For an interesting alternative theory of the plague, check out Diseases
>From Space by Fred Hoyle and N. C. Wickramasinghe, ISBN 0-06-011973-3
That's SIR Fred Hoyle, astronomer extraordinaire, Fellow of the Royal
Society. Wickramasinghe is head of the Department of Applied Mathematics
and Astronomy, University College, Cardiff.
The short version is they say it floated down from the sky. Their main
proof is an extraordinarily detailed statistical analysis of reported
cases which they cross match chronologically with known travel patterns.
The spend a great deal of time on a very convincing rebuttal of the notion
that the spottiness of plague incidence devolves from travel. It looks
good on the map, they say, but only if you ignore the dates.
They don't blame UFOs. They say bacteria can live in space and survive
entry into the atmosphere. They were going way out on a limb here and
jeopardizing their esteemed reputations. The book came out in 1979, long
before the fossilized microbes in the Martian meteorite found in
Antarctica brought the possibility of interplanetary, even interstellar,
panspermia into the public consciousness.
I have my doubts about their theory. They concentrated too much on Great
Britain, I feel. If one dates plague incidence all the way back, a clear
path of transmission leads back, by way of Venice, to Central Asia where
plague has a natural reservoir in a local ground squirrel whose name slips
my mind at the moment.
But I'm no epidemiologist, and my statistical analysis is pretty rusty and
was weak to begin with. So I don't know for sure how valid their argument
is. They certainly raise some interesting questions that conventional
plague theory can't answer.
In my more paranoid, speculative moments I wonder if perhaps Charles Fort
was right, and we are somebody property, a science project as it were, or
under the care of some sort of cosmic game warden. In that scenario, the
plague could have been a case of social engineering by way of population
control. Hey, it could happen.
But Occam is usually right and Occam says it was rat fleas. Until further
evidence appears, I'm going with Occam.
But hey, read the book anyhow. It'll sure make you think.
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