claim: Muhammad Ali is immune to Parkinson's disease.
evidence: Alexander Carpenter , Latinized as Fabricius -LRB- fl .. 1429 -RRB- , was the author of the Destructorium viciorum , a religious work popular in the 15th and 16th centuries .. Some published editions of the work bear the author 's name as `` Alexander Anglus '' -LRB- `` Alexander the Englishman '' -RRB- , but he is further identified in a 1496 edition which states that the work was compiled `` a cuiusdam fabri lignarii filio '' -- `` by a certain son of a worker of wood , '' i.e. , a carpenter 's son .. This identifier also states that the work was begun in 1429 , which rules out authorship by Alexander of Hales -LRB- ca. 1185-1245 -RRB- which had by some scholars been considered a possibility .. Alexander of Hales. Alexander of Hales. Alexander Carpenter authored other works , termed Homiliae eruditae -LRB- `` Learned Sermons '' -RRB- , but they are not at present known .. Carpenter is thought by some to have been a follower of the English theologian John Wycliffe -LRB- ca. 1328-1384 -RRB- , but that is disputed .. English. England. John Wycliffe. John Wycliffe