{"id":10714,"date":"2026-09-07T01:34:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T23:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zerospike.org\/?p=10714"},"modified":"2026-09-07T01:36:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T23:36:46","slug":"from-pettenkofer-drinking-cholera-cultures-to-powell-repeatedly-exposing-himself-to-supposedly-deadly-germs-skeptics-of-germ-theory-put-the-claims-to-the-test-on-their-own-bodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zerospike.org\/ja\/from-pettenkofer-drinking-cholera-cultures-to-powell-repeatedly-exposing-himself-to-supposedly-deadly-germs-skeptics-of-germ-theory-put-the-claims-to-the-test-on-their-own-bodies\/","title":{"rendered":"From Pettenkofer drinking cholera cultures to Powell repeatedly exposing himself to supposedly deadly germs, skeptics of germ &#8220;theory&#8221; put the claims to the test on their own bodies."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"720\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1280 \/ 720;\" width=\"1280\" controls src=\"https:\/\/zerospike.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/video_2026-09-07_01-32-42.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The outcome?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The presence of a microbe is not proof of causation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The history of germ &#8220;theory&#8221; includes a long list of self-experiments and human exposure trials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The prediction was simple: expose the person to the germ, produce the disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Again and again, the prediction failed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more, see AntiViral Ep. 8: The Germ Duel \u2014 A Century of Failed Experiments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/viroliegynewsletter.substack.com\/p\/antiviral-ep-8-the-germ-duel-a-century\">https:\/\/viroliegynewsletter.substack.com\/p\/antiviral-ep-8-the-germ-duel-a-century<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The outcome? No disease. The presence of a microbe is not proof of causation. The history of germ &#8220;theory&#8221; includes a long list of self-experiments and human exposure trials. The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/zerospike.org\/ja\/from-pettenkofer-drinking-cholera-cultures-to-powell-repeatedly-exposing-himself-to-supposedly-deadly-germs-skeptics-of-germ-theory-put-the-claims-to-the-test-on-their-own-bodies\/\" class=\"more-link\">\u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From Pettenkofer drinking cholera cultures to Powell repeatedly exposing himself to supposedly deadly germs, skeptics of germ &#8220;theory&#8221; put the claims to the test on their own bodies.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zerospike.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zerospike.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zerospike.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zerospike.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zerospike.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zerospike.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10717,"href":"https:\/\/zerospike.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10714\/revisions\/10717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zerospike.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zerospike.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zerospike.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}