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Tuberculosis keeps coming up. It was deadly and recent and widespread, and it's implicated in the 'plausible mechanism' paper, and in the one about rheumatoid arthritis, and the other day I met an old friend with bladder cancer. Apparently he's having tuberculosis drugs injected to try to kill it. No one knows why, but it works about 30% of the time!
It would be way interesting if someone had statistics for ancient diseases and statistics for modern unexplained diseases. I've no idea what to predict, but I bet it's not 'no correlation'.
Have you seen Greg Cochran's paper on infections?
Yes, I based the entire second post on it, and referenced it. But thanks, that would have been really useful!
I just emailed the address on the paper (paul ewald) to see what they thought of it. But no reply. If anyone knows one of them could you tell them there's someone wrong on the internet?