If you examine the Wikipedia entry for tuberculosis, you will discover one quarter of the world’s population are carriers of the bacteria which is thought to cause the disease. Wikipedia uses the World Health Organization’s fact sheet on tuberculosis (archive copy available here) as a reference for this information. It is obvious all these people do not get sick. The only conclusion is that the bacteria only proliferates after another problem, such as malnutrition. The World Health Organization lists this as a risk factor. This is one example illustrating the difference between the competing Germ and Terrain theories. The Germ Theory states disease is caused by pathogenic bacteria and viruses. The Terrain Theory states disease is caused by malnutrition, poor living conditions or exposure to toxic chemicals. There may well be some exceptions to the Terrain Theory such as hardy bacterial spores and Woolsorters’ disease.
Some types of bacteria can be harmful when conditions change to allow its rampant growth, formation of biofilms and the secretion of toxins i.e. they are not the initial cause of disease. Initial causes could be a physical injury, foreign matter inside the body, depletion of natural bodily defences or an insect bite. The Terrain Theory is a good model, but the overgrowth of bacteria, unclean conditions, wounds and their introduction into places they should not be can cause problems. Proponents of the Terrain Theory talk a lot of sense, but I wish they could add the caveat that bacteria may not be the initial cause of disease, but they can make it worse.
Bacteria do exist and can easily be seen with a light microscope. Much smaller viruses may not exist as you think. They may be attempts by the body to wall off toxins, transport vesicles budding off of cells or simply dead and decaying remnants of cells. So called viral diseases may have other causes. Read on for more details…
Viruses
Do viruses really exist? Are they a hoax which masks the real causes of sickness, which is exposure to synthetic chemicals? It is thought that the real cause of the disease polio was extensive use of the now banned insecticide DDT in the 1940s and 50s. DDT works by poisoning the insects’ nervous system. Polio is a disease of the human nervous system. Advertisements at the time stated insects caused disease and so DDT was used even inside homes.
In 1951, 1 in 79 US Military recruits stationed in the Philippines contracted the disease polio. All troops had to undergo complete body delousing with DDT. The incumbent Philippine people were not fumigated and were not affected by polio, despite contact with the soliders.
Warts could be caused by cosmetics, residues of cleaning chemicals on bathroom floors or sanitary products containing trace amounts of chemicals. Chickenpox could be caused by an adolescent growth spurt depleting the building blocks for blood vessels. The blood vessels leak causing fluid filled poxes on the skin. Is the fact people get chickenpox at the same time evidence for it being a contagious virus? Maybe they were vaccinated at the same time or maybe they are all at the same stage of life?
Science tells us viruses only harm one particular organ of the human body such as the liver. So how does the hepatitis virus travel from the mouth to the liver without destroying everything in its path? Viruses do not have legs! Could hepatitis be caused by seafood grown in polluted seas or a bad lifestyle (drug and alcohol abuse) rather than a virus?
Why do studies state Vitamin A helps measles in children under two years old? Is it likely Vitamin A will kill the measles virus? Viruses are just genetic information that uses the host cell’s own machinery to replicate. We might expect hurting a virus will hurt our own cells. Do you think measles could be a nutrient deficiency combined with something else such as a growth spurt or stress? On a similar note why so some say the amino acid lysine helps shingles?
There is the belief that influenza is a natural method for the body to get rid of air pollution and dust inhaled (or any other toxin ingested or injected) over the course of the past year by coughing and the expulsion of dirty mucus. Maybe a person inhaled very cold air, it damaged the lungs and the damaged cells need to be removed by coughing.
Flaws in scientific method
Scientists will produce lengthy and complex scientific publications trying to prove that disease-causing viruses exist. They will always have the same flaws.
- The published genetic (DNA or RNA) sequence of a virus does not prove it exists in reality. Viruses are sequenced from impure mixtures containing human DNA. Is the sequence from the virus, human DNA or both?
- When scientists try to prove viruses cause disease, they won’t use purified virus particles. The alleged viruses will be contained in a soup of laboratory culture cells, antibiotics and other chemicals. It is impossible to know what exactly caused the problems. Often test animals will be used with small lungs and have comparatively large volumes of fluid squirted into them. They will not perform controls with just large volumes of fluid minus the alleged virus particles.
- Viruses are introduced into test animals using surgery or harsh abrasion of their skin. Neither methods are natural routes for the entry of viruses and will cause problems by themselves.
- The best way to prove a virus is both contagious and causes disease is as follows. Put a sick animal next to a healthy, unvaccinated animal. Look for symptoms of disease in the initially healthy animal, such as coughing and fluid and inflammation in the lungs. However nobody has done this and found evidence proving viruses exist, are contagious and cause disease.
Lying with statistics
When examining graphs of deaths showing differences between unvaccinated and vaccinated populations, caution needs to be exercised.
Sometimes a person will not be classed as vaccinated until a certain number of days after the vaccination. So if he or she dies within 5 days of a vaccination it will be classed as an unvaccinated death.
Data may show unvaccinated deaths, but the reality may be the people were vaccinated and the vaccination records were never filed or could not be found.
Logical Thinking
A disease is a set of symptoms. Giving a name to a disease (or anything for that matter) does not tell you anything more about it. A name is just a label.
A person may get a disease called X and later recover. A few years later the person may get the exact same symptoms again, but this time around the disease is called Y. Perhaps the criteria for naming diseases is as below.
- If the person has symptoms A it is called disease X.
- If the person has symptoms A, but is vaccinated against disease X (or has had disease X before), then it is called disease Y.
Labels can cause confusion if you give them too much meaning. Muscle paralysis may be called polio in one circumstance and non-polio acute flaccid paralysis in another. It could be they have the same cause or different causes.
Some people say polio can’t have been caused by the banned insecticide DDT, because people got polio before DDT was invented. Well perhaps polio-like diseases have many different causes such as the toxic chemicals (arsenic, mercury etc.) in ancient cure-alls, along with DDT. It is important to note just because one of set of symptoms is given a specific name, does not mean it can’t really have many different causes.
Saying a person got disease X in the year 2000, but disease Y in the year 2003, could lead someone to say this proves immunity has been produced against disease X. The reality may be disease X and disease Y are exactly the same. They are not caused by a germ at all, but really by a lack of a certain vitamin or mineral or perhaps exposure to a toxic chemical. Perhaps the lack of a certain nutrient only causes a clinically visible disease when it is combined with something else, such as a massive growth spurt or stress.
If people in a group or household get sick at the same time it is not necessarily evidence for germs being contagious. It could be these people got vaccinated at the same time, took part in the same activities, had the same unhealthy habits, ate the same food or live in the same environment. Maybe the air conditioning or plumbing system was dirty and bacterial growth was unchecked. Small amounts of bacteria in balance with its environment may not be harmful, but its uncontrolled growth will be.
