Vitalism goes back a long way.
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Denial of germ theory dates back to Pasteur’s first proposing it. Béchamp was a rival of Pasteur white idea was that it wasn’t the microbes that actually cause disease but that they were a manifestation of disease.
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Basically, Béchamp argued that bacteria could not invade a healthy animal and cause disease. Instead he parlayed the existence of “microzymas” (tiny enzymes) as the elementary units of life.
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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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That was Béchamp’s hypothesis, pleomorphism.
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It can go beyond bacteria though. The bacteria > fungus > cancer progression.
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This is a common bit of cancer quackery that I first learned about over a decade ago.https://respectfulinsolence.com/2014/01/03/a-fungus-among-us-in-oncology-2014-edition/ …
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