Germ theory denial is a major strain in antivaccine beliefs, and far more MDs than you’d think are open to such beliefs. They undergird antivax and alt med; you find them in antivax quacks and “integrative medicine” docs.https://twitter.com/SaadOmer3/status/1227333924650725376 …
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Béchamp argued instead that unfavorable host and environmental conditions (bad “terrain”) destabilize the host's native microzymas, whereupon they decompose host tissue by producing pathogenic bacteria from the tissue.
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A lot of modern germ theory denial invokes Béchamp. Now, at the time, given the tools and evidence available at the time, Béchamp’s ideas were not so ridiculous. They did ultimately lose out to Pasteur’s because the evidence didn’t support them and did support Pasteur.
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Instead he ARGUED the existence...
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