Oddbean

The Germ Theory vs. Terrain Theory stuff, and the idea that viruses don't exist. It's not that I don't want to know, I just haven't been ready to invest the mental energy yet and possibly upend my current beliefs. 🙃

Germ theory is a good one. @Byzantine posted some stuff ages ago and I conceded I couldn’t traverse that rabbit hole. Not sure I understand the science stuff behind it well enough to even dive in.

https://www.amazon.com/Can-You-Catch-Cold-Experiments/dp/1763504417 nostr:nevent1qqsr2dwgr3c9nv68kfxylpgypl4k4yz2ynhs7tx6rsecxx578ufnc9spzamhxue69uhkv6tvw3jhytnwdaehgu3wwa5kuegzyp72vm2pv6ck749pdp5pjxapccux49mxyn6xxnecjmvmvaq28zx2xqcyqqqqqqgt04uym

I read a book that basically said sickness is your body attempt to cleanse itself from toxicity. Changes in weather trigger it. And that your body expels a “virus” when it finishes the cleansing process the same way that you expel feces after eating. But the virus isn’t contagious and medicine suppresses this cleansing process which makes your body more toxic and more susceptible to having a worse sickness later on.

they have electron microscope images but they didn't isolate a virus and prove it was contagious prior to taking the image so we have no basis to conclude that the thing shown is a contagious virus (probably they are cell breakdown products from the cells they "culture" the "virus" in)

What they present as a virus are just protein cells, there are no electron images of viruses, the magnification is not enough. They Show a protein cell and say usually that the protein cells contain viruses, but no virus image of a virus itself . All CGI.

This is one I've come around on over the past couple years TLDR: Virology is pseuedoscientific and the viruses it finds are the products of the methods used When Germ Theory failed (eg Koch himself failed to develop cholera after drinking a bunch of cholera bacteria) they decided the germ agent must be too small to see even with a microscope The microscope images are from cells that are killed with antibiotics and antifungals, breaking down into a goop of sub-cellular items which are declared to be viruses (without proof) The gene sequences are from basically the same thing - they take a whole bunch of DNA, cut it into tiny bits, and then the computer assembles the tiny bits into the virus Experiments to spread contagious illness have failed, eg healthy volunteers spent time in a Spanish Flu (1918) ward and had sick mucus sprayed into their nose. None took ill. An example of the pseudo-scientific process: Pasteur was not able to induce rabies (a supposed neurological virus) with the saliva of rabid dogs, and could produce similar symptoms only by injecting matter from the rabid dog directly into the brain of healthy dogs. Maybe there are macro-parasites and thus contagion (eg ticks) but I am not aware of any germs which have been shown to cause illness.

3 causes of disease I can conceive: 1) Endogenous - the disease is somehow inside us all the time (eg genetic disorders) 2) Environmental - we are exposed to some sort of harmful condition (eg radiation, toxins, pathogens if any can be shown to exist) For example, paralitic polio was probably caused by the pesticide lead arsenate. 3) Deficiency - we lack some element for ideal health (eg some vitamin/mineral, sunlight, fresh water, etc) I suspect that in the case cold & flu illnesses the body is reacting to cold & diminished sunlight (and thus vitamin D conversion) during the winter months. If flu is caused by a virus, why is it seasonal? Why does the virus care how sunny it is or whether it's 30C or 10C outside?

Another cause: psychosomatic - you observe people having a certain illness and interpret your own difficulties to mirror that illness eg whether rabies "virus" causes you to fear water or to believe you are pregnant with a litter of puppies depends on what culture you're in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppy_pregnancy_syndrome But I do think there is some root biological condition to cold & flu

When it comes to the Germ Theory vs Terrain Theory, I'm not convinced it has to be one or the other. I tend to think that if we take proper care of our bodies, then the opportunistic germs are not a problem, but that they do exist and can cause problems in a body that isn't working right. That being said, it wouldn't surprise me if sometimes terrain problems (toxic foods, medicine, personal care items, EMF, etc.) get blamed on a virus that either doesn't exist or just doesn't cause the problem. I've read some stuff relating to AIDs that makes me think that HIV isn't the actual cause of AIDs and that it either has very little or nothing to do with it. I'm not positive about it though.