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Or chew gum with xylitol (It's actually natural birch sugar) that will heighten the PH level and kill germs.

Wasn't hackernews just all up in arms about the US military spreading germs to test bioweapons?

If you start talking about germs spreading disease, people are going to assume you are talking about demons and are possessed.

Back in the 80s, the concern was not germs, but heavy metals.

Does he want you to come in and cough your filthy germs into the rest of the office, or to take the day off entirely?

It's the best on the subject since Guns, Germs and Steel.

It is no different than people who are afraid of germs and are incessantly cleaning their living spaces or sanitizing their dishes in an autoclave.

They know germs can kill them, they know they can't see or feel or taste germs they might be ingesting or coming into contact with, so they spend all sorts of time and energy on eliminating germs.

No, not in the strict sense, germs really can kill them.

Let's start with the assumption (not necessarily true) that one who drinks from a public water fountain consumes significantly more germs than one who drinks bottled water.

While much of his work has been disputed So it would be a waste of time to read Guns Germs and Steel, since it is mostly disputed?

I read 'Guns, Germs and Steel' by Jared Diamond in College and it is single handedly the most insightful book I have ever read.

The Germ theory: >"Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction." -- Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872.

His "Guns, Germs, and Steel" carefully selects evidence supporting his geo-determinism theory.

Obviously there aren't "stress germs" being passed around, but one stressed member of a team can cause stress and poor peformance in other members of the team.

First off, the medical science is itself based on wrong theories, see what Pasteur himself had to say "Terrain is everything, the Germ is nothing", yet the medical industry is hell bent on developing cures based on germs.

[1] This is the framing of Jared Diamond's book Guns, Germs, and Steel.

In other words, Guns, Germs, and Steel argues persuasively that environmental factors played a major role in observed group outcomes, but it does not argue persuasively (or at all) that those environmental factors left no imprint on the genomes of the groups in question.

He is the author of Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed and the widely acclaimed Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, which won him a Pulitzer Prize as well as Britain's 1998 Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize.