This person was Louis Pasteur (1885) who created the ‘germ theory, ’ the idea that germs are floating around in the air and will attack us if we do not protect ourselves with pharmaceutical substances. [The Fraud of Louis Pasteur]
Pasteur, like many of us, wanted to be successful and prove his theories about dangerous germs were the cause of all human disease. Unfortunately he had an intelligent opposition named Antoine Beauchamp who completely rejected Pasteur’s ideas and put forward that the biological terrain of the being is the cause of disease, not the germ itself. Beauchamp believed that germs and parasites will only survive in acidic and unfavourable conditions and therefore mere exposure to germs is not enough to get sick.
Beauchamp believed,
“The primary cause of disease
is in us, always in us. ”
Antoine Beauchamp, 1883
As is often the case one man had a lot more support than the other at this time and this man was Louis Pasteur. His theory seemed to fit, people didn’t need to take responsibility for their own health any longer and the solution seemed easy enough to rectify, plus it would improve the economics of the country and provide thousands with new careers in the manufacturing, marketing, production and promotion of pharmaceuticals.
4 comments:
WOW, WOW, WOWWOW....WOW!!!!!
Yes, WOW. It's amazing how easy it is to pass off disproven hypothesis as fact when the target audience has no foundation in science.
Keep on making these boys angry DV! You and Beauchamp going continue to piss people off.
"The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger."
(W. Somerset Maugham)
First off it's Béchamp.
Second his hypothesis was disproven.
Third, nobody is pissed, scared, or angry.
You are comedy. You make us laugh.
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