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Petra Liverani's avatar

Thank you again for your great work. It's so helpful to realise that so-called germ theory has been dogged by refutation from the getgo and that so-called anti-vaxxers don't only comprise parents worried for their children which is what the authorities would have us believe ... or now since covid that group extending to "conspiracy theorists".

In my article, 12 logical fallacies unmasked in the use of the terms "conspiracy theory" and "conspiracy theorist", the second logical fallacy is:

2. Only the majority expert voice counts, the minority expert voice is to be derided and ignored - the Appeal to Common Belief fallacy

https://petraliverani.substack.com/i/123858867/only-the-majority-expert-voice-counts-the-minority-expert-voice-is-to-be-derided-and-ignored-the-appeal-to-common-belief-fallacy

Prompted by your post, I've added the paragraph below with a link to my post listing covid dissenters with a separate list of those writing in the 19th/early 20th century taken from your article:

"Note: The claims of the alleged sciences of both virology and vaccinology based on Pasteur’s germ “theory” have been dogged by refutation from eminent doctors and scientists since the second-half of the nineteenth century; the notion of so-called anti-vaxxers comprising mostly modern parents concerned about their children suffering side-effects is pure propaganda."

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Jeffrey Strahl's avatar

GREAT one, Mike!!

One addition. You say at the end, "Had people actually listened to Dr. Snow and the many prominent voices speaking out against the unscientific germ theory of disease when it was first developed, perhaps this fraudulent house of cards would have never been built up in the first place. "

The crucial factor here was that Rockefeller interests were able to push measures which legally enshrined germ theory and gave it a monopoly over medical education and public health practice.

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