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2023-09-16 12:53:23 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: B82758B0A8BADC8B39EBF43D1DB0A4D370E4BE46B413B10DD3B7EAA21842EBB2
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Although the claim that Pasteur abandoned germ theory in favour of Bechamp's Terrain Theory in his death bed is widely repeated across the internet there is no evidence that this happened from contemporary sources, from biographies or from witnesses. https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/germ-theory-denial/ https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/germ-theory-denialism-a-major-strain-in-alt-med-thought/ https://bigpictureeducation.com/history-germ-theory
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