The episode discusses an article arguing that the 1918 Spanish flu was a hoax engineered by politicians to justify war losses and promote germ theory. The author cites the "Rosenau Study," a 1919 experiment that he claims demonstrates the impossibility of disease transmission by biological pathogens. The study involved exposing healthy volunteers to infected fluids, which never produced a single case of influenza. The author argues that the death toll attributed to the Spanish flu is inflated and that the real causes of death were malnutrition, vaccinations, and medical treatments.
