Neither Sir Fred Hoyle nor Chandra Wickramasinghe could possibly be described as cranks. Scientifically qualified up to their eyeballs, eminent in fields such as astrobiology and the Big Bang Theory, they together penned a 1979 book which caused a considerable amount of controversy. Its title was Diseases In Space, the essence of which was that diseases which afflict humans have extraterrestrial sources. The likes of the flu and the common cold result from "pathogenic patches" that fall from space.
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