That germ theory is false

1- If I tell my mother that the paint going in the kitchen looks lovely when I despise it, I'm not breaking the law. She may go on to hang art I dislike; this isn't illegal.Similarly, facts found from science - even if they are stolen - do not mean they are no longer facts. Medical procedures built on those facts aren't illegal. I'd also like to point out that even if they were stolen, the protections over intellectual property run out 70 years after the death of the author. [1] Pasteur died in 1895, and we are past 1965. Whoever originally came up with the concept's ideas are now in the public domain, making medical procedures still legal.2- The legal system does not favor medical professionals. I wish it did, but since for-profit medical malpractice is something my father has been subject to, I have to disagree. Thank goodness for tort reform.3- My opponent presents the Vaccination Liberation website as a source. This is a home page and due to its rather 2005-looking HTML and poor navigation features, I'm not sure where to begin searching for what Pro is referring to. I'd like to ask him to find a more specific source. He also fails to explain how it would be beneficial for those not within Big Pharma to just accept the theory.Important note: Upon attempting to look through some of the "facts," I was redirected to a website asking for a credit card to sign up. This is most likely a phishing attempt, and this usually points to malware within a website. Beware.Pro is correct in saying the overcrowding does not cause disease. He is also correct in saying that it is lack of sanitation. However, overcrowding expedites transmission of disease. It would be significantly easier for a pathogen to cover a lot of ground with its hosts in the same place, and easier still when they don't have sanitary living quarters.Now, modern vaccines are not based upon animal/blood mixing myths, they are based upon knowledge of the adaptive immune system.The immune system is divided into two categories: innate and adaptive. You are born with the innate immunity; these cells literally eat foreign pathogens. The adaptive immunity is actually pretty amazing: if a pathogen causes disease, memory cells called B-memory cells will remember how the pathogen presents itself, and (after a reasonable amount of time to build up), will basically call the immune system army to fight the disease.Vaccines do not entirely prevent disease. You can still get sick from vaccine preventable disease, but certainly not the full blown disease. Since your body has encountered the disease, it knows what weapons to pull to fight it, so to speak. It still needs time to make them.5- Pro alleges all milk causes disease; I'd like a source. And yes, without refrigeration, milk can be contaminated. This is because refrigeration is an antimicrobial measure: reducing the temperature reduces the speed at which they can produce. Pro is proving my point.6- "This is a guesstament figure...far more reliable than a medical system..." My opponent is not using specific facts and is guessing. This is not admissible in a debate.7- The body actually has no way of telling what is produced "naturally" and what is produced "artificially." Chemicals are chemicals, just as H2O is water. Your body wouldn't know if it was from a well or someone combined hydrogen and oxygen and lit it on fire. [2]8- I examined the living naturally source and am frankly unsure of its validity. The paper is neither peer reviewed nor from a medical doctor, however none of the paper indicates that the entirety of the endocrine system is based upon iodine. A large part including the thyroid is, yes, however Pro did not acknowledge my example of the RAAS system. I may also bring up the testosterone feedback loop as another example.9- Your "guesstament" still requires a source.10- The hormones of stress actually raise the population of suppressor T (T cells are part of the adaptive immunity), thus reducing the immune response and making you more susceptible to disease. [3]11- Pro alleges that the human body temperature will raise to 104 F upon eating grain, which in an adult would warrant a trip to the ER. Such a maladaptation does not exist in the body since eating grain is so commonplace. Also, most livestock eat grain, it is not "bird food." [4] Source please.12- There is a microbiome of bacteria in the gut, and each population checks another. Usually as a result of inflammation (viral infection, usually), one of the population is able to grow opportunistically, causing disease.13- People eating similar food that is contaminated certainly get sick at the same time. My mother, sister and I ate at El Fenix and got sick the next day: this is food poisoning. This occurred either because whoever made the food had norovirus, the meat wasn't cooked properly, or combination of both. The pathogens in the food were either not cooked away, or got into the food via another person coughing or not washing their hands properly and touching our food. The allegation that disease cannot be transferred by touch, nose, or mouth is also false. I sat beside a girl in my microbiology class who was coughing up a storm and less than a week later I found myself sick for two weeks. This is not coincidence, this is (aerosol) transmission, as the pathogens traveled via the air sprayed out by her cough and, unfortunately, into my lungs.Now, as a closing note, the diet lacking dairy, grain, and sugar (or, the fad Paleo diet) that Pro purports as the cure-all has not been proven to eliminate disease. It spurns moderate weight loss, yes, and reduction of fasting glucose along with heart disease, but elimination of disease? According to multiple studies, absolutely not.[5]I'd also like to raise a question to Pro: why does the immune system exist if not to fight pathogens?Re: note: Dead fish are reservoirs![1] tinylink.net/VL1CR[2] tinylink.net/vSc0V[3] tinylink.net/SsCg1[4] tinylink.net/ZtY[5] tinylink.net/iOt33