Science denialists and quacks love to abuse Koch's postulates to deny that various microorganisms are the true cause of disease; so it was inevitable (and no surprise) that they're doing it for #COVID19.https://respectfulinsolence.com/2020/12/18/quacks-misuse-kochs-postulates-to-deny-covid-19/ …
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I wonder: Is there another scientific field like microbiology and evolution, in which denialist cranks think that if they can find mistakes or holes in 19th century (or even earlier) science the will discredit the entire field?
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D'oh! How could I have forgotten? How could I have failed to mention cancer research, given how there are people who think that the trophoblastic theory of cancer is still a thing? (It was abandoned nearly 100 years ago.)
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Then there's "autointoxication" theory, the idea that disease is caused by "self-toxicity" resulting from a backup of feces in the colon? 120 years ago, surgeons removed colons and dentists pulled all the teeth to "cure" mental illness...
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“Fallacy.” You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

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Meanwhile, they play the lamest game in the book when it’s pointed out that they came back up what they say.
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Yeah, that's one of my pet peeves about creationist "logic". They figure if they somehow "debunk" or personally discredit Darwin, that all of the last 161 years of evidence and research (in multiple scientific fields) will just magically vanish. It's so laughably simplistic.
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I know a Muslim Creationist who said anyone can change Origin of Species but Allah preserves the Quran unchanged. He seemed to think OoS was Scripture. When Darwin wrote it, Mendelian genetics hadnt been discovered and of course is known to have some mistakes. It's not Holy Writ!
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Well, there are still flat-earthers... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_flat_Earth_societies … We did have this one in CA, flying his steam-powered rocket to prove Earth flat.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_flat_Earth_societies …
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