I don't think it was the paradoxes that were causing the health problems. My impression was that it was a side effect of their method of time travel. The farther back they go (like when trying to fix problems, which also happens to be when they would be most likely to introduce paradoxes) the higher the level of degradation. - Rooster

"I often wonder why Slashdot posts links to a version of the article formatted for printing rather than the main article." Because any time they link to the main article, everyone complains that they should link to the print version to avoid ads and multi-page crappiness. - Rooster