[Strategerist]

An American Indian disease wiped out a third of Europe, to the great embarrassment of liberals

Umm...Syphilis never remotely "wiped out a third of Europe."

I think you're confusing the Plague and Syphilis.

You'll drive yourself insane if you view everything through politics. The debate over the origin of Syphilis was simply a scientific debate; there are a lot of them, and people thought they had legitimate evidence it may have been in Europe prior to Columbus. It wasn't some vast left-wing conspiracy.

[kbennkc]

Syphilis can cause insanity can it not ?

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Not true...Europe had finally begun to recover from the Black Death of the bubonic plague in the middle 1300’s, which had killed fully half of all Europeans. Once again, Europe was ravaged by a plague now known as morbus gallicus, the French Disease. It would kill one third of the entire population of Europe.

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You'll drive yourself insane if you view everything through politics.

Typical Liberal comment.

(Just kidding)

[YOUGOTIT]

Umm...Syphilis never remotely “wiped out a third of Europe.”

I thought it did but maybe I read the wrong docs many years ago. Seems as though it was between the many “Black Death” plagues.