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French physiologist (1813-1878)
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 short answer: there is no reliable primary-source evidence that Louis Pasteur renounced germ theory on his deathbed; the famous quote "Bernard was right — the germ is nothing, the terrain is every...
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...
Carbon monoxide has been used historically as an execution and mass-killing agent in multiple jurisdictions — from ancient reports of Greek and Roman practice to 20th‑century gas chambers and mobile "...
Alternative theories of disease—commonly summarized as —argue that the body's internal environment, not just external pathogens, determines disease; several peer-reviewed discussions and hypothesis pa...