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Steve Falconer on the death of Germ Theory

JermBy Jerm8 Dec 2022Updated:14 Jul 2023
A dead virus

Officially, the Germ Theory Of Disease is the scientific theory that certain diseases are caused by microorganisms, also known as pathogens which are too small to be seen without a microscope, and they can invade humans, other animals, and other living hosts. Their growth and reproduction within their hosts can cause disease.

It was first proposed by Italian physician Girolamo Fracastoro in the 16th century, but it was not widely accepted until the 19th century. 

In the 1850s, Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis showed that handwashing could prevent the apparent spread of Puerperal Fever, a deadly infection that often killed women after childbirth. 

In the 1870s, German scientist Robert Koch developed a set of four postulates that can be used to prove that a particular microorganism causes a particular disease.

  1. The microbe must be found in all individuals with the disease, but not in healthy individuals.
  2. The microbe must be isolated from a diseased individual and grown in pure culture.
  3. When the microbe from the pure culture is inoculated into a healthy individual, the individual must develop the disease.
  4. The microbe must be re-isolated from the inoculated individual and shown to be the same microbe that was originally isolated.

Which is where things get fuzzy.

No virus, for example, has met the four postulates. 

And, as it turns out, neither has any bacterium.

As Steve Falconer – who produced a brilliant documentary on Germ Theory – points out in the following conversation with me, nobody is researching anything other than germs because that’s where the money is.

After all, vaccines and antibiotics are upstream from the medical industry.

If no germ has been shown to cause illness, then what causes illness?

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