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by bondarchuk 1065 days ago
You do not have to know about germ theory to know that boiling water makes it safer to drink.

(Besides that I won't comment on the "medievals drank beer instead of water" controversy as I always see people on either side talking with equal confidence and plausibility)

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> equal plausibility

Not really. It’s a myth created in the early 1900s or maybe a few decades earlier.