John Sotos reckons that Abraham Lincoln had a rare, cancer-causing genetic disease. Brendan Maher talks to him about the diagnosis, and the ghoulish hobby of posthumous study.
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Maher, B. What Lincoln had. Nature (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2007.226
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