EH Ackernecht, writing about anticontagionists in the 19th century said “that the anticontagionists were usually honest men and in deadly earnest is shown, among other things, by the numerous self-experiments to which they submitted themselves to prove their contentions.”
Many leading anticontagionists were outstanding scientists who advocated for observation and research and were opposed to outdated authoritarian systems and medieval superstitions.
In sharp contrast Louis Pasteur, father of the germ theory, was known to be a self promoting fraud and plagiarist. In spite of this he became a well connected celebrity of his time and was hailed as a great scientist. He gave rise to the germ theory of disease which for over a century has dominated the practice of Western medicine.
The contagionists, advocated for bureaucratic control and quarantines, ostensibly to control the supposed spread of disease, but in reality as a means to control and contain the rapidly growing class of merchants and industrialists.
Anticontagionists were not just scientists, they were also progressive reformers, fighting for the freedom of the individual and commerce against establishment despotism.
They regarded quarantines as amoral, ineffective, deadly, and economically damaging. They believed that “filth” resulting from poor living conditions and poor sanitation caused most disease rather than germs transmitted from person to person.
Germ theory versus terrain theory is a complicated topic for another time. Viral theory is less complicated since unlike bacteria, fungi, yeasts, and parasites, viruses don’t actually structurally exist as advertised and so cannot possibly cause disease.
One of the fundamental assumptions of virology is the transmission of disease from person to person. According to virologists, viruses enter the body and replicate inside the cells and are then spread from person to person through airborne droplets, sexual contact, and exposure to bodily fluids containing the alleged virus.
Our own experience tells us that often people, who work or live together, develop symptoms of disease at the same time which fits with what we are told by virologists. Surely transmission of viral disease must have been scientifically proven numerous times right? Wrong. Nothing could be further from the truth.
There are many different reasons to believe that virology is a fraudulent pseudoscience but the repeated failure to scientifically prove contagion or the transmission of these diseases from individual to individual is one of the most compelling reasons....<<<Read More>>>....