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*(Cue overly dramatic parchment unrolling. A man in a lab coat clears his throat while a lute plays.)*

Good evening.

Tonight, we return to a simpler time.

A better time.

A time when science was pure, **pants were itchy, nobody washed their hands and everyone was very confident about things they were wrong about,** and **Robert Koch had already figured disease out,** so everyone else should have just packed it in and gone home.

According to a very serious internet antiquarian, **nothing discovered after 1890 counts,** unless it follows Koch’s Postulates *exactly as written.*

No updates.

No revisions.

No allowance for the last 130 years of awkward discoveries. 🙃

Also, small detail: Koch himself abandoned them.

But let’s not get bogged down. (That would be inconvenient.)

For anyone who hasn’t memorized Victorian checklists lately, Koch’s Postulates say a pathogen must:

• Be found in *every* case of disease

• Be absent from healthy people

• Be grown in pure culture

• Cause disease again when reintroduced

This worked great for a narrow slice of bacteria, briefly, until reality showed up and ruined the whole thing.

They fail for:

• asymptomatic carriers,

• latent infections,

• immune-mediated disease,

• polymicrobial conditions,

• dose effects,

• host genetics,

• prions,

• viruses,

• and, honestly, most of medicine.

In science, this is called *learning.*

Online, it’s called *“kind of suspicious, if you ask me.” * 🤔

When someone gently points out that **viruses can’t be grown in “pure culture”** because they are obligate intracellular parasites — meaning they’re not tiny independent creatures with studio apartments — the response is immediate:

“Then they’re not isolated.”

Ah. Got it.

If it doesn’t behave like a bacterium, it doesn’t exist.

Very normal stance. 🥴

At this point, **“isolation”** gets redefined to mean:

• no host cells,

• no environment,

• no replication machinery,

• no context,

• ideally visible without equipment,

• preferably sitting alone on a table, waiting to be judged.

Applied consistently, this also means we must conclude that:

• thoughts,

• metabolism,

• fire,

• software,

• gravity,

• and the post you’re currently annoyed by

are all fake. 🤡

Entire viral genomes — sequenced, assembled, replicated, mutated, compared, modeled, and repeatedly validated — are waved away because they don’t satisfy a **19th-century purity ritual involving agar and confidence.**

“But that’s moving the goalposts,” comes the reply. 😒

Which is interesting, since those goalposts were planted before:

• electron microscopy,

• molecular genetics,

• immunology,

• cell culture,

• or knowing what DNA was.

But yes.

Updating standards when new evidence shows up?

Huge red flag. 🚩

So, in closing, we are encouraged to reject modern biology and cling tightly to the belief that **nature must obey an antique checklist,** or else be declared imaginary.

Because if your model of disease collapses the second new information appears…

That’s not a problem with the model.

That’s proof the information is fake.

Obviously.

Good night.

*(comments section noises intensify)*

Paul Frohlich's avatar

I follow this HPW for at least 15 years, the damage it do to so many kids is beyond words, will not go in to this, all I say for every child damaged or killed those who push for it deserve to be hung when prooven they knew. Such creatures should not walk the Earth. No justice for the innocent. They do not care, profits over everything

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