Rickets and Neandertals

If, as creationist Marvin Lubenow claims in Bones of Contention, rickets is virtually an unknown disease nowadays, why is it so easy to get information about it, along with X-rays of modern cases? Enter "rickets" into a web search engine, and you'll find more than you probably ever wanted to know about it. (Lubenow, like many creationists, claims that Neandertals are normal humans afflicted with diseases such as rickets)

Answers to Unknown Case 42: A page on rickets used as teaching material for radiology. It contains a detailed description of rickets along with photos. The text makes it clear that the author has encountered cases of rickets.
How to Prevent Rickets in Breastfed Babies: Public health information from Seattle, where the low amount of sunlight increases the risk of rickets.
More rickets cases (in French): More teaching material, this time from the University of Rennes.
Disney Encyclopedia of Children's Health
Health Central: Babies Need More Vitamin D
Rickets case study

Although rickets is certainly an uncommon disease nowadays, these pages demonstrate that rickets is not only well known to the medical profession, but routinely taught to medical students. Many medical textbooks (and veterinary ones; animals get rickets too) have a description of it.

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This page is part of the Fossil Hominids FAQ at the talk.origins Archive.