Dna Reveals the Real Killers That Brought Down Napoleon's Army
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A study used DNA analysis to identify the pathogens that contributed to Napoleon's army's downfall, sparking discussion about the credibility of the source and the actual research.
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I think it's weird that what was submitted to HN was a blog post on what claims to be a web site about vaccines, but has no contact information.
Is this the new thing? Have AI rewrite a news article and spam news aggregators to get inbound links from places like HN to boost your domain's profile and then sell it?
Actual news article (submitted 16 hours earlier): https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025/10/24/napoleons-...
It seems like a good-enough blog post and doesn't sound AI-written to me. But I agree that the wapo article is probably better, so we'll re-up https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45699285 and merge the comments thither.