Skeletons point to Columbus voyage for syphilis origins

Emory University ^ | December 20, 2011

[mamelukesabre]

It’s very strange that animals for the most part were never domesticated in the new world and that the wheel was never developed.

[molson209]

syphilis started during those long sea voyages

[molson209]

syphilis started during those long sea voyages

butt I could be wrong LOL

[Wordkraft]

They used to blame Europeans for bringing smallpox to the “pristine and innocent” New World... until a few years ago when proof was found in Peruvian mummies that smallpox was here at least 500 years before Columbus.

Another cliche bites the dust.

[BenLurkin]

Yes, especially considering how they were pretty good at math and astronomy.

Doesn’t make sense.

[BenLurkin]

res ipsa loquitor?

[djf]

Certainly possible.

That whole South America thing has had me wondering for years. Some of the monuments, roads, etc around Lake Titicaca are as impressive, if not more so, than anything found in Asia. Thousands of square miles of detailed, architected farmlands and terraces. The high altitude pics of the region are just mind boggling.

[PGR88]

My High School health/gym teacher used to tell us - when you have sex with someone, just remember you are having sex with everyone they also had sex with.

[Amberdawn]

The natives gave the world tobacco as well.

[Shimmer1]

I’m sorry, but this just cannot be true. It doesn’t fit the Leftist agenda.
So poof! it will disappear.

[Tallguy]

Can we start protesting the native Americans?

No. But if you & your descendants play your cards right, and are patient, you might be allowed to build a casino in your backyard.

[ichabod1]

But if he had not been molesting the wogs in the first place, he would not have contracted the disease!!! And brought it home to Isabella!

[SunkenCiv]

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[ichabod1]

post hoc ergo propter hoc? Something like that?

[ichabod1]

I mean, Post hoc ergo propter hoc? Something like that?

[ichabod1]

I should note that the fault may lie in the reportage... the actual study would have to make some sense to get by peer review. Possibly, the skeletons all showed markers of exposure to something no other contemporary skeletons of Europeans showed?

[ichabod1]

titi-caca. heh. heh.

[SoCal Pubbie]

They have found Inca (I think) toys with wheels but they never used the idea much, or at all, on a wider basis. Some say that's because the mountainous Peruvian terrain didn't lend itself to the use of wheeled carts but I find that dubious to say the least.

[Hot Tabasco]

The evidence keeps accumulating that a progenitor of syphilis came from the New World with Columbus' crew

Translation: WASP Honkey.........

[decimon]

The evidence keeps accumulating that a progenitor of syphilis came from the New World with Columbus' crew

Translation: WASP Honkey.........

OSIC (Olive Spanish Italian Catholic).