You're right, you don't. But you may find it hard to persuade others that your points of view are right without it.
Nah. I just can't change your religion.
I can point out the ridiculousness of it though.
A virus exists by definition.
You're right, you don't. But you may find it hard to persuade others that your points of view are right without it.
I don't need evidence.
You're right, you don't. But you may find it hard to persuade others that your points of view are right without it.
Nah. I just can't change your religion.
You are correct. Unsubstantiated assertions don't help your position.Unsubstantiated assertions don't help your position.
LOL. There is no mention that it applies to viruses either. Viruses were unknown at the time so it certainly wasn't created with viruses in mind.From Wikipedia:
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Koch's postulates (/kɒx/ KOKH)[2] are four criteria designed to establish a causal relationship between a microbe and a disease.
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Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch's_postulates
There's no mention that it was designed specifically for bacteria, only microbes. Alleged viruses certainly qualify there.
It doesn't suggest it at all. All the other evidence points to viruses existing. Picking out one thing and claiming that is proof of non existence is false logic on your part. Bacteria is invisible to the naked eye. Does that mean everything visible to the naked eye doesn't exist?I never said it did. Unicorns might be real too. The issue is not whether applying Koch's postulates on a microbe and coming up empty proves that the microbe doesn't exist, but it -does- strongly suggest it.
You are simply attempting to take facts in isolation. That is a common used by conspiracy nuts. They cherry pick the data that supports their idiocy and ignore all the other facts. Then they switch back and forth between which facts they ignore depending on which argument they are making. You are giving us a fine example of that.What I wanted a few posts ago was to get to the point of Koch's postulates rather than being hung up on the postulates themselves. Their purpose is to try to find out whether or not a given microbe causes disease. At present, I just wanted to point out that Koch's postulates call for not just the isolation of a microbe, but the re-isolation of said microbe after going through some steps.
Apparently you are not familiar with logic or history or fact or fiction. Science changes when the preponderance of facts no longer fit the theory.Agreed. They are not microbes either. Apparently you missed that part of Koch's postulates.
The signatories of the statement have simply ignored many known facts and used equivocation and ignorance to advance their "theory." In science, nothing is ever really proven. Instead they use the theory that best fits the evidence. The best theory that fits the facts is that viruses exist. Claiming they don't exist without presenting an alternative theory that fits the facts better is nothing but bullshit. You seem to thrive on bullshit, eating it morning, noon and night and regurgitating it those times as well.You may have noticed that proving -anything- is pretty hard to do. The signatories of the statement referenced in the opening post never claim that they have proven that an alleged virus has never been isolated. Instead, they challenge anyone in the world to try to ascertain that a virus anywhere has ever been isolated. So far, it appears that no one's been able to do this.
You may find the following article educational:
A Story About Polio, Pesticides and the Meaning of Science | Children's Health Defense
What is ridiculous is that they can't explain reality better than virus theory.
What is ridiculous about them is they rely on fallacies.
What is ridiculous about them is you can't defend them with any facts or logic.
Unsubstantiated assertions don't help your position.
You are correct. Unsubstantiated assertions don't help your position.
Apparently not always:
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Even Robert Koch himself had difficulty with his own Postulates which led him to wiggle around some of them in attempts to “prove” pathogenicity of certain bacteria.
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Source:
Thomas Rivers Revision of Koch’s Postulates (1937) | viroliegy.com
True, but they are still microbes, which is what Koch's postulates were for. I think that the article from viroliegy referenced above provides a good summation for why Koch's Postulates were ditched for viruses:
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By 1937, it was very clear that virologists were unable to satisfy any of Koch’s Postulates in order to prove invisible particles assumed to be “viruses” existed and could cause disease. Even Robert Koch himself had difficulty with his own Postulates which led him to wiggle around some of them in attempts to “prove” pathogenicity of certain bacteria. Instead of accepting that the Postulates, as originally stated, worked and disproved the Germ Theory, virologists looked to various indirect immunological methods to prove their claims.
This led to Thomas Rivers and his own attempts to water down Koch’s Postulates by revising them to allow virologists even more wiggle room and expanding the 4 Postulates to 6. Unfortunately for all of virology, Koch had unintentionally trapped them in a logical prison for which they still can not free themselves from. If virologists deny Koch’s original Postulates, they are denying logic itself.
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If we follow your logic, since the current theory breaks down in a black hole then we should not believe any physics.Yes, physics predicted it, but it's also been said that physics break down in black holes:
How physics breaks down in a black hole | phys.org
Clearly, the laws of physics can't be the complete picture if they break down there- that's what I was trying to get at, that Koch's postulates should work for any microorganism regardless of the fact that they weren't discovered until after Koch formed his postulates. In any case, as an aside, just found this interesting article on black holes that came out about a week ago:
Scientists find first evidence that black holes are the source of dark energy | phys.org
I think you're confusing Rivers with Koch. As to River's conclusions that a new set of postulates were needed for alleged biological viruses, I think that the viroliegy article sums up the reason for that quite aptly in the last bit that I quoted in it:
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All Rivers did was deliberately weaken Koch’s Postulates in order to make life easier for virologists to skirt around established rules of logic. Anyone claiming that they fulfilled Koch’s Postulates by using the criteria laid forth by Rivers are outright lying and being intentionally fraudulent…which in all honesty, sums up virology to a T.
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Source:
Thomas Rivers Revision of Koch’s Postulates (1937) | viroliegy.com
You have not substantiated what causes the diseases if not viruses.
You have not substantiated where the RNA comes from that is attributed to viruses
Not biological ones, no. You're confusing my belief on this with that of Arthur Firstenberg's, at least at the time that he published his Invisible Rainbow book. Apparently you either didn't read or forgot about how I prefaced my quote from his book. Once more:
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Note that the author still believes in viruses, but believes that the triggering factor is not the alleged flu virus, but rather EMFs
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The fact that Mr. Firstenberg believed and perhaps still believes that biological viruses exist doesn't take away from the evidence he presented that in the case of the flu, EMFs apparently play the most important role in the flu disease.
Again with the insults -.-. I'll let this one go, but you're pushing it.
I never said that proteins could be "grown" in a culture. I simply said that they can be isolated or purified. Wikipedia has an article on this here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_purification
Feel free to look for an equivalent process for biological viruses.
Nanofiltration
Virus removal processes using nanofiltration techniques[4] remove viruses specifically by size exclusion. This type of process is typically used for parvoviruses[5] and other viruses containing a protein coat. A typical HIV virion is 180 nm and a typical parvovirus can vary between 15 and 24 nm, which is very small. One great advantage of filtration, as opposed to methods involving extremes of temperature or acidity, is that filtration will not denature the proteins in the sample. Nanofiltration is also effective for most types of proteins.
Chromatography
Chromatographic methods of removing viruses are great for purifying the protein and are also effective against all types of viruses, but the level of virus removal is dependent on the column composition and the reagents that are used in the process.
Membrane chromatography is increasingly popular for virus purification and removal.
You have not substantiated why each virus has a unique RNA sequence.
Nice deflection, but it doesn't change the fact that you haven't substantiated the 3 assertions you made in your last post that I've quoted above.
It is actually you who hasn't substantiated that any alleged "unique" RNA sequence comes from any alleged virus.
Dr. Mark Bailey gets into the deceptions involved in the alleged sequencing of viruses in his essay A Farewell to Virology-Expert Edition. Quoting from it:
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METAGENOMIC SEQUENCING — VIROLOGY’S FINAL GASP?
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It is pointed out that with regard to virology, a far bigger concern than "computing resources" is that a process that can be employed for sequencing genetic material of known provenance (e.g. human, bacterial, and fungal cells) has morphed into algorithmic assembly of genetic fragments of unknown provenance.
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The RNA sequences are unique. I have provided a link to the database that contains over 6,000,0000 of those sequences unique to the different viruses.It is actually you who hasn't substantiated that any alleged "unique" RNA sequence comes from any alleged virus.
For those not familiar with the term substantiate in this context, here's the definition that applies from Merriam-Webster:
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to establish by proof or competent evidence
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https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/substantiate
I don't think I've ever claimed to have proof of evidence, so I'd be using the 'competent evidence' meaning.
I believe I've provided competent evidence that diseases attributed to viruses are in fact caused by environmental factors such as toxins [albeit in another thread post, this one: The Federal Government Is Tracking the Unvaccinated | Mercola.com, Post #43) and EMFs (Post #502).
RNA is everywhere life is. From Wikipedia:
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Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is a polymeric molecule essential in various biological roles in coding, decoding, regulation and expression of genes. RNA and deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) are nucleic acids. Along with lipids, proteins, and carbohydrates, nucleic acids constitute one of the four major macromolecules essential for all known forms of life.
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Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA
The onus is on virologists to provide competent evidence that the RNA they find actually comes from any alleged virus.
It's not me that is so cavalier as to not need evidence for my beliefs. This made me think of a quote from one of Frank Herbert's Dune books:
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Religion is the emulation of the adult by the child. Religion is the encystment of past beliefs: mythology, which is guesswork, the assumptions of trust in the universe, those pronouncements which men have made in search of personal power, all of it mingled with shreds of enlightenment. And always the ultimate unspoken commandment is "Thou shall not question!" But we question. We break that commandment as a matter of course. The work to which we have set ourselves is the liberating of the imagination, the harnessing of imagination to humankind's deepest sense of creativity.
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For those not familiar with the term substantiate in this context, here's the definition that applies from Merriam-Webster:
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to establish by proof or competent evidence
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Source:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/substantiate
I don't think I've ever claimed to have proof of evidence, so I'd be using the 'competent evidence' meaning.
I believe I've provided competent evidence that diseases attributed to viruses are in fact caused by environmental factors such as toxins [albeit in another thread post, this one: The Federal Government Is Tracking the Unvaccinated | Mercola.com, Post #43) and EMFs (Post #502).
RNA is everywhere life is. From Wikipedia:
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Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is a polymeric molecule essential in various biological roles in coding, decoding, regulation and expression of genes. RNA and deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) are nucleic acids. Along with lipids, proteins, and carbohydrates, nucleic acids constitute one of the four major macromolecules essential for all known forms of life.
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Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA
The onus is on virologists to provide competent evidence that the RNA they find actually comes from any alleged virus.
You're a liar. You do not question your religion. You're a fundamentalist.
Man made god, god did not make man.