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The Skeptics Guide #919 - Feb 18 2023

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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Is There a Risk of Burying a Plague Body?

It's hard to dig six feet down, which is why even today, that's rarely done. The most of the states that regulate it will allow at least two feet of dirt over the casket. It really was just the miasma thing about the plague. That was the only reason why they did that. We weren't most of the bodies that are in the Catacombs in Paris.

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