Not sure how you arrived at that conclusion. As I've explained to you before, I don't have to believe that unicorns exist in order to believe that they would be a mamallian species closely related to horses if they did, in fact, exist.
Circular reasoning. Unicorns are imagined as a horse with a horn. If the majority of people imagined unicorns as a lizard with a horn then you couldn't argue that they were mammals since you are relying solely on your opinion and not on any facts. You have posted on more than one occasion about how some virologists have claimed viruses aren't subject to Koch's postulates and argued that this is somehow proof that viruses don't exist. But the reality is it undermines your argument that all microbes must be subject to Koch's postulates. You are conducting
pseudo-science in that you have come up with a belief and then claim if reality doesn't comply with your belief then it can't be true. That isn't how science works. In science when an hypothesis is shown to be falsified, the hypothesis is modified. In
pseudo-science when the hypothesis is shown to be falsified, the claim is the falsification must be wrong.
As I've pointed out numerous times, the authors of the statement referenced in the opening post have set up a method wherein the existence of biological viruses could be tested for. To date, I don't believe that any virologists have tried to test for viruses. This may be because of the failures that virologists have had in the past to try to provide evidence that viruses actually exist, which is something that authors of the statement also bring up.
And I have pointed out numerous times, the author's test is
pseudo-science.
Here is your logic and how it fails.
A is a living creature that is not a microbe and can't be grown in culture.
B is a living creature that is a microbe and can be grown in culture.
C may or may not be a microbe.
therefor
For C to be a living creature it must be grown in culture as if it was a microbe.
That logic is pseudo-science.
One thing that I think that all reasonable people can agree on is that a biological entity has to be microscopic in order to be classified as a microbe. Humans don't qualify.
More
pseudo-science from you. You are attempting to classify something before you know if it exists or what properties it has.
The main problem when it comes to virologists is that they've done precious little testing and the testing they've done has been pseudo scientific. I believe Dr. Mark Bailey makes this quite clear in the essay of his that i keep on referring to. Others may judge for themselves ofcourse.
Wow. Nice bullshit. And that statement is nothing but bullshit. If they have done almost no testing then why are there over 15 million contributions of Covid-19 sequencing in the GISAID database? I don't think you know what little testing means. Little testing would be what Dr Bailey has done since he has not done a single test.
I was trying to explain why I disagreed with this notion that viruses shouldn't be classified as microbes. In any case, I think it's been established at this point that not everyone agrees that these alleged biological viruses shouldn't be classified as microbes.
If you think something doesn't exist, then how can you classify it? To try to classify something that doesn't exist is
pseudo-science since you can't falsify your claim.
Let me give you an example.
You claimed that unicorns are mammals. Propose a test to falsify your claim. If you can't propose a test that can actually be conducted then you are conducting
pseudo-science.
Now. You claim that viruses do not exist. Then you claim if they did exist they would be microbes. Propose a test to falsify your claim about something that doesn't exist.. You can't propose such a test since any test would violate your claim that viruses don't exist. That means your argument is
pseudo-science.