Deep dive into stupid: Meet the growing group that rejects germ theory https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/08/deep-dive-into-stupid-meet-the-growing-group-that-rejects-germ-theory/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_source=twitter&utm_social-type=owned&utm_medium=social … by @BethMarieMole
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Indeed, germ theory denial has long been a "strain" in alternative medicine and antivaccine "thought" (if you can call it that). I first wrote about it 11 years ago, and it is not surprising that
#COVID19 cranks and antivaxxers have adopted it.https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/germ-theory-denialism-a-major-strain-in-alt-med-thought/ … -
Basically, germ theory denialists take "terrain theory," which claims that it is the "terrain," not the microbes, that makes one ill and was a competing theory contemporaneous with Pasteur, and claim that it is a better explanation for infectious disease than Pasteur's.
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what gets me is the irony - how antivaxers (and now germ theory deniers)- dont seem to acknowledge even the merest possibility that the REAL/much more likely conspiracy at play here, is to induce the ignorant proletariat to self-euthenize. ;)
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