# Trolls R Us redux \[Now the argument clinic\] **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 27, 2020, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349 "2020-06-27T06:30:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3424
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3424 "2021-05-27T00:14:06Z")
I can’t tell if this guy [shh1313](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shh1313) is trolling or is just fucking stupid as a box of hair: He first posts “new info” with a 14 year old article. When called on it, he posts a new article that has nothing whatsoever to do with the origin of the spanish flu. When I point this out, he apparently does not understand what I’m saying. My vote is fucking stupid, but you never know. > [@New Info On The 1918 Origins Of The Spanish Flu \[Article is from Jan 2014\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-info-on-the-1918-origins-of-the-spanish-flu-article-is-from-jan-2014/942921): > > " Historian [Mark Humphries](http://www.mun.ca/history/fac_staff/humphries.php) of Canada’s [Memorial University](http://www.mun.ca/) of Newfoundland says that newly unearthed records confirm that one of the side stories of the war—the mobilization of 96,000 Chinese laborers to work behind the British and French lines on World War I’s Western Front—may have been the source of the pandemic. Writing in the January issue of the journal [War in History](http://wih.sagepub.com/content/21/1/55.abstract?etoc), Humphries acknowledges that his hypothesis awaits confirmation by viral samples from flu victims. Such evidence would … --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349)._