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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Admittedly, there are degrees of germ theory denial. Usually such docs spout “soft denial” quoting Antoine Béchamp’s “the terrain is everything,” that posts that microbes can’t cause disease in a healthy host.
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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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Instead he ARGUED the existence...
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