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, both creationists and germ theory deniers like to focus on Darwin and Pasteur, as if evolutionary theory and germ theory, respectively, had been frozen in amber sometime in the late 1800s and hadn't advanced enormously since then.
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Then, of course, there are the deathbed "recantations." Both creationists and germ theory deniers have spread stories of "death bed" conversions or recantations. Darwin, it was claimed by Elizabeth Cotton in 1915 (30 years after his death), had "recanted" on his deathbed.
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