From the Vault: The Minotaur, Part 3
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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Guns Germs and Steel by Agera Diamond
i don't want to be too unfair, but it seems like there are a lot of allegations of kind of cherry picking. A physician edward jinner noticed that milkmaids who had acquired cow pox were resistant smallpox. He also points out that tuberculosis is caused by the micho bacterium a tuberculosis. And he lists several other examples,. Also discusses the idea popularized by agera diamond in guns germs and steel, that europeans brought with them their old world viruses.
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