In 1949, John Enders, along with Thomas Weller and Frederick Robbins, claimed to have isolated the polio virus from sick patients using a cell culture. For this achievement they were awarded a Nobel Prize in 1954. That same year, Enders and his colleague, Thomas Peebles, published a paper claiming to have isolated the measles virus from sick patients.
To give a sense of their approach, Enders and Peebles ‘isolated’ the measles virus using the following steps:
Patients with measles gargled milk and spat it into a container.
Antibiotics (i.e. penicillin and streptomycin) were added to the gargled milk.
The mixture of milk, mucus, and medicine was centrifuged (spun at high speeds) for an hour to separate the solid and liquid components. The liquid component was labelled the ‘supernatant’ and was claimed to contain the virus.
The supernatant liquid was then spread atop Rhesus monkey kidney cells in a culture flask.
Many substances were then added to the monkey kidney cell culture, including bovine amniotic fluid, beef embryo extract, horse serum, more antibiotics, phenol red, and soybean trypsin.
When the monkey kidney cells began to break down and die (ie. a cytopathic effect), it was claimed the virus particles present in the mucus of measles patients were responsible.
Multiple cell cultures were then mixed together and ground up with aluminium. This mixture was then centrifuged, and the supernatant was added to another cell culture. When cytopathic effects occurred in the new cell culture, this was considered successful ‘serial passage’ of the virus.
The newly inoculated cell culture was centrifuged once again, and the supernatant was examined under an electron microscope. Indiscriminate particles present in the supernatant were claimed to be the virus.
A control experiment was also performed by adding the same ingredients toa cell culture, except for the ‘infected’ mucus. This uninoculated control (which did not contain mucus from sick patients) broke down in exactly the same way as the inoculated cell culture (which did contain mucus from sick people).
Enders and Peebles admitted that whatever cytopathic agent was present in the uninoculated culture could not be distinguished with confidence from the ‘virus’ present in the inoculated culture.
To this day, Enders’ cell culture procedure is considered the ‘gold standard” for virus isolation, even though the same cytopathic effects occurred in the control sample, and their EM observation was ambiguous. This experiment is also considered proof that a virus particle was present in the original mucus sample taken from the sick patient, despite Enders never directly observing a virus particle there.
From: Can You Catch A Cold? Untold History and Human Experiments by Daniel Roytas.
Dr Mike Yeadon
If a former Pfizer chief scientific officer can be fooled into unquestioning acceptance of the above complete nonsense, what hope is there for the rest of us?
Here is Dr Yeadon after his realization that the so-called science of virology is nothing more than an “emperor’s clothes” phenomenon—in other words, a fraud built on assuming that your predecessors had verified the validity of all the procedures.
When presented with the statement “virology is fraudulent, viruses don’t exist”, most of us would feel completely unqualified to judge or even comment. All we know is that we get the flu or a cold from time to time, and if a virus doesn’t cause it then what does?
Daniel Roytas’ book provides all the arguments and answers all the questions. His book is impeccably researched, and goes through the entire history of virology in plain, simple language but with all the necessary scientific references. After reading it you will realize that you are absolutely qualified to question what everybody assumes is “settled science”. As Dr Yeadon says, it is not settled at all.
Can You Catch A Cold? is such an important book that I am making it compulsory reading for the forthcoming Infections and Immunity module of my diploma course. I am also taking 15 dollars off the price of the module to help students afford the $27 price of the book.
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