Geordie Ross wrote:I don't consider viruses to be living organisms.Fine, you can join in the debate. I guess everyone has their own opinion which is not uncommon when one begins discussing the nature of life.
There's many bacteria that are incredibly deadly, of course, they're virility depends on the hosts immune system, and small concentrations of certain bacteria will kill even the healthiest and fittest humans on earth. Regardless of corporate pharmaceutical companies.I doubt there is something so deadly. Even the "deadly" Saar virus end up killing a few hundred people (mostly nurses who probably shot themselves full of drugs). During that year of the deadly Saar epidemic there was a greater chance of being killed by a kick from a donkey. But I guarantee you pharmaceuticals made more money by scaring everyone over Saar than they did off donkey protection equipment.
Anyway, an excerpt from the above url concerning Pasteur's recant:
A Brief Criticism of Pasteur candida-international.blogspot.com/2009/10/virology-is-religion.html In a 250-page thesis on Antoine Béchamp, Marie Nonclercq, doctor of pharmacy, explains the clear advantage that Pasteur had over Béchamp: "He was a falsifier of experiments and their results, where he wanted the outcomes to be favourable to his initial ideas. The falsifications committed by Pasteur now seem incredible to us. On deeper examination, however, the facts were in opposition to the ideas developed by Pasteur in the domain of bacteriology . . . Pasteur wilfully ignored the work of Béchamp, one of the greatest 19th-century French scientists whose considerable work in the fields of chemical synthesis, bio-chemistry and infectious pathology is almost totally unrecognised today, because it had been systematically falsified, denigrated, for the personal profit of an illustrious personage (Pasteur) who had, contrary to Béchamp, a genius for publicity and what today we call 'public relations . . .'"