Self Forming Knowledge Networks - heretics, disease and the spread of information

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Title: Dangerous liaisons
Origin: New Scientist vol 179 issue 2408 - 16 August 2003, page 32

Author: Michael Brooks

Did the Inquisition fight heretics using the same science that we now use to
control disease?

Comments

[trrz]

I've read that book, it's one of the most interesting reads I've read in a long time. I've always despised the term "Dark Ages" and the Franciscan and Dominican orders are two of the reasons why, not to mention the Templar order of Knights.