I'm Not a Professional Blogger. » Studies that Hopefully Weren’t Publicly Funded http://www.bidsaahieln.com But I Did Stay At A Holiday Inn Express Last Night Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:31:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Study: Strep May Have Killed Mozart http://www.bidsaahieln.com/study-strep-may-have-killed-mozart/ http://www.bidsaahieln.com/study-strep-may-have-killed-mozart/#comments Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:31:12 +0000 Tony http://www.bidsaahieln.com/?p=34 Researchers from the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands have announced that they believe that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart may have died from a strep throat infection at the age of 35 in 1791.

In a slightly less formal study I did, I found that no one cares.  Nor should they.

And I can only hope that no government agency funded the research that led to this conclusion.

I’m all for studying and learning from history–especially if it leads us to not make mistakes, or go through situations we have in the past.  But studying what killed one guy over 200 years ago?  Especially when you will never conclusively prove anything?  What good does that do?

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