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Talk:Essay:Greatest Myths of World History (view source)
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:::::When and where "germ theory" was "discovered" is not the point I think. Besieging armies had been catapalting plague-ridden corpses over city and castle walls for many centuries, and even when there was no plague, the effect of a putrifying animal flung by trebuchet into the defenders' water supply was well known throughout the Middle Ages. I have always tended to think the deliberate use of pox-ridden blankets was either a myth, or at most a very scarce occurrence, but there were certainly precedents. [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 00:41, 19 March 2009 (EDT)
:::::When and where "germ theory" was "discovered" is not the point I think. Besieging armies had been catapalting plague-ridden corpses over city and castle walls for many centuries, and even when there was no plague, the effect of a putrifying animal flung by trebuchet into the defenders' water supply was well known throughout the Middle Ages. I have always tended to think the deliberate use of pox-ridden blankets was either a myth, or at most a very scarce occurrence, but there were certainly precedents. [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 00:41, 19 March 2009 (EDT)
:::::: I'm with you-- I have no idea what difference germ theory could possibly make-- I pointed that out above. Basically, I add information to the article, and [[user:Aschlafly]] takes it away-- only now, it's a myth perpetuated by "Anti-Christians". [[User:Pepperlynn|Pepperlynn]] 20:21, 19 March 2009 (EDT)