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Miasma theory, the obsolete theory of disease that claimed that disease was spread via "bad airs", is commonly considered pseudoscience today despite having good qualities. In addition, it is unclear how this theory was rejected and replaced with Germ theory of disease, the theory we still hold today. My project applies several analytic philosophical accounts of theory change to this historic case including Popperian falsification and Kuhn paradigm shifting to explain how this event happened.