John Snow Versus ‘The Science’

John Snow Versus ‘The Science’
The book cover of “Fear of a Microbial Planet: How a Germophobic Safety Culture Makes Us Less Safe” by Steve Templeton, published by Brownstone Institute. Brownstone Institute
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The following is adapted from Chapter 4 of the author’s book “Fear of a Microbial Planet: How a Germophobic Safety Culture Makes Us Less Safe.”

When cholera broke out in London in the first half of the nineteenth century, experts were quick to place the blame on miasma—the accumulation of toxic gases and odors within the atmosphere they claimed was responsible for a host of human misery.

Steve Templeton
Steve Templeton
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Steve Templeton, senior scholar at Brownstone Institute, is an associate professor of microbiology and immunology at Indiana University School of Medicine—Terre Haute. His research focuses on immune responses to opportunistic fungal pathogens. He has also served on Gov. Ron DeSantis’s Public Health Integrity Committee and was a co-author of “Questions for a COVID-19 commission,” a document provided to members of a pandemic response-focused congressional committee. Follow him on Substack.
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