- Posted by Paul Ericson on October 27, 2009
Antoine Bechamp
In 1932 a booked titled “Bechamp
or Pasteur?” was published under the name E. Douglas Hume. Hume was
actually a woman who had to ghostwrite under a male name to get her
book published. Hume wrote about Antoine Bechamp, a contemporary of
Pasteur. Bechamp was department chair at the University at Lille,
France and the most respected professor and researcher at the time.
Bechamp was a talented and committed researcher who cared more for
what was going on in the lab than awards, politics or personal
appearances. He worked nearly everyday of his life until his death at
age 93. Bechamp reasoned that it was not the pathogens that caused
disease, but rather the condition in which pathogens lived. Disease
happens when an imbalance causes some of pathologen (bacteria,
viruses, yeast) to take over. What causes the imbalance? Poor nutrition,
overloaded or weak immune system, stress. This seems like such a
simple idea, but it is the fundamental question of the whole
controversyto this day. Even Pasteur, agreed that pathogens do not cause disease alone. Dr. Price was convinced that the change from traditional diets high in vitamin A and D to "foods of commerce" was a significant factor in the rise of TB rates.
I encourage you to do a little research on Pasteur, you will
discover the following:
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Pasteur had background no in medicine
or physiology; he was trained as a chemist
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Pasteur likely created the disease
known as "hydrophobia," rather than found a cure for it.
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Pasteur started the horrific
practise of vivisection. Still in use today, it is responsible for much needless suffering of animals.
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Pasteur was directly responsible
for the deaths of hundreds of people inoculated with his unproven
vaccines, and indirectly for thousands more when disease was
introduced by other unproven procedures developed by Pasteur.
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Pasteur was more a merchant than a
scientist, with his frequent reporting of false test findings and
fraudulent data, which always had two purposes: self-promotion and
profiteering from the sale of drugs and vaccines that were often
made mandatory by legislators.
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Pasteur's methods of treatment
actually killed Alexander, the King of Greece, for a disease he did
not even have.
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Pasteur frequently avoided working on naturally diseased
subjects, instead he introduced the idea of inducing sickness by
giving disease injections into healthy subjects.
As for his Germ Theory, there was a great deal of opposition to it
among many researchers of the time.
In a lecture given in London
1911, M.L. Leverson, MD stated:
"The entire fabric of the germ theory of disease rests upon
assumptions which not only have not been proved, but which are
incapable of proof, and many of them can be proved to be the reverse
of truth. The basic one of these unproven assumptions, wholly due to
Pasteur, is the hypothesis that all the so-called infectious and
contagious disorders are caused by germs."
Rudolf Virchow,the discoverer of the cell theory, with respect to
the Germ Theory, commented:
"Germs seek their natural habitat - diseased tissue - rather
than being the cause of diseased tissue."
Virchow thought that the presence of germs identified a tissue as
diseased, and was not the cause of disease. A weakened or diseased
tissue was a target for pathogens, providing a hospitable environment
in which they can thrive. Quite different from germs having caused
the weakened tissue in the first place.
Bechamp graphically showed the same idea when an amputated arm was
brought into his lab. The patient's elbow had developed gangrene
within eight hours after a sever blow, amputation was the only option
to save the patient. Bechamp began to examine the severed limb using
his microscope. To his amazement he found no bacteria in the
gangrenous tissue. After a few hours bacteria began to appear, where
initially there were none. Bechamp's associate, Professor Estor, remarked "Bacteria cannot be the cause of gangrene;
they are the effects of it."
Robert Koch
Robert Koch was
racing against Pasteur to find the cause of anthrax, which was
killing great numbers of cattle in Europe at the time. He took blood
from the diseased cattle and isolated bacteria from it and injected
mice with the bacteria. Of the mice that died, Koch cultured their
blood and compared it to the original bacteria from the cattle. His
postulates are still memorized by medical students the world over as
the foundation of the Germ Theory:
1. The organism must be present in every case
2. Must be
isolated
3. Must cause the disease in a healthy host
4. Must be
isolated again
Each postulate has been proven false, both at the time and even
today, but his postulates are still basic tenets of the Germ Theory
“religion”. Both anthrax vaccines that Koch and Pasteur developed
were near total failures, thousands of sheep all over Europe were
killed as part of the "experiment". Both Koch and Pasteur
did everything possible to alter and cover up the results of these
failures.
Strike two
Koch developed the first vaccine for tuberculosis, using his
postulates. The vaccine was called "tuberculin". In Berlin, 2000
patients were inoculated with tuberculin. They died at a higher rate
than TB patients who hadn't been treated at all. Tuberculin simply
did not work.
Even more upsetting to Koch was the revelation that the Prussian
government had made an exclusive agreement with Koch to sell tuberculin and share the profits. This was a political disaster for the
Prussian government and a huge blow to Koch's reputation. It was also
an embarrassment for the cause of scientific medicine when the
prestige of the scientific method suddenly suffered this failure. Koch
never recovered his credibility and today is only remembered for his
"Postulates." However Koch helped arrange the marriage of
science and marketing, for which divorce does not appear likely any
time soon, especially at present.