OPINION
Anyone who thinks science is pure and incorruptible has clearly never studied the history of science. From Phrenology to Lysenkoism, Glacial Cosmology to Cold Fusion, science is littered with frauds and vicious ideologues. Certainly, the self-correcting nature of science means that they get weeded out – eventually – but the fact remains that scientists are people, as prone to lying and self-delusion as any others. Especially when ideology gets involved.
Even more so when lying mainstream media stick their noses in.
German scientists enthusiastically promulgated the absurd racial theories of the Nazis. Today, too many more scientists are peddling every bit as absurd guff about race, even if they claim to do so as ‘anti-racism’. For example:
Historians have long debated where [syphilis] came from, and the timing of Columbus’ return, along with racist and xenophobic ideologies, had many pointing the finger at the New World.
Yet, as the article admits, the first European outbreak of syphilis began a year after Columbus returned from the Americas. Possibly a coincidence, but: “racist and xenophobic ideologies”? The only racism in this case was Europeans blaming each other. Depending on where you lived, it was the “Italian Pox”, or the “French Pox”, and so on.
Now, an international team of researchers has uncovered the oldest case of a syphilis-like disease, and it seriously undermines the so-called Columbian hypothesis.
Except that it doesn’t.
Genetic analysis of 2,000-year-old bones found in Brazil has revealed an ancient bacterial subspecies of syphilis, which also causes bone lesions. This bacterial species belongs to the genus Treponema, same as the bacterium that causes syphilis, but it is most closely related to another modern pathogen that causes a disease called bejel […]
The discovery of a bejel-like disease in pre-Columbian Brazil is a surprise. It suggests that while treponemal diseases existed in South America a thousand years before Columbus’ arrival, they were not the same as the venereal disease that later struck Europe.
Well, gosh, diseases evolve? No! As we’ve seen with Covid, diseases can mutate and evolve very rapidly. The existence of treponemal diseases like syphilis a thousand years before the disease arrived in Europe, doesn’t “seriously undermine the Columbian hypothesis” at all. At most, as the study authors actually say, it “leaves the origin of the sexually transmitted syphilis still unsettled”.
So, what does this study show?
Finding an ancient bejel-like disease in a humid area far from the arid homelands of its modern counterpart suggests that the earliest treponemes were widespread and able to adapt to various climates and geographic locations.
Some human bones found in a Mexican cave show lesions like syphilis that date back 9,900 years. Perhaps they were also caused by a bejel-like disease.
Or, perhaps they were caused by syphilis.
Either way, it seems clear that diseases closely related to syphilis were endemic to the Americas for millennia.
That doesn’t stop politically-correct scientists and lying hacks from trying to blame it all on them wicked whities.
As it turns out, the origins of syphilis may not be confined to just one place or one time. Perhaps that first outbreak in Europe was due to a mutation in a treponeme that had existed in that area or nearby for millennia.
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Or perhaps it was an outbreak of syphilis.
Even if it was a case of a bacterium brought to Europe by Columbus, which rapidly mutated into the syphilis we try not to know today, the fact remains that it was probably still brought to Europe by Columbus.
And so what? It’s not as if the wily Indians knowingly infected the whities, any more than the Conquistadors deliberately infected the Indians with influenza.
When two groups of long-isolated peoples come into contact, they’re going to share everything – including their diseases. It’s just what happens.
The desperation of some scientists and the media to try and pin some sort of ‘blame’ on white people is just as ‘racist’ as any syphilitic Renaissance Neapolitan trying to blame their interesting new itch on those damn Frogs.