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Thoughts on the Existence of Viruses and Evaluating Controversial Scientific Discussions

I love this article. I have several virus deniers on my substack. While I do not agree with them, they are my valued readers with interesting thoughts on various matters. I do challenge them gently from time to time.

While I do think that virus denial is a mistaken belief, I am pretty certain that I unknowingly hold some other mistaken beliefs, so I just let them say whatever they want and I sometimes make comments to express why I do not agree with them.

Overall, the belief in virus denial is n…

Hi Igor. I too appreciate this article, while I might have decided for myself that Viruses do not exist, at least in a contagious manner, I am still open to this debate as I'm just a bloke that hits a keyboard for a living. I appreciate that your engagements with your readers that might not go along with the full germ theory are respectful. I too agree that, right now, the fighting mandates is the more important fight. But I also think that until contagion can be unequivocally proven and that A…

Yeah, we are people and we can agree to disagree. I was infected by a covid infected person, had covid, lost smell for a month, and had other covid symptoms such as diarrhea and lowered blood oxygen. It was not a cold and it was contagious.

Do you believe in viruses? I love you

You don't believe in viruses? I love you too

Igor - but you understand that Tom Cowan, for example, isn't saying that getting sick from contact with another sick person isn't a thing. He agrees it happens. I myself caught COVID at my first large gathering along with around 10-15% of those there, in 2020. I know *something* is contagious.

He says the disease is a process in the body to deal with a toxin/shock and that the fact this process is going on is transmitted to other people, who are warned - like everyone agrees that trees warn each…

The whole problem is this "by some unknown process." He is proposing an alternative model to explain what is occurring, but can't actually state what the model is. If you hold that logical standard, I could likewise argue every single thing that happens to you was a result of God's will, so there is no point in you trying to have any agency or autonomy because I believe each event being God's will is also a viable explanation...even though in virtually all cases I can't prove it beyond stating…

I don't get it. Just prove contagion and replication with a pure virus isolate. Isolated from anything else. Just prove it. It fine if you cant prove it, but then just admit that you can't

I can't "prove it" because an impossible and arbitrary standard has been put forward over what constitutes that standard. If you read the articles linked to by Kirsch by other authors you will see that: 1) Contagion and replication with a pure virus isolate has been repeatedly demonstrated. 2) The way " prove contagion and replication with a pure virus isolate" is being defined is completely different from what anyone else in the field utilizes. 3) The way " prove contagion and replication with a pure virus isolate" has been defined it is impossible to ever meet that standard.

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