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"All of this, by the way, is a carry-over from germ theory. Modern medicine has its roots in germ theory and the discovery of antibiotics. When penicillin was discovered, it was a true breakthrough, because doctors could use a drug to eliminate a true disease. The germ theory does not apply to metabolic disorders This model of using chemicals to eliminate a disease has been carried over into every disease today, even diseases that have no infectious origin." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"If a doctor could not definitively name at the bedside, by observing and questioning the patient, the disease from which its occupant suffered, without relying on a faceless technician totally unaware of the patient's particular circumstances, then how would patients be able to trust in medical authority? Both germ theory and the labs that put it into practice played active and highly visible roles in imperialism, and in India." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"A recent report from the American Society of Microbiology highlights how widely this "new germ theory" applies to some thirty viral and bacterial microorganisms for which there exists strong evidence of an association to chronic disease." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Above all, he would have learned that it was interfering with government-led efforts to control the epidemic spread of infectious disease by educating the Chinese people in modern germ theory.54 What changed everything was the 1949 Communist revolution, spearheaded by Mao Tse-Tung. Initially, Mao had taken the same scornful view of traditional medical practitioners as the republican government, at one point famously comparing them to "circus entertainers, snake oil salesmen, and street hawkers"—a comment that ended up in Mao's Little Red Book, read by millions of Chinese." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"Otherwise, we all would have been taught long ago how to stay healthy or how to recover our health if we have fallen ill. The germ theory of disease upon which almost the entire modern medical system is based, was postulated by the French chemist Louis Pasteur in the latter part of the 19th century. Although Pasteur admitted on his deathbed that his theory was wrong, the whole world had already accepted and begun to perpetuate the myth of the germ theory of disease. Pasteur finally realized that germs cannot cause infection without an underlying reason." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"Germs remained dogmatic as well as experimental entities; indeed, one doctor echoed the catechism in expressing his own allegiance to germ theory: I hold that every contagious disease is caused by the introduction into the system of a living organism or microzyme, capable of reproducing its kind, and minute beyond all reach of sense. I hold that as all life on our planet is the result of antecedent life, so is all specific disease the result of antecedent specific disease. I hold that as no germ can originate de novo, neither can a scarlet fever come into existence spontaneously." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.) "Srinivasamurti then addressed the specific cases of cholera and tuberculosis, diseases closely identified with germ theory, the new pubhc health—and with medically justified compulsion in both Europe and European colonies (compulsion which met with strong pubHc resistance and condemnation in both places): [E]ven in the case of diseases like cholera and tuberculosis, which are definitely stated to be due to specific bacteria, the chain of evidence is by no means so strong as it is generally stated to be." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"You have only to think of germ theory, tectonic plate theory, quantum electrodynamics, and string theory to know that even ideas that are accepted widely in our day were dismissed as crackpot ideas by a previous generation of scientists. Michael Faraday, who developed the first modern theory of electricity in the nineteenth century, was trained as a bookbinder and had no formal scientific training, but his theory became the impetus for all the later breakthroughs in understanding electromagnetism." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"My favorite example of scientific denial of the reality of mind-body interactions relates to an article that appeared in Science about nineteenth-century German physician, Robert Koch, who along with Pasteur founded the germ theory. The germ theory holds that bacteria and viruses are the cause of disease. That theory is widely accepted now, but in Koch's day it was more controversial. One of Koch's critics was so convinced that the germ theory was wrong that he brazenly wolfed down a glass of water laced with vibrio cholerae, the bacteria Koch believed caused cholera." - Bruce H. Lipton, The Biology Of Belief: Unleashing The Power Of Consciousness, Matter And Miracles (Get the book.)

"Modern medicine has its roots in germ theory and the discovery of antibiotics. When penicillin was discovered, it was a true breakthrough, because doctors could use a drug to eliminate a true disease. The germ theory does not apply to metabolic disorders This model of using chemicals to eliminate a disease has been carried over into every disease today, even diseases that have no infectious origin." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"Most doctors assume that the germs come from the outside, but this assumption is unproved (and was even disputed by Louis Pasteur himself, who invented the germ theory). As the brilliant scientists Bechamp and Enderlein demonstrated, these germs are created inside the cells in response to the presence of toxic waste material that the body is unable to remove. They may also attach themselves to other weak, undernourished cell tissue (particularly cells that suffer from poor oxygenation). Their purpose is to decompose these damaged, weak cells." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"While Pasteur was making so much progress in France, Robert Koch, a German physician, was putting the finishing touches on the germ theory of disease. In 1882, he reported that the cause of tuberculosis, the tubercle bacillus, could be identified by looking at infected tissue under the microscope. And further, he found that the organisms that cause tuberculosis could be grown in culture, produce disease when injected into laboratory animals, be extracted from these infected animals, and be grown again in culture." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Presently, the germ theory promoted by the medical, pharmaceutical and advertising industries remains a hugely powerful persuasive force worldwide. Even today, the public still demands pills and vaccinations to kill or stave off germs, thus carrying on the hysteria begun more than a century ago. It is, and always has been, a hysteria based upon a complete lie. It makes a lot of people a lot of money as new diseases are identified or made up and blamed on new germ culprits suspected to be responsible for new diseases that are then put on trial and declared guilty!" - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"As in the US, their efforts, beginning with organization (the British Medical Association was founded in 1832, and was intended, like its US counterpart, to fight orthodox corruption and quackery alike), self-regulation and the raising of educational standards, and building on the successes of the emerging 'germ theory' did meet with considerable and growing success." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"The most practiced within the medical model rely upon four schools of thought: (1) the mystery school, (2) the wear and tear school, (3) the genetic/congenital school and (4) the germ theory. Disease as a Mystery The mystery school of disease origin and health care is based upon three assumptions. First, the body is fundamentally flawed. Second, it will break down and contract disease. Third, nobody knows why or what to do about it. In the case of disease as a mystery, how to handle it is shrouded with occult factors." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "This school of thought probably accounts for 30-40% or much less of medical doctor and hospital case files in recent times. The germ theory school is so pervasive in the American and global consciousness that we devote Chapter 5 to exposing the lie on which it is based. The Health by Healthful Living Model Einstein laid the foundation for virtually all natural health care models when he showed the world that everything, including the human body ?at its most fundamental level ?is vibrating energy that follows natural laws." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "Disease as Germ Inspired The germ theory of disease origin and health care proposes that disease-producing microorganisms, either present in the body or by introduction, cause disease. The MDs' proposed cure is to get rid of the germs. They do this almost exclusively with drugs. The most common vehicle is the vaccination during the so-called flu season and contagion episodes. The runner-up most popular drug vehicle to ward off germs is use of antibiotic injections. Shots are mandatory and used routinely for schoolchildren and government workers." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Ewald, proponent of what he has termed the germ theory of medicine, believes a new way of thinking is required. We need to remember that out expectations are biased by minds that tend to visualize threats as invaders coming from beyond our border. Perhaps the experts are looking in the wrong place. Perhaps the most menacing infectious adversaries are already here.10 Ewald reminds us how our bodies are home to millions, if not trillions, of life's tiniest forms, most of which we cohabit with happily and harmoniously." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.) "Pauling's thinking not only seems to lend some credence of the germ theory of medicine because it suggests vitamin C works against cancer-forming disease agents. But it also shows how greater certainty about the benefits of health supplements would serve the public well. It is not only vitamin E or C that causes confusion; these are just two particular windows through which one can observe the general chaos. Medical authority, not feeling it has to prove itself to anyone, has kept a respectable distance from anything that cannot obviously pass the gold standard; it hasn't got involved." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.) "This was the end of what is sometimes known as the germ theory of medicine, when Bradford Hill reported on a series of trials he had designed to find a cure for the last major killer of that era, tuberculosis. In that same year, together with his protege, Sir Richard Doll, he began a study that confirmed smoking as a cause of lung cancer, a feat that was more challenging than it sounds because 90% of the adult male population smoked, making it hard to find suitable control groups of non-smokers. The latter work was to signal a profound change in how illness is perceived." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.)

"A one-centimeter tumor ball (about 4/10ths of an inch around) would contain one billion tumor cells! The germ theory of disease is being ignored when it comes to cancer prevention. It is now known that bacteria (example: H. pylori and stomach cancer) and viruses (example: Human papilloma virus and cervical cancer) induce malignancies. Stealth bacteria like Mycobacterium tuberculosis and paratuberculosis may mimic or actually trigger cancer. But little is done to put up a defense against infection. Garlic/allicin, onion/quercetin, oregano/Carvacrol, and folic acid may be helpful in this regard." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

"I am not saying that the germ theory of medicine is totally without basis but, rather, without perspective. The germ theory of medicine is a nineteenth-century concept, promoted by Louis Pasteur before vitamins, trace elements, and other nutrients had even been discovered. The germ theory is still believed to be the central cause of disease, because around it exists a colossal supportive infrastructure of commercial interests that built multi-billion-dollar industries based upon this theory." - Dr Bernard Jenson and Mark Anderson, Empty Harvest (Get the book.)

"Although Pasteur admitted on his deathbed that his theory was wrong, the whole world had already accepted and begun to perpetuate the myth of the germ theory of disease. Pasteur finally realized that germs cannot cause infection without an underlying reason. He acknowledged that it is rather the cell environment or milieu that determined what types of germs and how many of them attached themselves to the cells of organic matter. This is what a contemporary of Pasteur, Antoine Beauchamp, had discovered and taught long before Pasteur came to the same realization at the end of his life." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"In a paper discussing chemical intolerance in Annals of New York Academy ofSciences, Miller wrote: In the late 1800s, physicians observed that certain illnesses spread from sick, feverish individuals to those contacting them, paving the way for the germ theory of disease. The germ theory served as a crude but elegant formulation that explained dozens of seemingly unrelated illnesses affecting literally every organ system." - Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton, Toxic Overload: A Doctor's Plan for Combating the Illnesses Caused by Chemicals in Our Foods, Our Homes, and Our Medicine Cabinets (Get the book.)

"Cornelius Rhoads, chief at Sloan Kettering Cancer Hospital in New York, sought to discredit the germ theory of cancer. Rhoads was head of chemical warfare during the Korean War and was deeply committed to using toxic chemicals to kill cancer cells. Other investigators validated the link between mycobacteria and cancer. In 1965, Canadian researchers had confirmed the existence of bacterial-like organisms inside tumors. [Canadian Medical Assn Journal 92: 31-33, 1965] The germ was believed to be a variant of tuberculosis, a known mycobacterium." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.) "Lawrence Broxmeyer, a New York physician who carefully outlined the history of the germ theory of cancer. [Medical Hypotheses 63:986-96, 2004]. Dr. Virginia Livingston, working with other investigators, could distinguish cancerous tissue from healthy tissue by the presence of one type of bacterium - mycobacterium. The American Medical Association muzzled the news press when Dr. Livingston created a live exhibit at their annual meeting in 1953. Dr. Broxmeyer even cites what may have been a cancer cure in 1926, known as "Glover's Serum." Dr." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.) "Cancer 88:1916-28, 2000] Kill cancer-causing germs Address the germ theory of cancer by consumption of natural agents that kill bacteria, viruses and fungi. Garlic/allicin by virtue of its ability to kill all known viruses, bacteria, fungi. [Planta Medica 58:417-23, 1992; Mycoses 48:95-100, 2005] Papilloma virus causes cervical cancer. Lymphomas are known to be of viral origin. [Current Opinion Hematology 13:254-259, 2006] Allicin kills Helicobacter pylori, the bacterium involved in gastric cancer. [Biotechnology Progress 20:397-401, 2004] Resveratrol inhibits growth of bacteria [H." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

"When penicillin was discovered, it was a true breakthrough, because doctors could use a drug to eliminate a true disease. The germ theory does not apply to metabolic disorders This model of using chemicals to eliminate a disease has been carried over into every disease today, even diseases that have no infectious origin. Cancer is not caused by an infectious agent, nor is diabetes, heart disease, osteoporosis, clinical depression, irritable-bowel syndrome, Alzheimer's disease, arthritis or anything else that tops the list of medical concerns today." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

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