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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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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The main scientist promoting terrain theory was Antoine Béchamps, a respected scientist at the time, and in fairness at the time the idea that microbes arose from diseased tissue rather than causing the disease was not entirely unreasonable based on 19th century science.
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