYXYtAbtwICgBw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Tiger&f=false|quote=...two other witnesses, both hostile to Pasteur method. ...and a little doctor in a black frock coat by the name of Georges Clemenceau. The future Tiger was indeed a fierce opponent of Pasteur. ...}}</ref>
|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=PCteAAAAIAAJ&q=Clemenceau+Tiger&dq=Clemenceau+Tiger&hl=sk&sa=X&ei=1pWvUq7iFoW0tAa0ioBI&ved=0CDwQ6AEwAQ}}</ref>, waited for an opportunity to thwart Pasteur and his methods.<ref name="Debré"/> In 1886 Clemenceau joined the fiercest of Pasteur's adversaries who tried to discredit his method of antirabies vaccination whenever a death of patient occurred. They were ready to unleash hostile, passionate and skillful campaigns in the French press that was always looking for scandal, and also in the scientific press, that had gained an important position in society since the first half of the nineteenth century. What was at stake here was the very future of the vaccines. Their fallacious arguments were of two kinds<ref name="Debré"/>:
*if the bitten patient who received the treatment did not develop rabies, the critics claimed that since the disease does not always become symptomatic, this was a spontaneous cure;
*if patient died after vaccination, they attributed the death either to rabies, which thus had not been cured, or worse yet, to the [[Immunization|inoculation]] itself.
The conclusion was always the same: Pasteur had not discovered anything, attributing the positive result to his method and harmful effect to external causes was not an option. Pasteur however had no doubts about the effectiveness of his vaccines. He made sure that every last hostile article based on manipulative, aggressive and false accusations, whether in the general press{{#tag:ref|For example, the famous satirical periodical ''La Lanterne'' published a carefully crafted savaging of Pasteur under the title "''Rabies Attacks Medical Systems''," and ''La Figaro'' a violent diatribe against Pasteur's followers.<ref name="Debré"/>|group=note}} or in specialized journals, received response either from him or his close associates such as Vulpian, in which they defended his findings and conclusions he had drawn from them. In the face of these attacks he sometimes became tired, unwell and worn out by perpetual controversies and battles that he had to fight day after day, consuming his time he could otherwise devote to scientific research. Instead of using the same underhand means he faced, Pasteur showed science in action and personified the march of progress. At the same time, Pasteur's aggressive adversaries were consumed by envy and "cast into the shadowy realm of the wicked", along with other archaic opponents of his method.<ref name="Debré">{{cite book |title=Louis Pasteur|author=Patrice Debré|publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press|place=Baltimore and London|year=1998|pages=447-456|isbn=978-0801-865299|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=RzOcl-FLw30C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Patrice+Debre+Louis+Pasteur&hl=sk&sa=X&ei=WpSvUvLLLYXYtAbtwICgBw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Tiger&f=false|quote=...two other witnesses, both hostile to Pasteur method. ...and a little doctor in a black frock coat by the name of Georges Clemenceau. The future Tiger was indeed a fierce opponent of Pasteur. ...}}</ref>
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