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French scientist (1816–1908)
There is widespread repetition of a claim that Louis Pasteur recanted germ theory on his deathbed, saying variations of “Bernard was right — the microbe is nothing, the terrain is everything.” Multipl...
The historical record identifies several notable figures who opposed or critiqued the bacterial (germ) theory of disease, most prominently and surgeon , while later revisionist voices such as Johan Co...
There is no strong evidence in the provided sources that Louis Pasteur publicly "admitted he was wrong" about germ theory; on the contrary, the historical record in these sources shows Pasteur as a le...
Louis Pasteur did not deny germ theory; he was one of its principal architects and spent decades disproving spontaneous generation and promoting microbes as agents of fermentation, spoilage and diseas...