Exactly. The elitist professor types (whose salaries we pay) will never go against one of their own and take the side of an 'outsider.' However, their sneering denial of your brilliant "Fatal Tractor Pull Injury" theory fell apart when amateur archaeologist Konstantin Zjurkenofonous discovered a 2,400-year old wooden Macedonian Harvester while digging near Corfu.
The dating of the tractor, the location in the heart of the Greek/Macedonian world, and the oft-ignored footnotes in the writings of Plutarch, the historian of record regarding the death of Alexander, describing the "broken breast-cage, shattered limbs which will carry him to no more victories on the field of battle nor the pulling of the great vehicles, and the loss of his great and glorious head, which shall slow his endeavors to the rate of we mere mortals..." is the most compelling evidence as to the actual cause of the warrior's death.
The silliness of the West Nile virus v. typhoid debate is infantile given Alexander the Great's widely-known natural immunities to all illnesses and STDs, inherited from his father, Cronos, the Greek god of time and agriculture. As any real historian knows, the god-men of the ancient world were only susceptible to death if inflicted by another equal being, if lured to impending doom by a Siren, or the tragic and usually-fatal, but oft-ignored, fatal tractor pull injury.
Your soon-to-be-published essay in the Fall 2004 issue of the Eastern Pennsylvania Quarterly of Ancient Motorized Agricultural Equipment should put to rest any debate on this subject.
As good as any Michael Moore set of facts. If he came out with that how many people would cite it as authority.