Viruses were proven to exist in 1999
Post #1079
Viruses are acellular combinations of protein and genetic material.
Many people now believe that viruses do not exist, but even though the official response to the purported existence of viruses is often corrupt, it doesn’t do a service to the Medical Freedom Movement to deny the existence of viruses. Here, researchers in 1999 added back RNA to the protein produced by cells infected with Tobacco Mosaic Virus (TMV):
The result was a mixture that had the ability to infect plants. And the kicker is that you can create a Franken-virus by combining TMV protein with the RNA from a different, Holmes ribgrass (HR) viral strain, which then produces an infection that resembles HR (the RNA determines the type of infection):
The virus was then isolated from the infected plants and, sure enough, it was HR, meeting Koch’s 4th and final postulate:
You must be able to re-isolate the infectious pathogen from an experimentally- (or secondarily-) infected individual.
Reference
Fraenkel-Conrat H, Singer B. Virus reconstitution and the proof of the existence of genomic RNA. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 1999 Mar 29;354(1383):583-6. doi: 10.1098/rstb.1999.0409. PMID: 10212937; PMCID: PMC1692543. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/instance/1692543/pdf/10212937.pdf
Wow... you didnt read or critique the methodology at all, did you?
Fraenkel-Conrat shoots himself in the foot on p.584 when he notes that B. Singer fully isolated the "mosaic virus" RNA, applied it to tobacco leaves and got the resulting lesions as evidence of "disease/infection." He states explicitly:
"Gradually, B.S. [Singer] was forced to conclude that the RNA was infectious per se, and produced exactly the same disease as intact TMV [tobacco mosaic virus]. Gierer & Schramm (1956) came to the same conclusion at about that time."
So what evidence is there that the "virus" alone causes the disease when you can get the same effect with chemically precipitated "viral RNA", no virus particles present at all?
Its methodologically flawed, like the whole science of virology itself.
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