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Yes, it's "obviously true" because of the confounding factors: bad air tends to go hand in hand with dirty water, contaminated food, and infection-carrying inse
by Joker_vD 6y ago
Yes, it's "obviously true" because of the confounding factors: bad air tends to go hand in hand with dirty water, contaminated food, and infection-carrying insects.
Neither cholera, malaria, typhoid nor plague are airborne, and yet their causes were ascribed to miasmata.
- goldenkey 6y agoRight but the metabolites produced by the bacteria are harmful in their own right. And let's be clear, there are many airborne contagions like the common cold that haven't been indexed through the centuries. It isn't a good idea to inhale shit air for days on end, just like it isn't a good idea to inhale car fumes for days on end. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volatile_organic_compound https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volatile_organic_compound