By the 1730s a new type of disease was starting to pop up across Europe. Sufferers would lose their hair, develop lesions all over their body, lose their mental faculties and eventually die. The disease seemed to be linked to corn consumption. Corn was a new crop imported from the Americas only two centuries earlier. … Continue reading Is Rationality Overrated? What an 18th Century Medical Mystery Can Tell Us About the Power of Blind Copying