‘Do you believe that germs cause disease?’ — the questions health leaders want senators to ask RFK Jr.

Do you believe that germs cause disease?’ — the questions health leaders want senators to ask RFK Jr. - Kennedy, President ...
Science-Based MedicineOpinion

To Deny The Role of Social Media In Propagating Misinformation is a Form of Germ Theory Denial, Not For Pathogens, But For Ideas

MAHA disinformation agents clearly understand the power of social media, and anyone who genuinely wishes to oppose them ...
Psychology Today

The New Denial of Germ Theory Threatens Public Health

In recent months, the U.S. government has taken steps to defund and dismantle key infectious disease programs, including a National Institutes of Health lab that has contributed to groundbreaking work ...
The Washington Post

Revisiting a 19th century medical idea could help address covid-19

When germ theory displaced the idea of “miasmas” we lost important knowledge about tackling airborne disease. Face masks. Ventilation. Air purifiers. Social distancing. Breathing has been in the news ...
Fast Company

Like early germ theory, can climate change be addressed without people believing it?

Strange as it may seem, early germ theorists could tell us a lot about today’s attitudes toward climate change. While researching for a new book about the history of emerging infections, I found many ...
Nature

The Germ Theory Applied to the Explanation of the Phenomena of Disease “The Specific Fevers”

IN his preface the author states that “one object which he has in view is to rescue the germ theory of disease from a false and misleading position, and to give to it its true and legitimate standing ...
The Economist

What if germ theory had caught on sooner?

Editor’s note: This year What If?, our annual collection of scenarios, considers the future of health. Each of these stories is fiction, but grounded in historical fact, current speculation and real ...
Nature

The Germ Theory of Disease

IN NATURE, October 5, p. 450, Prof. Bastian, versus the Germ Theory, says:—“Such germs when present would be sure to go on increasing until they brought about the death of their host.” Now, is it not ...