[Sam Cree]

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[RWG]

Post-Columbian indians have infected Europeans with tobacco and casinos.

[VOA]

About 50 scientists and scholars joined in the research and contributed chapters to the book.

Well, there are about 50 scientists and scholars that will find some rough going
by contradicting the liberal orthodoxy that the Native Americans were living in
"perfect balance" with each other and their bucholic environment.

It takes some guts for an academic to go against the current gospel...

[DBtoo]

Interesting topic and good article.

[JudyB1938]

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[Musket]

If Columbus didn't do it, somebody else would've.

[IronJack]

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[sharktrager]

their findings in no way mitigated the responsibility of Europeans as bearers of disease devastating to native societies

I would assume that the author's acknowledgement that the Europeans did not know (nor could they have known) that they were carrieng diseases that would kill the indians does mitigate their "responsibility".

At some point the indians were going to be exposed to these pathogens, and had it happened any time before the 20th century, the results would have been the same.

[BlueLancer]

Come on, now ... you know those sneaky Europeans. They probably sent their diseases over to the New World a few hundred years before Columbus arrived, so that the people of the New World would be weakened beforehand ...

[ZULU]

Did say anything about northeastern Amerindians. They were probably pretty healthy.
The same observations could be made for old world humans who moved from hunter gatherer to agricultural.