people remember John Snow and the broad street pump as this triumph of epidemiology and the germ theory of disease but the truth is, the medical establishment swept it under the rug after the cholera outbreak subsided because people don't want to believe in contagion
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the miasma theory is just too attractive it shows you an enemy you can fight in intuitive, instinctive ways: avoid poor people and bad smells, seek out environments that make you feel nice that is, it taps in to the (notoriously buggy) behavioral immune system
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