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The Skeptics Guide #924 - Mar 25 2023

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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The Effects of Hepatitis on Hearing Loss

It's the hepatitis that, that they were able to say pretty, pretty confidently. The hepatitis and the predisposition towards liver disease is ultimately what did him in. That didn't cause his deafness though, right? We still don't know. It might have been maybe it was a toxicity from something he was using to treat his liver disease. Could have been injury, right? This was also a man who, I mean, we're not talking heavy metal concerts with huge PAs but like, we know musicians often lose their hearing if they are around very, very loud noises all the time. Like we don't know if this was induced in that way back then. I don't

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