I think we can agree that when people use the term "normal", it's frequently a code word for "right". I think a better term here is that -most- people think that germ theory was settled a while back. It wasn't, but germ theory has certainly become the mainstream view.
I would say germ theory is about as accepted as the round earth theory.
No, flat earthers were a very rare breed before Youtube. Youtube, with its flashy graphics, has given it what I believe is a brief revival, but when you actually look for -articles- from flat earthers, they're few and far between, not to mention of poor quality. According to physicist Sabine Hossenfelder, flat earthers took off with the rise of video media, first with Youtube and then with TikTok. She's done 2 videos on flat earthers, both of which I think were quite good. Here's the more recent one:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW6hgOc3wuI&ab_channel=SabineHossenfelder
In contrast to flat earthers, there are plenty of well researched articles explaining the lack of evidence that biological viruses aren't real. As I've menionted before, I made a thread referencing the group of researchers, many of which are medical experts, who persuaded me back in Covid times that while small microbes certainly exist and can be recorded with electron microscopes, there's no solid evidence that they have the characteristics that biological viruses are said to have. This thread can be seen here:
For a while, I've been debating with a certain someone in another thread regarding whether or not biological viruses are real. The thread has gotten rather large and we've been talking about several things in it. I think it makes more sense to separate the discussion on viruses into a thread of its own and will attempt to respond to posts on the subject in other thread here as well.
For those who are unfamiliar with the group of doctors and other professionals who have come to the conclusion that biological viruses aren't real, I invite you to take a look at the following 2 page statement...
Clearly person to person contagion happens
No, that's not clear at all, and therein is virology's biggest problem. Dr. Thomas Cowan and Sally Morell wrote a good book on the contagion myth. I got a copy a while back. It can be purchased on Amazon here:
Here's their summary of the book:
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For readers of Plague of Corruption, Thomas S. Cowan, MD, and Sally Fallon Morell ask the question: are there really such things as "viruses"? Or are electro smog, toxic living conditions, and 5G actually to blame for COVID-19?
The official explanation for today’s COVID-19 pandemic is a “dangerous, infectious virus.” This is the rationale for isolating a large portion of the world’s population in their homes so as to curb its spread. From face masks to social distancing, from antivirals to vaccines, these measures are predicated on the assumption that tiny viruses can cause serious illness and that such illness is transmissible person-to-person.
It was Louis Pasteur who convinced a skeptical medical community that contagious germs cause disease; his “germ theory” now serves as the official explanation for most illness. However, in his private diaries he states unequivocally that in his entire career he was not once able to transfer disease with a pure culture of bacteria (he obviously wasn’t able to purify viruses at that time). He admitted that the whole effort to prove contagion was a failure, leading to his famous death bed confession that “the germ is nothing, the terrain is everything.”
While the incidence and death statistics for COVID-19 may not be reliable, there is no question that many people have taken sick with a strange new disease—with odd symptoms like gasping for air and “fizzing” feelings—and hundreds of thousands have died. Many suspect that the cause is not viral but a kind of pollution unique to the modern age—electromagnetic pollution. Today we are surrounded by a jangle of overlapping and jarring frequencies—from power lines to the fridge to the cell phone. It started with the telegraph and progressed to worldwide electricity, then radar, then satellites that disrupt the ionosphere, then ubiquitous Wi-Fi. The most recent addition to this disturbing racket is fifth generation wireless—5G. In The Truth About Contagion: Exploring Theories of How Disease Spreads, bestselling authors Thomas S. Cowan, MD, and Sally Fallon Morell explore the true causes of COVID-19.
On September 26, 2019, 5G wireless was turned on in Wuhan, China (and officially launched November 1) with a grid of about ten thousand antennas—more antennas than exist in the whole United States, all concentrated in one city. A spike in cases occurred on February 13, the same week that Wuhan turned on its 5G network for monitoring traffic. Illness has subsequently followed 5G installation in all the major cities in America.
Since the dawn of the human race, medicine men and physicians have wondered about the cause of disease, especially what we call “contagions,” numerous people ill with similar symptoms, all at the same time. Does humankind suffer these outbreaks at the hands of an angry god or evil spirit? A disturbance in the atmosphere, a miasma? Do we catch the illness from others or from some outside influence?
As the restriction of our freedoms continues, more and more people are wondering whether this is true. Could a packet of RNA fragments, which cannot even be defined as a living organism, cause such havoc? Perhaps something else is involved—something that has upset the balance of nature and made us more susceptible to disease? Perhaps there is no “coronavirus” at all; perhaps, as Pasteur said, “the germ is nothing, the terrain is everything.”
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