Does Sars-Cov-2 exist?
I ask this question because a number of people have claimed the entire Covid pandemic was a made-up event. A ‘plandemic’ If you like. There was no new virus, it never existed. Others question whether or not viruses actually exist, as ‘they have never been seen.’ I get these comments quite a lot on my blog. I also see people on X, and elsewhere, making similar claims. Conspiracy theory?
I am also often accused of being a conspiracy theorist. That lazy, lazy, form of attack, which never requires any evidence. Nor any attempt to define what a conspiracy theorist may actually be. It is just a ‘catch all’ insult and dismissal. Which continues to be enormously effective. Strangely.
However, when we get into the ‘viruses don’t exist,’ or ‘Sars-Cov-2 doesn’t exist’ territory, I too find myself tempted to dismiss such comments as a conspiracy theory. I try to resist. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. But …
Here I want to try to explain why it is that I am pretty much one hundred per cent certain that viruses exist and that Sars-Cov-2 was a new strain/variant of coronavirus not seen been before.
Do viruses exist?
Some may think this is a stupid question to ask. ‘Of course they exist …you idiot. Don’t you know anything.’ However, it is always worthwhile taking the time to challenge things you believe to know, to be sure. If not all the time, then at least from time to time. A stress test, if you like.
After all, most people are convinced that a raised cholesterol level causes heart disease, and there appears to be a vast mountain of data to support this hypothesis. Only an idiot, or conspiracy theorist, could think otherwise.
Well, ahem, disclosure of interest …. I have spent forty years studying this area, and I am absolutely certain that cholesterol (or LDL – Low Density Lipoprotein) does not cause heart disease. If the mainstream medical research world can get it wrong about something this fundamental, then perhaps they can be wrong about other seemingly inarguable facts?
One of my somewhat geeky hobbies is studying medical ideas from history, which turned out to be complete bunkum. There are many. They include the knowledge that blood does not circulate round the body, that Miasma causes infectious diseases, and the absolute requirement for strict bed rest following a heart attack. To name the first three that spring to mind.
One thing I learned very early on was that the person who first dared challenge the prevailing dogma would be ruthlessly attacked, their reputation stomped into non- existence. Or, in the case of … ‘could doctors please wash their hands to stop spreading horrible diseases’ Semmelweis … beaten to death in a secure mental hospital.
Luckily, someone would finally come along to change things around. Who then succeeded in garnering all the praise. But how did they succeed when others ended as smoking ruins? I have never really managed to work this out.
I certainly wish I knew. Perhaps it was simply a combination of time and persistence. Maybe those who succeeded had terrific communication skills. Maybe the pile of contradictory facts simply grew too enormous to be ignored?
Alternatively, it could be that those established ‘experts’ who had most to lose grew old and gave up the fight to maintain the status quo – then died. As Max Plank once remarked. ‘Science progresses one funeral at a time.’
Back to viruses – and their existence
Here follows information that I can find no reason to doubt.
The first virus ever to be identified was the tobacco mosaic virus. To be more precise, an ‘agent’ was identified. Something far smaller than a bacterium. It was initially called ‘Contagium vivum fluidum.’ Which sounds like something from Harry Potter. A rough translation could be: ‘a contagious living thing that can move about – and infect, and harm, living things.’
Early researchers could not see it, whatever it was. But they knew it had to exist because of the carnage it left behind on their highly valuable tobacco plants. They had previously worked out how to fix bacteria in a gel, which gained bacteria the name ‘contagium fixum.’ And bacteria could be seen under an optical microscope. At least from the late nineteenth century onwards.
However, this agent could not be fixed, nor seen. So, it had to be something else, very, very small – perhaps not even a solid. Which is why we ended up with the term fluidum.
Beijerinck, in 1898, was the first to coin the term, ‘virus’. Virus is Latin for poison or noxious liquid. Which is not a terribly accurate name for a tiny wee solid thing.
‘Investigating the cause of mosaic disease of tobacco, previously shown to be an invisible and filterable entity, Beijerinck concluded that it was neither particulate like the bacteria implicated in certain infectious diseases, nor soluble like the toxins and enzymes responsible for symptoms in others. He offered a completely new explanation, proposing that the agent was a “living infectious fluid” whose reproduction was intimately linked to that of its host cell.’ 1
That last bit about reproduction was certainly a good guess. As for the living infectious fluid bit … not so much.
However, it was not until the 1930s that anyone started to pay much attention to ‘viruses.’ No-one knew much about them, even if they truly existed. Virology wasn’t a research area until the second half of the twentieth century,
The first time a virus was ever spotted was in 1939. This was almost immediately after the first electron microscope was created, by Siemens, in 1939. You could say that that the moment it became technically possible to see a virus, they were seen. And lo, vaccination was born. Sorry… couldn’t resist.
Thus, when people state that viruses have never been seen, I tend to sigh gently to myself. This is simply not true. You can see hundreds of different types. Thousands, even millions.
A CORONAVIRUS
For the last eighty-five years, we have been seeing them in ever greater detail. You can also grow a virus in the lab. You can define their exact RNA, or DNA, sequence. You can construct a new virus from lab created RNA – if you so wish.
In addition, you can add bits to existing viruses to make them more, or less, infectious to humans. This is known as gain of function research. In many ways there is little that we don’t know about them.
We know what they look like, how they replicate within host cells, what their gene sequence is, how they attach to cells in order to gain entry. Yet, and yet, their ineluctable essence remains difficult to grasp.
In what direction, exactly, will they mutate? Why do they sometimes spring back to life? I am thinking of my cold sores here. Will they jump across from animal hosts to kill us all? And why don’t we have any decent drugs to stop them being so damned deadly? I am thinking more Ebola here.
It is simply because they are so tiny, that is hard to get a handle on them. They float around us, unknown and in important ways unknowable. I remember reading an article where someone tried to work out, at the peak of the Covid pandemic, how large a container you would need to hold all the Sars-Cov-2 viruses in the world.
The answer was, a can of Coke, as reported by the BBC.
‘If you collected up every Sars-CoV-2 virus particle in the world, it would fit inside a soft drinks can.’ 2
Which I find pretty mind-boggling. It also gives you some idea of how small they are. And how little, in terms of volume, is required to infect and potentially kill someone. But what of Sars-Cov-2 itself. Is it real, was it real, was it a new virus that had never been seen before? I believe the answers here to be yes, yes, and yes.
The evidence that supports Sars-Cov-2 as a ‘new’ virus
You can argue about when a new strain of an existing virus becomes a distinct ‘new’ virus. Or even what to call each variant. Naming things has never been a precise science:
‘The issue of naming the coronavirus had arisen about twenty years back and the need for a standard nomenclature system was asserted after the emergence of SARS in 2002–2003 . However, the issue resurfaced in early 2020 when a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), deadlier than the previous, brought the world to a halt. Over the years, no solid standard naming system has been developed and implemented.’ 3
But, for now, I will say Sars-Cov-2 represents a distinct ‘new’ virus and leave it at that. Clearly coronaviruses themselves are not remotely new. They have been around, and known about, for a long time. They are called a ‘corona-virus’ because of the crown, or halo, of protruding spikes (the spike protein). There are four main subgroups. Alpha, beta, gamma and delta – although this will doubtless change. I think it may have already happened.
They can infect other animals. Cats, for example, die from coronavirus infections. In humans they have been causing the common cold for many years.
Coronaviruses are an RNA virus, which means they only contain a single strand of genetic material. Some viruses have DNA – two strands. DNA viruses mutate relatively slowly. However, RNA viruses tend to mutate rapidly, and veer all over the place. Which means that:
- Vaccines are likely to become ineffective pretty rapidly (see under influenza)
- They can more easily avoid host immune defences, so you can become infected again and again.
Be afraid of the mutations. One form of coronavirus that mutated was MERS-CoV. [Middle-East Respiratory Syndrome – Coronavirus]. It had a reported infection fatality rate of thirty-five per-cent. It came, it is believed, from camels. MERS scared the bejesus out of the virologists. Luckily it did not prove highly infectious between humans. So, it faded away. Although it has not gone.
We also had SARS-Cov-1 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome – Coronavirus, mark 1). Which kicked off in 2002, in China – quelle surprise. It spread to nearly thirty countries but caused only nine hundred reported fatalities. Why did it not kill more, and spread more widely? The widely believed answer is that it was only infectious – could only be passed on – when people had symptoms. So, if you isolated people who had symptoms, no-one else got infected. End of viral spread.
Then we had Sars-Cov-2, or Covid19, or just Covid. Call it what you like. It was new. Why do I believe this?
One of the main reasons is because I had very direct experience of the effects it had. I was working on the front line during Covid, helping to manage the elderly in rehabilitation units and nursing homes. I went in, every single working day. I saw over thirty people die of this ‘new’ virus. Possibly more. I kind of lost count.
Their deaths were often strange. I have seen a lot of people die over my decades working as a doctor. Some sudden, mostly slow. But with Covid people died ‘differently’. The most unusual thing was when their oxygen saturation levels – the amount of oxygen contained in red blood cells – started to fall, dramatically. Despite this, they often had no symptoms.
Maximum oxygen saturation is 100%. People with a level of 80% are in trouble and need to get into hospital a.s.a.p. They will be struggling badly and usually need oxygen. With Covid, I was sticking on a probe and getting levels of 70%. Which would normally mean – almost dead, or just about to die. Instead, there was nothing to see. Breathing rate normal, fully conscious and alert. Smiling and chatting even.
Then, less than ten minutes later, in two cases. Dead. Bang, gone. What the …?
This observation, of very low saturation levels in otherwise well people, was described all over the place. According to what I had been taught, it should not have been possible. But clearly it was, because it happened.
Here from the University of Boston. ‘Three Reasons Why COVID-19 Can Cause Silent Hypoxia.’
“We didn’t know [how this] was physiologically possible,” says Bela Suki, a BU College of Engineering professor of biomedical engineering and of materials science and engineering and one of the authors of the study. Some coronavirus patients have experienced what some experts have described as levels of blood oxygen that are “incompatible with life.” 4
Then there was the sudden loss of smell. Our next-door neighbours have five boys. One of whom was working in Macao at the start of it all. He came back in March 2020. The boys all then reported sudden loss of smell. One of them farted and the others could smell nothing. They were otherwise well.
Pretty much the same thing happened with my son. It started when my wife cooked him some scrambled eggs and they tasted of almost nothing. About which he complained bitterly. Then, everything tasted of nothing. Apart from things the tongue can sense. Salt, sweet, bitter, sour and umami. Then my daughter, who did have symptoms of Covid, lost her sense of smell completely. She was working as a junior doctor on a Covid ward in Wales.
This occurred very early on, before anyone had even mentioned loss of smell, or very low oxygen saturation accompanied by a complete lack of symptoms. This was not a case of me seeing things I had been told I would see. These were signs and symptoms that I had neither come across, nor read about.
I knew very early on that a loss of taste/smell was diagnostic of Covid. It was ‘pathognomonic’, to use the medical term. Although it took about nine months for this symptom to be accepted by the mainstream. Having said this, it never happened to me, despite the fact that I was surrounded by Covid every working day, for months. And I lit up Lateral Flow Tests from time to time.
Anyway. To see one set of symptoms you have never seen before could be considered coincidence. To see two. that’s new. Then there were the blood clots, and the cytokine storms. Yes, the latter two can be seen with other viral infections. But not to the same extent. To my mind, these were also new, at least in their intensity.
You would have to work pretty damned hard to convince me that Covid was not a new disease, caused by a new virus Sars-Cov2. Things that you have never seen before, seen with your own eyes, tend to be the most convincing.
More science
More scientific support for the fact that Sars-Cov2 comes from the way it caused damage, and the specific type of cells that it damaged. Which fits with the known structure of the virus itself.
One fascinating thing about viruses is how they manage to gain entry to a cell. In almost all cases they attach to a protein, or proteins, on the cell membrane. This allows them to be absorbed/invaginated into the cell. This represents a ‘lock and key’ mechanism.
HIV, for example, locks onto a receptor called the ‘C-C chemokine receptor type 5 (CCR5’). Then, and only then, is it granted entry from the outside world into the cytoplasm – the inside world of a cell.
There are some people, not many, who have a mutation of the CCR5 protein called the Delta-32 mutation which prevents CCR5 from being expressed on the outside of the cell membrane. So, HIV cannot attach, therefore you cannot get AIDS.5
The Ebola virus also attaches to CCR5 protein. If you have the Delta-32 mutation, you can’t get HIV or Ebola. Or to be slightly less black and white, you are almost entirely resistant to them. There is now much work being done in the area.
‘The triad “CCR5, extracellular vesicles and infections” is an emerging topic.’ 5
It is why viruses that affect animals e.g. bird flu, usually cannot infect us. We have different proteins on our cells. There is no lock, and therefore entry is barred. However, if the virus mutates just a little bit, then you can end up with a key that fits a human lock and then … watch out. Species jump is what keeps virologists awake at night. Ebola is a species jumper. Luckily, it does not spread very easily.
When it comes to Sars-Cov-2, the virus gains entry to human cells by attaching to a protein known as the ACE2 receptor. A common protein/receptor found on many cells. Once the virus latches on, this triggers downstream processes that ‘open up’ the cell to viral entry. The specific ‘key’ in this case is the S1 protein that sits on the spike protein.
As a quick jump sideways, the lock and key system is precisely how LDL molecules gain entry into cells. They attach to a protein receptor ‘lock’ known as the LDL receptor. The key here is the ApoB-100 protein ‘key’, which is attached to all LDL molecules. After locking onto the protein receptor, the LDL molecule is accepted into the cell. LDL molecules and viruses are just about the same size. [Getting into a cell would be impossible for either of them, without a magic key].
Anyway, back on track. Certain cells in the body have far more ACE2 receptors than others. They are most abundant in ‘epithelial’ cells lining the lungs, blood vessels and the small intestine.
‘ACE2 was shown to be abundantly present in human epithelial cells of the lung and enterocytes of the small intestine as well as in endothelial cells of the arterial and venous vessels.’6
Knowing the type of cell that Sars-Cov2 is designed to lock onto you would expect to see the following triad. Lung damage, diarrhoea (caused by damage to cells lining the intestine) and vascular damage – creating blood clots, causing heart attacks and strokes and suchlike. Which is exactly what we did see.
Once you knew that the new spike protein fitted perfectly onto ACE2 receptors, it became possible to predict what would happen. Including, almost certainly, the loss of sense of smell, caused by damage to the ‘epithelial’ lining of the nose.
At this point I am not sure what else I can say. I think the evidence is overwhelming that viruses exist. Equally I find it virtually inarguable that Sars-Cov2 is/was a new coronavirus not seen before. We can see it, we can grow it, we can test for it, and it causes damage predicted by the type of cells it gains entry to – and therefore kills.
Was it made in a biolab in Wuhan, or did it start off in a wet market in Wuhan – having evolved from a bat virus – then travelling a thousand miles across China … without any sign of it on the way? Dum de dum, taps fingers on desk.
I shall let you decide on that one. Bear in mind that the biolab leak explanation would place greater blame on China, and the Chinese authorities are the only ones who have the evidence to support, or fully refute, this theory … So, I wouldn’t hold my breath on that on. But in many ways, it doesn’t’ really matter where it came from. It was a virus, it was new, it arrived. It did its thing.
Although, having just said that, the main purpose of an enquiry should be to try and learn how to stop bad things happening again. If the virus was made in a lab, and then escaped, we need to ensure that man-made viruses like this never escape again. Or are never made again?
Alternatively, if the virus evolved on a long and winding road across China, on its way to a wet market, well, we probably need to ask China, and other countries with wet markets to close them down. Or do something else. Not quite sure what the something else would be. Autoclave all bats? Death to all pangolins?
Summary
I never like to say that something is true, or false, or a fact, as this makes it very difficult to examine that thing again with an open mind. I prefer to define ideas as probable, possible and unlikely. However, I will say that it is just about 100% certain that:
- Viruses exist.
- Sars-Cov2 was/is a ‘new’ version of a coronavirus.
Next, the reasons why I believe that many people were convinced that Covid was a plandemic. And remain convinced of it, to this day.
1: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30003445/
3: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8577721/
5: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168170220302938
Dr. Malcolm Kendrick 
Very disappointing
Which parts of what I wrote do you disagree with, and why?
Dr. Kendrick- This is a well written and thoughtful essay but it does not prove that viruses exist.
When we go back to the methods section, we find that viruses were, from the beginning, determined to have been found by an unscientific method that would get a failing grade in a middle school science class. The same method of virus isolation is used today.
The argument against the existence of viruses is the simple fact that the method virologists use to isolate viruses does not comply with the scientific method or with the dictionary definition of the word, isolation. To isolate something means to set it apart, not to add toxic substances to a cell culture which is what virologists do. After adding toxic substances to a cell culture and looking under an electron microscope there are dead and dying cells which virologists claim are viruses and which look identical to dying cancer cells and other cellular debris.
Virus deniers don’t claim that illnesses don’t exist and weird symptoms don’t exist. What they say is that you don’t have to give an alternative explanation to show that there is no proof that a virus caused the illness. Any number of things could make people sick. This applies as well to covid with such diverse symptoms.
You started out with the Tobacco Mosaic Virus. Please watch Sam Bailey’s video that refutes the claim that the plants died from a virus.
https://drsambailey.com/resources/videos/viruses-unplugged/tobacco-mosaic-virus-the-beginning-and-end-of-virology/
Thank you Dr. Kendrick. I think we are all just searching for the truth.
The most common type of virus is a phage, aka bacteriophage because it attacks bacteria exclusively. It looks nothing like a cell fragment or in fact anything else in nature, being a rod with a claw at one end and a geometrical blob at the other. Maybe it’s a teeny tiny alien or a triffid, but it can’t be mistaken for anything else.
Let us hope that what they learn from gain of function research for weapons also enables them to develop phages that attack the bacteria that infect humans, because one day our antibiotics won’t work any more and we might have to rely on phages.
The USSR was doing work in the area almost a hundred years ago
Felix D’Herelle coined the term bacteriophage in 1917 to characterize a hypothetical viral agent responsible for the mysterious phenomenon of rapid bacterial death. While the viral nature of the “phage” was only widely accepted in the 1940s, attempts to use the phenomenon in treating infections started early. After raising hopes in the interwar years, by 1945 phage therapy had been abandoned almost entirely in the West, until the recent revival of interest in response to the crisis of antibiotic resistance. The use of phage therapy, however, persisted within Soviet medicine, especially in Georgia. This article explains the adoption and survival of phage therapy in the USSR. By focusing on the Tbilisi Institute of Microbiology, Epidemiology and Bacteriophage (now the Eliava Institute), I argue that bacteriophage research appealed to Soviet scientists because it offered an ecological model for understanding bacterial infection. In the 1930s, phage therapy grew firmly imbedded within the infrastructure of Soviet microbiological institutes. During the Second World War, bacteriophage preparations gained practical recognition from physicians and military authorities. At the dawn of the Cold War, the growing scientific isolation of Soviet science protected phage therapy from the contemporary western critiques, and the ecological program of research into bacteriophages continued in Georgia
Dr Kendrick, I think phage therapy is still being pursued in post-Soviet Russia, though I don’t know to what extent. I did have a book on the subject years ago. So Soviet science wasn’t all bad was it?
Whist it is true that ‘bacteriophages’ have been isolated/purified and sequenced, it has never been demonstrated that they are pathogens of bacteria. In this article Dr Stefan Lanka explains how this misconception originated and how it has been refuted.
Dismantling-the-Virus-Theory.pdf
ACE2 was shown to be abundantly present in human epithelial cells of the lung and enterocytes of the small intestine as well as in endothelial cells of the arterial and venous vessels.’
Thank you Marjorie for providing this very clear and polite argument which challenges the assertions and conclusions made in this article.
Here is the link to Dr. Tom Cowans webinar on bacteriophages. What are they, do they exist, and do they prove the existence of viruses? Definitely worth a listen. If he’s mistaken, I’d like to know. Starts at about 1:54
https://drtomcowan.com/blogs/the-new-biology-learning-center/webinar-from-10-2-24?_pos=1&_sid=b2fd8cf56&_ss=r
Does a virus exist? Does coronation street exist? How deep is this Rabbit hole? Does it go all the way to Australia? No, much further. It disappears into the cosmos with no resolution. Fortunately , for most of us, there is work to be done. Kids to school, dishes to wash. Grannies to look after. We will check in occasionally to observe the madness. Otherwise there are a million other things to do.
I quickly looked at Dr. Sam Bailey’s site that you posted. It appears that she reviewed articles and reports from the late 1800’s to the early 1900’s. She may be correct that those articles do not ‘prove’ the existence of the tobacco mosaic virus, but I am extremely skeptical that no better information has come to light in, say, the last 100 years.
I’m with Dr. K … with all the information available on the structure, the actions, and the resulting illnesses that are attributed to virii it is difficult for me to see any way not to say that no virus exists.
If they do not exist, then what new hypothesis has been put forward to explain what does happen to humans ( and other species), and what is the cause of say, infulenza?
I’d be interested to learn what that new hypothesis is, and what the evidence is that supports and contradicts it.
Dr. Kendrick in this blog post claims that the tobacco mosaic virus was the first virus to be discovered.
Dr. Sam Bailey refutes this claim. In the video you reference. She looks at studies from the 1800’s onward and shows there is no proof that this virus or any other viruses exist. The methods used to isolate viruses are unscientific.
They didn’t have electron microscopes in the 1800’s, but we do now. Images that appear through electron microscopy are identified as viruses when they are merely the breakdown of cells. Dr. Bailey has a library of videos on the so called isolation of many viruses .
No better information has come to light in the last hundred years. Maybe someone will figure out how to actually isolate a virus but as of now they are figments of the imagination.
If you don’t know what causes rain. You can’t claim that it must be unicorns in the sky because we have no other explanation.
https://drsambailey.com/resources/videos/viruses-unplugged/
Perhaps you would like to explain what does cause diseases such as Ebola, or measles, or Hepatitis C if it is not viruses? Or do you believe that these diseases do not exist?
Dr. Sam Bailey explains Ebola in this video on bioweapons.
https://drsambailey.com/resources/videos/viruses-unplugged/bioweapons-bs/
And in this video, she gives reasonable alternative explanations for the Spanish flu.
https://drsambailey.com/resources/videos/viruses-unplugged/exploding-the-spanish-flu-myth/
I would recommend that you view some of Dr Sam Bailey’s many other videos concerning the issues with virology as the problems are not simply limited to publications from 100+ years ago, virology has never correctly followed the Scientific Method in order to establish the claims being made about the existence of so-called ‘viruses’.
Viruses Unplugged – Dr Sam Bailey
Also, it is important to understand that it does not require there to be an alternative hypothesis to explain disease in order to point out the flaws in virology. This is what is known as a burden of proof reversal logical fallacy.
It is likely that we simply do not know for sure what causes the majority of diseases but the sooner our so-called brightest and best stop chasing after imaginary ‘infectious’ particles the sooner we might actually make some progress in understanding what really makes us ill.
It seems like you did not at all look into the no-virus-position.
And you definitely didn’t address the (technically) only relevant question: WHERE IS THE PROOF FOR THE EXISTENCE OF VIRUSES?
An article could look like this:
“Believers were asked by skeptics to provide scientific proof for the existence of viruses.
Believers stated that paper x,y,z and laboratory method a,b,c prove the existence of viruses.
Skeptics responded by pointing out the scientific and methological flaws. These flaws are:
1.
2.
3.
…
In response to that the believers admitted defeat. No further attempts to provide proof were put forward.
This changes today, since I have scientific proof for the existence of viruses. ….”
In short, it’s a big topic and you can look at it from many angles. You can discuss contagion, PCR tests, genome sequencing, diseases like measles, isolation, CPE, etc but the basis for all that is that viruses actually exist. Which there has never been provided proof by any one (even though the no-virus-camp actively reaches out to scientists, universities, governmental institutions, etc)
Maybe you start here: https://viroliegy.com/category/viroliegy-101/
“The first virus ever to be identified was the tobacco mosaic virus”…that is a patently false statement…care to put your money where your mouth is? say 50K USD for your evidence that this was in fact the case?
Care to offer any evidence, rather than insolence?
Not many people have taken the time to look at the studies that supposedy proveed the existence of the tobacco mosaic virus. Sam Bailey looked under that rock. Here’s the proof that there is no proof of the tobacco mosaic virus.
https://drsambailey.com/resources/videos/viruses-unplugged/tobacco-mosaic-virus-the-beginning-and-end-of-virology/
As far as bacteriophages, Dr. Tom Cowan demonstrates that bacteriophages do not prove the existence of viruses and they aren’t what we’ve been taught either.
Start at 1:52
https://drsambailey.com/resources/videos/viruses-unplugged/tobacco-mosaic-virus-the-beginning-and-end-of-virology/
Dr. Kendrick– You haven’t yet scratched the surface. But from what I’ve seen, you have too curious a mind to accept anything we’ve been told at face value.
Well, you are unlikely to get struck off eh?
I struck myself off a year ago.
Nothing you say proves existence of a virus in any way shape or form.
Loss of smell is not new and is not proof of a virus, nor is dying in a strange way. A TEM image is not proof of a virus. No fancy biochemical terminology is proof of a virus. etc. You can do whatever experiments you like on tissue cultures but it doesn’t prove existence of a virus.
You need to isolate something sensible and, crucially, demonstrate that it causes disease when introduced into a healthy person. You cannot introduce a genome sequence or a black and white photograph into a healthy person.
Look up the Rosenau experiment and about 100 others. Look up the common cold unit in the UK. There are no studies that convincingly demonstrate the transmission of disease from one person to another. Why?
You need to show that the phenomena you are seeing are the cause of disease and not the result.
If influenza is contagious then the epidemiology should reflect that but it doesn’t, instead it actually rules it out: https://library-of-atlantis.com/2024/10/09/influenza-is-not-contagious/
Influenza is highly correlated with weather events. Why? https://library-of-atlantis.com/2024/06/13/influenza-and-weather/
Bring back miasma theory!
All diseases even heart attacks have a strong seasonal component: https://library-of-atlantis.com/2024/01/03/seasonal-disease/
Oximeters do not directly measure oxygen and it seems unlikely that there is any gaseous transfer across the lung membranes anyhow: https://library-of-atlantis.com/2025/01/30/do-we-breathe-oxygen/
The blood circulates but is not pumped by the heart: https://library-of-atlantis.com/2024/09/29/the-blood-can-circulate-by-itself/
You may be interested to read Hope-Simpson’s ideas about the seasonality of Influenza. Please be aware that what I write represents the tip of an iceberg. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2134066/
Unbelievable. You are completely oblivious to arguments for “no-virus” theory. You did not even mention control experiments.
Without advocating for one side or the other, it seems to me that this article is basically a summary of the conventional wisdom, and does not address the challenges to that position.
All of it.
I would suggest a look at Jamie Andrews viral control studies, as well as this site.
https://criticalcheck.wordpress.com/2021/12/15/dna-discovery-extraction-and-structure-a-critical-review/
https://controlstudies.substack.com/p/the-positive-control
(Plenty of other good articles on both sites)
I think molecular biology is mostly fraudulent now and I spent 4 years getting a degree in it years ago.
Care to expand on your comment?
Yeadon has looked at over 50 different papers on flu viruses and is now convinced they do not exist. The genetic sequence might appear in people but it doesn’t prove the ‘c’ word…contagion. Rosenau (Spanish Flu) and Sheldon Cohen (in the 80’s) couldn’t prove contagion, Cohen actually believed the problem was stress.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120402162546.htm
Other pieces struggling with contagion (including covid)…
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01284-1
leprosy contagion
http://whale.to/v/tebb/tebb2.html
TB contagion
https://x.com/RBystrianyk/status/1806749725150028064
colds 1973 no cause
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/epidemiology-and-infection/article/an-outbreak-of-common-colds-at-an-antarctic-base-after-seventeen-weeks-of-complete-isolation/1D3A49463583D06CEACE1CCF9C1A25B4
more lack of contagion
https://x.com/3dom13/status/1891372424114868454
ACE2 was shown to be abundantly present in human epithelial cells of the lung and enterocytes of the small intestine as well as in endothelial cells of the arterial and venous vessels.’
Dr Kendrick, are you aware of this? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32715618/
The point being, almost NO ACE2 receptors in lung. . .
OR did I misunderstand something here?
I think you are remarkable – thank you for having the courage to challenge things you believe to know. This is how we progress.
It’s why I devour your emails.
So glad you won your libel/defamation case.
Sarah
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Have you seen this in the papers yesterday Malcolm? The ‘polypill’ containing 3 blood thinners and a statin? To be offered to all UK males over 50?
Yup, I saw it. A lot of people pointed me at it. I thought this idea died long ago. Apparently it didn’t. four medications in one. Never tested. What could possibly go wrong?
What could go wrong? The insanity of a poly-pill a day after age 50 could be made mandatory. See Northern Irish proposal to allow forced jabbing. I assume some kind of electronic device would be used to monitor whether the person had taken their daily poison … ahem so sorry: ‘drug’.
David, Malcolm was being sarcastic, mate …
If they offer it to me, I will have a chance to see how fast I can still run at 76.
Dear Malcolm,
I bet you did not expect such an epidemic of emails on covid19.
Back to basics, i have been cogitating on the cholesterol con for some time. In simple terms arterial epithelial cells take in LDLC from serum in a lock and key mechanism in response to injury. The insoluble cholesterol forms the basis of the plaque. In evolutionary terms, this neatly plugs potentially catastrophic / fatal internal bleeding from arteries.
The liver makes more LDLC in response. Thus, elevated serum LDLC is a symptom of CVD, not the cause.
Enter the statins. They stymie cholesterol production but how does that improve secondary CVD longevity? I believe the data but do not believe there is a sufficient, credible explanation. At best statins could only slow the progression of established plaque.
Here is my theory. Such dramatic reduction in LDLC must surely reduce serum viscosity. Hence the delay in mortality/ morbidity by “better” blood flow through arteries.
I would be most interested in your opinion.
Is there good data correlating [LDLC] and viscosity, blood pressure and secondary outcome?
Yours sincerely
Nicolaas Tydens
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Great post Malcolm but what you have not covered is was there a pandemic. First of all the definition of a pandemic was changed by the WHO at some point during this debacle, convenient it would seem. Secondly a virus on a pandemic scale especially with the severity predicted in 2020 should have swept across towns and cities and yet we find vastly different coverage. Even Italy has a severe outbreak in the North but normal flu casualties elsewhere. Germany next to nothing unusual in 2020. Africa relatively unaffected and yet we are to believe this was a pandemic and not perhaps a military funded operation. When you think back to the Great Plague a remote village like Eyam was wiped out. You would be hard pressed to find a village anywhere in England that did not experience normal flu season. Which of course brings me onto the convenient almost total disappearance of the flu. The more interesting question for me is not does a virus exists but was this planned,, seized upon as it unfolded or just a sequence of random events and poor judgement
Well, there is no universally accepted definition of a pandemic. So, you can call it what you like. I am planning a few more in this series, in my head. Quick answer, it was a real virus that spread round the world. It was ‘weaponized’ for a number of different reasons. The usual. Money and power and, in the end, to protect the ‘guilty’. Also, there were good intentions. But, as Samuel Johnson said. ‘The road to hell is paved with good intentions.’
As an aside, in my research on the “covid vax” when it first came out I found 2 things early on that were the foundation of why I didn’t get the shot (first being out hasn’t been tested enough):
2 – the original SARS was treated with ivermectin
3 – every instance of trying to use mRNA as a vaccine partner had resulted in VAED in every study done.
Those made the shot a hard No for me.
2. And hydroxychloroquine.
I eagerly dove in here as you saved me from statins. Wife and I had mild colds seen off in days. Quercetin, Zinc, D3, C. Nevercswabbed, masked or jabbed. However, Parosmia, a distorted sense of taste and smell is also a Covid after effect and it developed it after this”cold”. Garlic and onion were off limits for 2 years and certain toiletries still smell awful. Plausible explanation as you explained. However, Terrain v Germ theory, the Baileys, Christine Massey FOIAs – no viruses isolated as per Koch. What about EMFS, environmental factors etc etc? I am willing to posit that a hybrid Germ Terrain mechanism may be in the middle. We are back to belief based on….?
Yours is the only message that mentions Koch. While it may not strictly follow Koch’s Postulates or the later Bradford Hill criteria, surely the following experiments would have been done early on, before viruses where claimed to be discovered:
Surely this is hardly new science: If I may submit a science fiction novel and movie as an example, consider Crichton’s Andromeda Strain. What I describe is precisely what happens in one scene (except they’re filtering air). Below a certain filtration size, they establish the lab animals are not dropping dead from the unknown agent, which they soon by looking at a filter under an electron microscope.
The easily led and divided, so-called alternative (air quotes) community and their largely video sourced knowledge will have something to say about that, I don’t doubt.
Brace yirsel, laddie!
Well done! I wonder who is behind the growth of these uninformed theories. It would seem to serve the purpose of those wanting to deflect questions about funding for gain of function research.
I’ve been tussling with the ‘viruses don’t exist’/’SARS-CoV-2 doesn’t exist’/’there was no novel disease’ [delete as appropriate] crowd for some time now. They have been inoculated against facts, evidence and science. Having said that, I do believe that, even though SARS-CoV-2 was real – and made in a lab – and could cause serious disease, it was not anywhere near as deadly as it was portrayed to be and the vast majority of deaths attributed to ‘Covid’ were caused by medical negligence, the administration of fatal ‘end of life’ drugs or simply fraudulent or incorrect death certification. In that sense, Covid was a scam and a ‘plandemic’ – and the ‘vaccine’ was neither safe, nor effective. We were had, but not by a virus which didn’t exist whose greatest trick was to convince us it did exist!
When you deduct these errors of treatment you are left with a bad flu season
Yes, a bad flu season with a novel GOF coronavirus and a novel ‘flu like disease in place of an actual mutated ‘flu virus. The world didn’t need to shut down. They shut it down.
Hmmm. I have had flu twice that I am sure about. I’m now 73. I do not think C-19 was anything like ‘flu’. It was just far, far too weird. 80 – 95% pure chocolate tasted like petrol. Absolutely disgusting! It took some time for that sensation to disappear.
At least there is a lively – if undisciplined and uninformed – public debate. That is far better than certain opinions being simply strengstens verboten.
I agree
I have screenshots as early as 4/2020 of State health dept graphs where I posted to friends stop being afraid, it only has a high death rate in the elderly, above 74 to be precise, in our state – which is the same population the flu kills every year. That never really changed in my state despite total numbers rising.
I’m not saying the elderly didn’t matter, they definitely do – but everyone else who didn’t have severe comorbidity didn’t need to be terrified. No one listened though.
Thought provoking, I shall have to question my beliefs.
Interesting take. Thanks
We have statistical proof plus a epidemiological model describing virus. If you are interested i eill send the links. You can also search online publications on Covid and preparedness for epidemics
Ana Cascon and Willian Shadwick
Those… models? Such clever stuff.
Oh dear – I find that my two most trusted sources of reliable scientific analysis are now in conflict. I would really love to see an exchange of views between you and Dr Mike Yeadon. It would be highly educational for us all.
Yeadon would lose badly.Yeadon appears to think viruses and bacteria dont exist and they are “constructs”.None of the “viruses dont exist” gang will drink any water from the ganges or sewerage outlets etc…to prove how safe it is of course.One NZ doctor actually claimed in her book that Cholera was merely water with excess “dirt” in it..yes..dirt particles can kill…sigh
He does draw attention to the many hundreds of failed experiments attempting to prove transmission of respiratory infections. There is something not quite right about ‘catching a cold’ from somebody, and points out that we mingle with cold-sufferers often without consequence in our own experience.
Surely whether a cold can be passed on or not depends on the susceptibility of the person and not whether or not there is a pathogen floating around? As Dr K has pointed out in the past, vitamin D status is a strong factor in immunity, as is zinc and other micronutrient levels. So trying to prove that a virus exists by trying to deliberately infect people is not really a valid experiment unless you can ensure that everyone’s immune function is equal, imho.
Yes, aren’t the famous (or infamous) experiments carried out back in the 1960s at the ‘Cold Research’ place (Porton Down?) trying to infect people with the cold virus with remarkable lack of success.
I agree, terrain matters
As a 3rd level student back in late 70’s living away from home, with a very minimal budget, very poor accommodation, constantly worried about conditions at home (alcoholic father & a mother barely coping) I was constantly snivelling, sneezing & miserable.
That changed as things improved with better living conditions & employment. As a keen runner between 2004 & 2010, I swear I never had as much as a runny nose.
Maybe someone smart can weigh in with some clarification. I’ve read a fair amount about Terrain Theory vs Germ Theory and don’t understand why the two have to be mutually exclusive.
The poorly tended “terrain” helps to create an environment for disease to develop, and in its weakened state, something (like a virus) is able to get a foothold. Why are some people COVID+ and asymptomatic while others wind up on their death beds?
The data is clear that people with co-morbidities are the ones at severe risk vs those who are generally healthy. This is about as strong an argument for Terrain Theory you can get, but it doesn’t (necessarily) contradict the existence of the virus.
Am I missing something?
I’m with you on that one – terrain and pathogen – it doesn’t have to be one or the other. I have my own reasons for thinking that “something” like a virus exists (as in something “contagious”) and isn’t merely a “detox” or whatever people claim it is that makes people ill (and I’m talking about something that happened to me many years ago, not Covid)
I think about the only certainty is that we are all missing quite a lot. There is the doubt about the nature of viruses, their virulence, how they should be treated or otherwise coped with, and nowadays to what extent they are artificial.
It seems to me disgraceful that so much money and effort has been devoted to creating drugs and (yes) weapons, and so little to understanding the basic nature of viruses and how they affect (or don’t) humans.
Surely, when dealing with anything that could kill millions or billions of us, we should take great care to understand it thoroughly before trying to “productise” it.
My understanding is that “terrainists” believe that infections arise innately and germs are generated by the infection and are merely by-products, whereas “germists” believe that germs come from elsewhere and cause infections.
Pasteur solved the matter to most people’s satisfaction by comparing two sterile biological solutions, one open to the air and the other one sealed. The open-air one got infected, the sealed one did not. Conclusion: you need a germ from elsewhere to get infected.
Which is not the same thing as saying that as long as you avoid germs you are okay. I’m sure Pasteur would agree that it is important to keep healthy and stay in shape.
Nope. Terrain theory is that if people are happy and healthy and well nourished, all germs will be dealt with, without causing sickness. Or, to put it another way, “Germs seek their natural habitat – diseased tissue – rather than being the cause of diseased tissue.” – Antoine Béchamp.
With Covid, some people died, others did not even realise they had been ‘infected.’ Whatever, to be infected, actually means.
“Nope. Terrain theory is that if people are happy and healthy and well nourished, all germs will be dealt with, without causing sickness. Or, to put it another way, “Germs seek their natural habitat – diseased tissue – rather than being the cause of diseased tissue.” – Antoine Béchamp.”
So, do you believe this, that germs (or whatever you want to call them) only seek out diseased tissues? So we only get diseases if we’re not happy, healthy and well-nourished which is a bit of an oxymoron isn’t it? If we’re not happy, healthy and well-nourished, we must be unhealthy, or to put it another way, sick.
Obviously, the best state to be in is happy, healthy and well nourished, duh! This implies that given that if we are all happy, healthy and well-nourished, there would be no disease?
I briefly had a very slightly sore throat for four or five days in April 2022. Normal life went on. I have no idea if it was ‘Omicron’ but maybe it was. Life seems too short to worry about such trivia. I’m healthy and nothing similar has recurred since.
That was my experience as well, all while tending to my wife who was knocked out for a week.
I take Lysine to keep my cold sores at bay, which works really well, and may explain my experience.
I wonder if a previous cold may have conferred a type of immunity to the CV as I have had others say their experience mirrored mine.
Yes, I may or may not have caught C-19 again in 2023 and like you I had a scratchy throat, felt ‘unwell’ for three or four days and then it was gone. Was it C-19 or perhaps some other virus floating around? Who knows, who cares?
‘Yeadon appears to think viruses and bacteria dont exist and they are “constructs”’.
I don’t think that is the case at all.
The great Ron Unz, who would be the first to admit that he has no medical qualifications, has recently smelled a rat where previously he smelled none. Resulting in articles like this: https://www.unz.com/runz/five-years-and-thirty-million-deaths/
What Mr Unz does have is high intelligence, an unbelievable capacity for hard work, and an astonishingly open mind. Exactly the sort of person we need more of.
The factor that Dr Kendrick has not mentioned, very understandably, is the near-certainty that nothing to do with Covid – from the “pandemic” to the “vaccines” – has been remotely natural. It seems clear that the virus itself came from a lab where it was modified with a view to “gain of function”. There is also evidence that the “vaccines” were being developed long before the first cases were reported.
I am inclined to believed that Covid was a product of the US government’s biological weapons program. Somehow the perpetrators managed to make it look as if the virus came from China.
To add to the mystery, there were rumors circulating in Russia that in 2019 there were joint Russia – China military drills in Siberia and that there was some sort of an accident at a biological weapons site in Russia. A bunch of Chinese military personnel got really sick when they got back to China, as did some Russians, apparently. But that’s just a rumor I heard.
I do know for a fact that in 2019 there was a wave of pneumonias among male teenagers in Moscow, where I was at the time. No one could figure out where it was coming from and it was resisting AB tx. I caught it myself from a teenager in January 2020. It was nasty.
I also agree with those who think Covid-19 wasn’t just a bad flu. I treated Covid and post Covid people in the US and I heard first hand reports from docs who intubated Covid patients in hospitals. I don’t think it was a bad flu. And I think we got very lucky that it mutated quickly.
I think there was an internationally attended ‘military games’ in Wuhan just before the first cases were identified in late autumn/early winter 2019. Many cases subsequently identified in returning participants in the games.
Yes, with US troops participating, there were reports of US soldiers getting sick, back in the US after returning, apparently long before the ‘official’ start of the ‘pandemic’.
That’s one of the important things about biological weapons. It takes only a tiny amount to start an epidemic; that tiny amount can easily be smuggled anywhere in all sorts of guises; and no one will ever know who was responsible.
My guess is that it was the nation whose government has a long track record of biological experimentation and warfare, that spends by far the most on such R&D, and sees Russia, China, and Iran as enemies. The USA. It can’t make any impression on them with conventional war; nuclear war kills everyone; so what would seem better (to Dr Strangelove) than a cunning virus that ideally disables only “the enemy”?
It has often been pointed out that the US contingent at the Wuhan military games included many who were remarkably inept and poor performers. Possibly sent along as carriers – although in principle a single person could do the job.
I’ve been an avid reader of Unz for years. I disagree with many details of his Covid conjectures. Especially at the current date, there is simply too much of paper trail showing that SARS type virus research was being conducted in the USA as well as many other places (including Wuhan, China) and that lots of this research was funded by U.S. government money via the National Institutes of Health via EcoHealth Alliance and perhaps via other conduits. A lot of this is unclassified and there is much academic literature. There are dark allegations of covert military “biosecurity” tie-ins, too. Why not? They’ve been caught doing dangerous stuff many times so why not now? Of course, they can hide behind national security so a lot of the dirt (if it exists) will likely never see the light of day. Covert ops are routinely disguised as “normal” funding or programs.
I peddle my own variant of the deliberate release theory. At odds with Unz’s pet conjecture that it was a rogue U.S. intelligence operation that targeted China and Iran, I propose a deliberate release but with what we might call the Deep State Money and Power Grab conjecture. Prior to the pandemic, a good case can be made for plans being laid. Event 201, curiously well-timed investments in Moderna, and such. Who knows what else hasn’t been revealed?
If you wanted to start a worldwide pandemic and gain power and riches by duping the public via a controlled media and most governments, what better virus than one that was annoying, highly contagious but not particularly deadly? As a bonus, any specialist that examined its genome would readily see that it was almost certainly manmade, even if he was prohibited from broaching that belief.
Although it’s a long shot, my conjecture explains it all: The entire pandemic could have been started, hypothetically, by a single agent seeding the virus presumably in Wuhan in late 2019. Once it caught, a cadre of spooks then would spring into action, manipulate media, government, etc. to whip up the panic, impose draconian measures, and eventually gain to the tune of trillions of dollars of emergency spending. Not a bad profit for relatively little expense, and what of a few million deaths?
Apart from ganges water tasting disgusting (I’d imagine), nobody in their right mind would wish to drink water contaminated by raw sewage & corpses in various stages of decay. I think we are satisfied that harmful bacteria exists.
jer savage
Perhaps the apparently widespread disbelief in the existence of various incredibly small organisms, too small to actually see, has more to do with a general and understanable, mistrust in the ‘system’ and the fact that we, the public, are constantly being sold a pack of lies and told it’s the truth.
I am in exactly the same position as they are my most trusted sources too!
I would like to see a discussion between Dr. Kendrick and Dr. Mark Bailey. It doesn’t need to be a debate.
Thank you for your sincere and thoughtful presentation. From my review, I am reading a bit of an “if B then A” argument. In other words, if pulmonary, GI, vascular or sensory loss occurs, then CV19 must exist. As a primary care physician practicing and witnessing the entire event from late 2019 to present, once testing kits become readily available to anyone in the public (and even provided for free by the US government), any symptom (or in some case no symptoms, since we were advised it can be an asymptomatic disease) that motivated a person to test themselves produced a result. If positive, there was a panicked call to my office, if negative and symptomatic, many patients kept testing until they got a positive test. In some cases they’d have four negatives and one positive and choose to believe the positive! Since the fever pitched publicity has dampened significantly, I mostly get calls from patients, and some employees who get a typical batch of URI symptoms, significant enough to cause one to stay home from work, who then get a readily available home testing kit, test themselves and call in sick with “Covid”. Usually the typical management of rest, fluids and OTC remedies applied over 7-10 days sees a resolve in the symptoms. Having never experienced these symptoms, nor ever tested positive (since I haven’t been tested), my practice promotes and I live my life trying to optimize my daily health through nutrition (check out the Nutrition Network), fitness as prescribed by Glassman, and adequate rest.
Causality is always a tricky area. If someone comes out with contradictory evidence I am happy to change my mind. I try to go where science leads, but all of us can be guilty of deciding to make the science fit with preconceived ideas. I find I am the easiest person to be fooled by myself, usually.
Likewise! That is why I appreciate your thoughts and exemplary honesty and transparency. Thank you!
Having believed and practiced a specific way for over 33 years, I have been impressed with some of the recent posts and thoughts from Dr. Noakes, who like you, I greatly respect. I have rather enjoyed being challenged in my personal thoughts and beliefs on the subject, as well as entertaining several juxtaposed ideas regarding this matter as I observe the symptoms and behaviors of those under my care, as well as the hypotheses regarding the etiology of their condition.
The Paper “A Farewell to Virology” by Dr Mark Bailey is very well worth reading. I too have huge respect for Prof Tim Noakes, who, after doing his due diligence, agrees with the Baileys.
Blaming an invisible “Virus” for all sorts of diseases is extremely convenient. It creates fear and deflects our attention from things that are the real cause – eg industrial and environmental poisons, air pollution, stress and fear, consuming lousy junk food with all the additives, emfs bombarding us from all angles, Medications (Statins, SSRIs , PPI’s), poverty, inadequate sunshine etc to name some.
PS I am a huge supporter of Dr Malcolm Kendrick and have all his books. Also grateful he and Zoe won their case.
It seems that we have a near-perfect case for the time-tested method of suspending judgment (epoche). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension_of_judgment
Dr Kendrick presents us with the conventional knowledge about viruses. A few others make what appears to be a strong case for that conventional knowledge being wrong, or at least incomplete.
Both sides seem honest, credible, competent, and trustworthy. What a marvellous opportunity for comparative analysis!
We had a pandemic of unreliable testing I will concede that
Since I have not heard of any reliable test for Covid.
“then CV19 must exist”…
What exactly are you saying, that all those people who are now a meter or more under the ground imagined their own deaths?
We know that tests are not fully reliable but generally medical science identifies viruses as disease causes pretty well, unless of course, you also tend to believe that the HIV virus does not cause Aids.
“…unless of course, you also tend to believe that the HIV virus does not cause Aids”.
Funny you should mention that.
I would encourage everyone to read the research of Prof’ Norman Fenton on the subject of the Pandemic (not was there a virus or not)
I agree. Norman Fenton is worth listening to.
Great article..as usual.You are going to drag to some cranks out with this post .
Once you knew that the new spike protein fitted perfectly onto ACE2 receptors.
Once we knew that the virus had first contact in the Nose/ACE2 receptors etc it made sense to interfere with that process using Nitric Oxide etc
The much maligned Dr Sarah Myhill also recommended regular inhalation using an “iodised salt pot, as the iodine “kills” (destroys) viruses. Seemed to help us a lot when we had the “something”…
Hmm … this must be why I continue to use iodised kitchen salt ! [grin]
I take a potassium iodide pill with my supplements at dinner.
“When you know not what, where, and why – Prescribe ye therefore K and I”.
Excellent article. Very well explained.
On numbers, I find it easy to believe that a coke can could contain all the Covid virus in the world. The can would contain about 10^17 viruses, or more than a million times the number of humans on Earth. I have seen an estimate that the total number of viruses of all types is approximately 10^31. This number would occupy a space of at least one cubic kilometre, which does seem rather a lot.
Reminiscent of the finding that all the humans on Earth could stand on the Isle of Wight, or Zanzibar. (Hence John Brunner’s 1968 SF novel “Stand on Zanzibar”). That misses the point, as the people who claim it proves that “there is plenty of room” and no danger of overpopulation forget about food production, clean water, and all the other necessities of sustainable life.
That a certain number of viruses would fit into a can proves nothing, as the whole point of a virus is that it uses the body’s own resources to multiply. The virus is just an instruction booklet or code fragment.
Love this post Dr K. Like you I’m open to all ideas, but at some point we have to draw the line at those ideas that take plausible truths just one step too far. The viruses don’t exist idea was for me just a bit too far. I have to take care not to throw out the baby with the bathwater, but it’s hard to accept anything that an individual expresses once they’ve crossed that line. I found this a lot during the covid years. Get people on side with your view, present truths, then add a few plausible truths, then once you’ve hooked people in, you can throw in a bat-shit crazy idea and folk will go along with it. I’m still here reading your substack! 👍
Humans like black and white and the further along the left brain spectrum our society goes, the more difficult it is to employ the right brain, which sees it for all its holistic complexity and nuance, able to embrace the uncertainty and unpredictability of the world be are part of.
Looking forward to your next stack!
Dr. Kendrick,
Please consider attending the CoSci (Collaborative Science) conference next year in Las Vegas and giving a presentation. You will be in very good company. You are likely already aware of it, but if not, https://cosci.org.
Always appreciate your work, sir.
Thanks Malcolm,
You always make so much sense, and even a layman like me can understand you perfectly. Thank you for your time.
Best wishes,
Richard
Useful input. Recently I seemed to annoy Mike Yeadon who was saying there is no evidence that viruses exist, it’s all been a scam from the start with false science and that however much I researched the literature I would find no firm evidence. He suggests there can be other endo factors and of course all the novel industrial chemicals that are now ubiquitous in the environment and I am on side with that. I also agree with his assessment that the pseudo-mRNA vaccines have three designed ill effects. My view is, first, that unless there is a reason some biological class of things cannot exist that class probably does exist, and the virus seems to be a good way of parasitically replicating RNA or DNA. I did mention the tobacco mosaic virus from the 1890s (before Rockefeller medicine really took off), and the many micrographs of virus particles. I can agree that some micrographs are not solid proof and maybe the scientific proof needs more work, such as in some way ‘seeing’ viral replication. I too thought that sars-cov-2 was a virus though with no overall worse effect than other influenza like illnesses. It was exploited for malicious ends. If there is any medic that I would trust to do no harm it is you, so your experience with elderly patients is crucial evidence. Presumably you were using a finger oxygen saturation monitor and for some reason peripheral circulation was oxygen poor and bigger arteries were not, maybe micro clotting that a few minutes later blocked bits of brain and brain stem and bonk. Sadly, I accept that I am at the extreme elderly end of life but I am metabolically healthy and keep D3/K2/Mg in the needed range and have suffered no significant respiratory infections for years. My other input, that I may have put here before, is that I used to have occasional ‘cold sores’ twice a year that I suppressed with an acyclovir cream but upping my serum D3 this last few years has really crushed the herpes simplex virus.
Well I caught C-19 (I assume) in December 2020 and ended up in A&E. My only symptomd was briefly feeling unwell whilst I was taking a shower, that I thought was heart-related. Once in A&E I was tested (I don’t know what test was used) and told I had Covid-19. My blood oxygen was 99% but an X-ray revealed pneumonia in my left lung (I was 75 at the time) that 5 days of antibiotic took care of. I felt fine during the entire time. I assume I have a good immune system as I don’t catch colds and I haven’t had the flu for 45 years (at least any symptoms). I do pick up the occasional virus but it rarely lasts more than 3 days, again I assume it’s my excellent immune system doing its job. BTW, I haven’t been jabbed and I take my vits (D3/K2, C, B12, Zinc and Magnesium and Yeast tabs) and I think as good, balanced a diet as is possible in the UK. I’ll be 80 this year and amazed I’ve survived this long. As someone said, if I’d known I’d live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.
“I’ll be 80 this year and amazed I’ve survived this long. As someone said, if I’d known I’d live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.”
I am not sure life is like that…
There are very healthy people who take very good care of themselves and cancer for example gets them very early while others do everything that is prohibited and they grow very old.
Of course if you kill your liver with alcohol and similar things, it’s game over, but I tend to believe a certain fysical stress is not necessarily always a bad thing as it could activate protection mechanisms in the body.
I doubt the bit about the test – which looks like the only reason for diagnosing you with Covid. There is no laboratory test for Covid, although a good experienced doctor like Dr Kendrick might tentatively diagnose it based on signs and symptoms.
Dr Kary Mullis, let us remember, who invented PCR, was absolutely positive that it could not be used for diagnosis.
Should not be used, not could not be used. You can definitely test for any virus, but it takes a lot of time and effort. You need to take a sample, culture it in other cells and see if you get the virus you were looking for in the first place.
What the PCR was developed to do was exactly what was the process 1 mRNA manufacturing process, so the pitfalls of excessive cycles and poor ?epitope/peptide selection was well known to those who produced the ‘tests’. Sadly most of the Covid deaths and mainly injuries have proven to be down to process 2 mRNA manufacturing process and the lipid nanoparticle delivery system foisted on the uninformed public by those who knew they were neither safe nor effective according to the trials conducted.
As I remember, Dr Mullis’ argument was exactly that, with PCR, you could find anything at all in a human body. But that didn’t mean that what you had found was the cause of illness. The quantitative approach is vital, and it’s possible that everyone in the world has some coronavirus or fragments of it lurking in their cells or intracellular fluid. With PCR, the tiniest fragment could be multiplied exponentially (for once a proper use of that much-abused word).
I did write “for diagnosis”, and I don’t see how Covid can be diagnosed just because a petient has some arbitrarily tiny amounts of the virus somewhere in the body.
I’m not trying to be awkward, but I would like to understand why Dr Mullis could be wrong.
Going to advance, send reinforcements.
Pass it down the line.
After the message had been whispered from one soldier to another down the trenches (WWI) it became
Going to a dance send three and fourpence
An old joke from a long gone war
PCR can do exactly the same if you repeat the message often enough
It was exploited for malicious ends. Exactly.
The people who erroneously persuaded themselves that viruses don’t exist were not, as far as I can see, being malicious. They were wrong but we are all wrong sometimes.
Whereas the ruling classes, and almost the whole of the medical trades, were wrong and malicious. I can’t tell who were guilty of lying and who guilty only of insufficiently critical thinking and recklessness.
No matter: go medieval on ’em, God will know his own.
The incentives have to be changed for next time. Fierce punishment is necessary.
“…I am metabolically healthy and keep D3/K2/Mg in the needed range and have suffered no significant respiratory infections for years”.
Good for you! I do the same, plus walking a lot. But does that suggest it’s the terrain ONLY that matters, or that healthy terrain keeps out the viruses that otherwise might harm us? The argument seems to work (in different ways) whether disease is caused by viruses or not.
One aspct of the matter that Dr Yeadon has made us aware of is the possibility that concerted “enemy action” is in play. That there are vast conspiracies in industry, government, and research. That some viruses may be artificial weapons. That there may be profit-motivated links between artificial viruses and “vaccines”. Ordinary decent lay people and doctors may not consider such possibilities, and may even recoil in shock at the very idea. But there is evidence of such things.
One COVID-19 event not discussed since it happened was the quick shift from the Delta COVID-19 to the Omicron variant. Seemed to happen overnight, with the Omicron variant quickly taking over.
I vaguely recall reading a study that said the Omicron variant (the one still floating around today, though greatly changing) is so very different from the original COVID-19 to almost look as though it too was manufactured.
Though there is no proof, and probably never will be, I’m convinced the much less deadly and mild Omicron variant was set loose purposely to slow down/end the more mistakenly released original more deadly variant. I mean, why make just one variant on the lab when you can make many!
That was to scare your pants off.
Yours sincerely
Mat Handcock
There are other similar anomalies. For instance, why did Covid take off like a rocket in Iran so early, and apparently kill a lot of important political and military leaders? Why the much-touted carnage in Italy (even if the photos of lines of trucks were fake)?
Good questions.
COVID works in mysterious ways it’s wonders to perform.
There was a time when you could blame COVID for anything you like. Say what you like, claim what you like. Show people dropping to the ground, dead. In that fevered environment, all nonsense was possible
Fantastic, highly interesting!
I remain convinced viruses are like unicorns, figments of the imagination. In all these decades, they have never been scientifically proven proven to exist nor cause disease. Read, “Can You Catch A Cold” by Daniel Roytas. All contagion studies fail or fall short. Virologists in their studies do not use negative controls, they never purify, isolate. They whip out the electron microscope and draw an arrow to the tiny blob that most looks like what they have described and pencil in, “virus”! Virology is rife with logical fallacy. It is pseudoscience. https://viroliegy.com/2025/02/02/wheres-the-virus/
Do an experiment. Have yourself injected with HIV or Ebola. And see what happens. Let’s see if after that experiment you’re still so sure.
To make this experiment possible you would first have to isolate ‘HIV’ or ‘Ebola’ in order to be able to inject this. That has never been done.
Yes, and the earth is flat.
For your information, both viruses have been isolated. Don’t spread utter nonsense.
Really? HIV isolated? Please provide a credible reference.
I don’t know about ebola, but every few years there is a panic story of an ebola outbreak and it is so infectious that tens of thousands could die. We get the obligatory person returning to the UK from a supposed outbreak area and a large unspecified number of people in the UK are at risk. Then ,…………….NOTHING. There’s also the point that as ebola is supposedly a hemorrhagic disease, vitamin C would be a useful treatment.
Oris this utter nonsense as well?
No, that is not the case. Both of these alleged ‘viruses’ have merely been ‘isolated’ – since virologists have misappropriated this term so it has become a far cry from the actual dictionary definition of isolation, i.e. separate from everything else. If you want to perform an experiment to prove that a particular particle causes a disease effect, you would first need to isolate the particle from everything else. This is basic science.
There exist many papers which claim to have ‘isolated’ various ‘viral pathogens’ but when you actually examine the methodology in these papers you will see that at no point have these alleged particles ever been isolated in the true sense of the word.
Virology is pseudoscience.
@Lynne
“If you want to perform an experiment to prove that a particular particle causes a disease effect, you would first need to isolate the particle from everything else. This is basic science.”
No, it is not. You listen to pseudoscientists too much without having a clue how (medical) science works.
When we expose people to enough radiation, we can observe they develop cancer.
When we expose people to too much oxygen, we can observe the symptoms that arise.
We don’t need to isolate radiation or oxygen particles to prove they cause symptoms.
Apart from that, earlier you wrote:
“Whist it is true that ‘bacteriophages’ have been isolated/purified and sequenced (…)”
For your information: Bacteriophages are viruses. Wile at the same time you tell me that viruses cannot be isolated… Do you still understand your own thoughts? I cannot follow them anymore. Either you know viruses exist or you wrongly believe they do not exist but both is impossible.
About AhNotepad:
From a 1999 article:
“Since 1967, there have been several episodes of human infections with Ebola or Marburg. In most cases, an infection causes high fever and uncontrolled internal and external bleeding, such as from the nose, eyes, gums, or through the skin after receiving an injection. Although the period spans 33 years, we are only aware of a total of 1300 to 1500 infected patients. The aggressiveness of the virus is evident from the high mortality rate: about seventy percent of patients died within three weeks of infection.
While this percentage may be impressive, the total number of deaths is not. It is almost negligible compared to, for example, the HIV virus, which is responsible for AIDS: over the past 18 years, about forty million people have been infected, of which 15 million have died. It is clear that we should fear the dwarf HIV more than the giants Ebola and Marburg.”
So things need to be seen in perspective. Yes, Ebola, Marburg, these outbreaks and cases must be monitored but they are highly mediatized and far from being as dangerous to masses of people as HIV and Covid are
Yes, HIV was isolated. If you don’t accept how “isolation” is understood in medical-scientific terms, that is your problem.
My advice: Don’t get involved with pseudoscience spreading all kinds of nonsense, half-truths, etc. before you have seriously studied at least the basics of virology.
You folks hear some pieces here, some pieces there, not knowing the complete picture and every clever person can make you believe utter nonsense.
My advice: Don’t get involved with pseudoscience spreading all kinds of nonsense, half-truths, etc. before you have seriously studied at least the basics of virology.
You folks hear some pieces here, some pieces there, not knowing the complete picture and every clever person can make you believe utter nonsense.
Excellent advice, “Don’t get involved with pseudoscience” “believe the pseudoscience of virology” instead.
It is interesting that you do not offer knowledge, just castigate people if they have a view that is different from yours. Best go off and consort with the rest of your like minded folks.
I encourage people not to resort to direct criticism and/or attacks others, if possible. Thank you
The existence of bacteriophages is questionable.
Bacteria exist but in the process of isolating”bacteriophages” there are cytopathic effects, just as is the case when viruses are ïsolated” When toxic substances are added to cell cultures, cells breakdown. The same flawed methodology is used to isolate “bacteriophages”as is used to isolate “viruses.”
Dr. Tom Cowan goes back to the original study. Even the author of the study questions whether what he is seeing is simply cells breaking down rather than an independent something called a bacteriophage.
https://drtomcowan.com/blogs/the-new-biology-learning-center/webinar-from-10-2-24?_pos=1&_sid=265e95cc0&_ss=r
It isn’t unscientific to question everything and examine the methods that are used to promote bogus scientific theories. If we didn’t do that, we’d still be avoiding eggs because they contain cholesterol, although maybe now we should start avoiding them because of nonexistent bird flu.
@Leon
“Bacteriophages are viruses”
They have been assumed to be ‘viruses’ but it has never been demonstrated that they attack bacteria. This is discussed at length by Stafan Lanka here: Dismantling-the-Virus-Theory.pdf
However, what is correct is that the particles known as bacteriophages have been properly isolated (i.e. purified), in order to accurately determine their genetic composition. However, this has NEVER been done with any so-called pathogenic virus.
If you believe it has, say for example for ‘HIV’ or ‘Ebola’, find a paper and point to the precise part of the methodology section where actual purification has taken place.
Without a sample of purified ‘HIV’ or purified ‘Ebola’ it is impossible to inject anyone with these to prove they are pathogenic as you suggest.
You cannot compare so-called ‘viruses’ with oxygen or radiation because they are not the same. Virologists are claiming that ‘viruses’ are particles which can be seen with EM and have been measured, that different ‘viruses’ are responsible for causing very different sets of symptoms and that they have been genetically sequenced. None of this is possible without the purification of these particles and that has never been done.
Question: if purification of so-called ‘bacteriophages’ has taken place, why has this never been done for any so-called ‘viruses’?
@Lynne
Your Dr. Lanka says in a German document:
“The Role of the Brain
One cause of severe and recurring symptoms and pain are processes in the brain during the rebalancing phase after prolonged special programs. The metabolism of the affected tissue area and the associated brain region are switched from cellular respiration to fermentation by an existential and prolonged event. Cellular respiration is the metabolic process in which the cell uses oxygen to generate energy and substances, whereas in fermentation, no oxygen is used. In the process, the so-called connective tissue (matrix) of the brain also changes to optimize fermentation processes. When cellular respiration resumes after the resolution of an existential event, the matrix of the affected tissue area and brain region must first be optimized for respiration. There are quite obvious, particularly brain-related, limiting factors that can trigger or even cause a dramatic restart of the special program with fatal consequences from within.
From this knowledge, which is still being researched, entirely different, especially gentler and more cost-effective possibilities for preventing, diagnosing, and treating so-called physical and mental illnesses arise. What we still refer to today as cancer, but also depression, mania, unnecessary aging, and much more, is understood, preventable, and treatable at its root cause. These are preventable complications during the rebalancing of special programs, in which the kidneys also play a crucial role, often leading to severe symptoms, pain, and fatal outcomes such as heart attack and stroke.”
( https://wissenschafftplus.de/uploads/article/Wissenschafftplus_02_15_Virus_vor_Gericht.pdf
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It is not an answer to your question, I know. I don’t want to put energy in answering it because I am sure whatever I will say will not convince you.
However, the above text (and it is just part of an even more lunatic text) makes it clear to me that your source is a quack.
If I were to choose, I would rather put my money on homeopathy and acupuncture than what your Dr. Lanka is asserting.
Another clear indication your source is a quack:
He is asserting: “Furthermore, it is now a ruling of the highest court that the entire field of virology has been disproven.”
None of the involved courts, however, have made such a ruling. It is utter nonsense.
@Leon
You are not presenting any actual evidence to support your assertions, you are simply making one logical fallacy after another.
Perhaps let’s try this another way: Imagine that I said I would agree to your, somewhat macabre, experiment to be injected with ‘HIV’ or ‘Ebola’ to prove a point. How would you prove to me that what was in the injection was purely particles of ‘HIV’ or ‘Ebola’?
I have studied this area for a long time. One fact that convinced me, more than any other, about viruses – their existence, or not (particularly with HIV and AIDS) was the fact that children with hemophilia, in the UK, who received factor VIII ended up suffering from both HIV and hepatitis C, as it had not been screened for in the serum they received. Many have since died.
So, you could say that in one, rather terrible way, significant parts of Koch’s postulates were proven. People infected with AIDS and/or Hep C donated blood, which was not screened, before being given to children with hemophilia.
The viruses then infected these children. They then displayed the classical symptoms of the infections and many of them died. Not quite as drastic as deliberately infecting people with Ebola, but the results were, I believe, inarguable.
Whether HIV caused those tragic deaths is questionable. Dr. Sam Bailey has addressed this in the article linked below.
“I am unaware of any research demonstrating HIV patients in any human or animal studies showing transmission of ïnfected”blood can cause a recipient to develop AIDS. In Virus Mania we explain that HIV cannot be the explanation for the development of AIDS in haemopheliacs. Increased death rates did correspond to changes such as the introduction of änti viral pharmaceuticals including the highly toxic AZT in HIV positive patients.”
https://drsambailey.com/the-covid-sceptics-who-spread-viral-dogma/
Then how did all those people treated with infected blood acquire HIV?
Virologists change the definition of isolation, so that it is meaningless. They never prove that they’ve isolated anything, never mind an independent self replicating particle that causes illness and is contagious. They point to a squiggle that was found with an electron microscope and call it a virus.
A closer look into virology might make an interesting epilogue to “Doctoring Data.”
I think you should speak with Drs Mark and Sam Bailey and Dr Andrew Kauffman whom I believe will render all your arguments as null and void.
Can anyone who insists that viruses exist answer these five questions put forth by doctor Tom Cowan to virologists?
https://drtomcowan.com/blogs/blog/five-simple-questions-for-virologists?srsltid=AfmBOootGp31Bn4JUXSdPvkkz8QI5Gmc0a-Et1xMwJDvqG5tUXmC97Ix
Great article!
I really love how you have stated, and often repeat, how medicine has been wrong in the past, and can be wrong again. I keep a list on my phone to have handy when people argue “but all of the doctors (or scientists) can’t be wrong!” – bed rest after a heart attack, AZT will cure AIDS, radical mastectomies, coronary artery bypass graft, Thalidomide, vitamin E supplements, Vioxx. (If there are better ones, or any are wrong, please point them out!)
Sadly, the medical & pharma worlds are shot full of just-so stories. It’s called Marketing. They excel at it! They have been at it a loooong time, and have an all too often gullible public to practice upon.
Excellent article. It is nice to see some reports on actual science. As a journalist who retired 15 years ago, I became increasingly dismayed at the so-called ‘scientific studies’ showing up in scientific journals. The actual research results sometimes, or even often, were in contradiction the the summary and conclusions at the beginning of the report on the study. It appeared that the authors of the study decided beforehand what they wanted to ‘prove’ and when their study didn’t prove it, they reported that it had. The knew the vast majority of journalists were not going to look beyond the summary, and were certainly not going to wade through all jargon used in the explanation of the research design, which were often very poor, and not even remotely scientific.
There are apparently more than a thousand fake scientific journals with legitimate-sounding names now, and the ‘research’ in them is accepted by some universities.
Dr. Kendrick, when you say “But in many ways, it doesn’t’ really matter where it came from” I would respectfully disagree. If it was made in a lab, the entire pandemic could have been avoided. What we know: US funded research in the Wuhan lab, many respected scientists conclude it was gain-of-function research, and the first people to be ill were neard the Wuhan lab. Sounds like enough evidence to bring a case to court. As a US citizen who lost my sister to this disease, I am writing and urging my elected officials to pass legislation to outlaw such research. Assuming it did spring from an exotic Chinese animal, why even do this risky research anyway? Best Regards, you are a champion of your profession, a light in the darkness.
Gain of function research was made illegal by the Obama administration. That’s why Fauci funded it through Ecohealth.
It’s worth mentioning that among his last official acts, outgoing President Biden (or more likely, given his mental state, unknown handlers) granted Dr. Fauci a blanket pardon even though (to my knowledge) not having been accused, much less convicted, of any crimes. One can only conjecture what evil stuff Fauci was involved with. It’s likely the full story will never come out.
Biden might as well have stuck as big red guilty sign on Fauci’s forehead. ‘You have just been pardoned for things that no-one even knows you have done – yet.’ I was amused.
Back in the 20th century Dr Mullis was utterly scathing about Fauci. He repeatedly challenged him to a public debate, but Fauci would never accept. Mullis said that Fauci was not a real scientist at all, more of a bureaucrat/ entrepreneur.
Gresham’s Law applies to scientists too! “Bad scientists drive out good”. Drive them out of the corridors of power, anyway.
Exactly. If the whole thing was cooked up deliberately and with malice (or profit) aforethought, all bets are off. And honest people like Dr Kendrick who think no harm may come to incorrect conclusions because they accept information that is systematically falsified.
Hence I strongly recommend Ron Unz’s recent articles, such as https://www.unz.com/runz/five-years-and-thirty-million-deaths/
What I don’t understand is this: “gain of function research” is certainly dual use. If China is our greatest geopolitical competitor, why would US fund in China a technology that can be used for military purposes. Doesn’t make sense to me.
Long story short.: Both “countries” are products/agents/puppets of the Big Money crowd, just as both “sides” were funded by the international banking clique in the lead up to WW2.
Here’s a primer…
https://www.mygen.com/users/ufo/Mao_was_a_Yale_Man.html
At the risk of getting off topic – and I think Dr Kendrick is flexible about that if the discussion is interesting – there are several explanations. First, most people would reason as you did and immediately exculpate the USA. That’s the sort of trick the CIA rejoices in. Second, as already mentioned the US government had prohibited that type of research in the USA. Ignoring the spirit of the law, Fauci and his chums stuck to the letter which allowed them to “offshore” the work. Third, if as I suspect the whole point was to attack China and other “adversaries”, Wuhan was an ideal place to have the lab work done as it teed up the obvious “lab leak” theory. Fourth, it’s a general rule that when testing anything potentially ghastly, you should do it as far from home as possible. hence the (literally) dozens of US biowarfare labs in Ukraine, some of them still working today.
And not just the Ukraine!
https://williambowles.info/2025/02/26/kazakhstan-as-a-new-biological-testing-ground-for-us-dod/
“The increased interest in Kazakhstan’s biological potential by the United States likely stems from Washington’s desire to gain access to the scientific base left behind by the former Soviet Union in order to identify and control particularly dangerous pathogens, including those of natural origin.
“Since 2023, the US Defense Department has been conducting a series of activities in Kazakhstan aimed at organizing biological research into dangerous infectious diseases, based on the National Research Institute for Biological Safety located in Gvardeisky, Zhambyl Region. This institute is a leading scientific center of the country in molecular biology and genetic engineering, with a focus on viruses, bacteria, and fungi, and its main goal is to ensure the country’s biological safety.”
Dr, what are your views on Christine Massey’s FOI requests & Stefan Lana’s ruling in Germany?
Typo it should read Lanka.
I’ve always thought viruses exist but what did concern me was the West’s concerted decision to classify “death with Covid” as being the same as “died of Covid”. It would seem possible to class wearing a red jumper to be deadly using the same criteria and definitions. Yes, Mr Smith died wearing a red jumper so obviously red jumpers are deadly. Any thoughts?
With this one difference that red jumpers don’t cause a typical set of severe symptoms.
Of course people were misclassified, no doubt about that but on the other hand, during the pandemic most people who went to the hospital and occupied hospital beds were people with severe Covid symptoms, so we can be pretty sure the majority died directly or indirectly because of Covid. And even if 25% of people who died were misclassified, we are still talking about an epidemic.
“I never like to say that something is true, or false, or a fact, as this makes it very difficult to examine that thing again with an open mind. I prefer to define ideas as probable, possible and unlikely.”
I wish more people had this enlightened attitude. I cringe every time I see the word “proof” and its variations.
I have never been able to see that “proof” means any more than “Well, I’m convinced”. Even if people point to “rigorous” mathematical proofs, I still wonder why they believe that the proofs mean what they think.
Dr. Kendrick,
Thank you for this most informative article. It did help me to clear up many aspects.
I am very sorry that you have been treated horribly by the system. Your stance on homocysteine is, in my opinion, correct and I appreciate you bringing forth the information that you have.
I have been a doctor in South Central Missouri for nearly 50 years but I am not currently seeing patients after being attacked by the medical system for a simple paper error. It consisted of being so busy setting up a new office after moving that I overlooked notifying the controlled substance regulatory board. They brought criminal charges against me for distribution of narcotics. Essentially making it appear that I was a drug dealer when all I was doing was providing appropriate medication for those in pain. At a hearing I was given no opportunity to explain anything.
I invite you to look at my web site downtoearthmedicine.org where you will find some of my writings. I have also done numerous videos that can be found on the internet.
You did not mention the contribution of the 5G radiation which I believe has importance and can be seen in one of my articles. Paul Walker the editor of News With Views has placed my articles on his web site. I would encourage you to contact him and offer being a contributor to News With Views. At this time I believe I am the only doctor contributing. I am especially pleased to have gotten such a world wide response to my article called The Jab. For about 1 1/2 years Duckduckgo had me at the top of the search. The Jab can still be found there but it has been moved many notches downward.
May you be blessed as you continue to serve mankind.
Dr. Ure
I think it’s clear that responses to covid caused more harm than the virus.
One of the harmful responses often sited was the excessive use of oxygen which is toxic in high concentrations.
Your observation of unusually low blood oxygen levels made me wonder if doctors were responding with integrity rather than as panicked morons?
Do you think early use of high concentrations of oxygen was justified?
Of course too much oxygen is toxic, but that was never the problem with Covid.
If people have extremely low oxygen levels, they need to be treated, simple as that, or they might die very suddenly as Dr. Kendrick described.
The real problem with Covid and oxygen was, that certainly in the beginning of the epidemic, people with low but not extremely low oxygen were put on ventilators to soon. And we know that generally speaking, 50% of people who are put on a ventilator will die. Not only because of the ilness they are already suffering from, but because ventilators come with their own problems.
Thanks. I understand the ventilator problem but I’ve read excess oxygen was an additional problem.
Excess oxygen can cause widespread damage, in neonates it can lead to blindness. However, this is now pretty well controlled, with oxygen levels monitored far more effectively, and easily, than in the past.
The main issue with ventilation is that you are blowing up the lungs artificially again, and again, and again. This, in the end, can lead to widespread lung damage, and death. It is not something you should start doing unless you are pretty certain you will be able to stop doing it after a reasonably short time period.
I believe that many people were, effectively, killed by ventilation. What most of them they required was, simply, high flow oxygen with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). They did not have trouble actually breathing, they just couldn’t get enough oxygen in doing so.
Those, who I know, who work in ICUs vehemently deny this and go onto the attack very quickly if you dare suggest that they over-treated and damaged people in the first couple of months. I understand this response. No doctor likes the idea that they did harm, rather than good. But I think they did. And especially in the US, where hospitals were paid a considerable amount of money for each person they put on a ventilator. Off the top of my head it was $36K per patient ventilated.
This will all be waved away as ‘It was all very difficult, we were under huge stress, we had to do something.’ Which is the usual argument to excuse poor decisions making with Covid. Or ‘it wasn’t my fault, someone else told me to do it.’ If I have learned anything from the Covid response it is that highly trained and intelligent people need to be able to decide for themselves the best actions to take. Not cowed by the ‘experts’ and regulatory bodies. We became sheep, lined up to take orders from above – by people who hadn’t the faintest idea what they were doing.
It was all very depressing.
I realize that human civilization can only work if most people go along with ‘the consensus.’ But there are times when the consensus could wipe us out.
Of interest, this news just arrived in my inbox this morning.
20,000 Covid crisis ventilators were scrapped, FOI reveals
Thousands of ventilators bought during the COVID-19 pandemic were destroyed after never being used by the NHS, a Freedom of Information request has revealed.
Public money, totalling more than £100 million, was lost in a series of disposals from the UK’s strategic reserve of intensive care unit equipment built up during the pandemic, according to official data.
Final figures, obtained by Doctors.net.uk under the Freedom of Information Act, show more than 20,000 ventilators were scrapped for recycling.
Another 6,000 ventilators, costing up to £50,000 each, were sold at auction for a fraction of their original price.
Nearly 200,000 items of ICU equipment were held by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) in the stockpile.
Items were purchased at the height of the Covid crisis for distribution to hospitals across the UK as critical care capacity was being overwhelmed by surging infections…..The UK Covid-19 Inquiry in London this week was told how a “ventilator procurement Wild West” broke out as global demand for equipment soared in March 2020.
Yes, the jolly old panic. I do find it interesting that people cannot even do simple sums. If ventilators cost £50K each, and twenty thousand were scrapped. This is £50,000 x 20,0000 = £1,000,000,000 (One billion, not one hundred million). One billion was, or course, but a drop in the ocean of the money wildly thrown about, and utterly wasted, at the time.
Did you notice anyone with a new ferarri, a yacht and six new Rolls Royce cars at the time? Probably not, they were living in a tax haven no doubt.
Thank you Dr. Kendrick. I’m a big fan and have followed you for years.
Yes, very depressing. Especially since no lessons have been learned, no one has been held to account, and nothing has been done to prevent a recurrence, including stopping GOF research.
Many doctors are still transfecting children with mRNA, despite a mountain of evidence that this has many risks, with zero benefits. Complexity cannot be blamed. The mRNA transfection risks are easily understood from basic first principles and do not require a degree in immunology.
I guess to stop would require doctors to admit they harmed and killed many people, and the denial circuit in their brains won’t permit them to do that.
“I realize that human civilization can only work if most people go along with ‘the consensus.”
Yes, but the restrictive framework for doctors of (semi-)mandatory guidelines causes unnecessary suffering and deaths I am sure.
I see it as the modern rot of medicine. Doctors should get more autonomy again, of course to be used in consultation with their patients.
CPAP MACHINES WER BANNED THEN, I AM ADVISED. How widespread that may hav been I don’t know. But why ?
This may explain more.
“Because CPAP machines can increase the aerosolization of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, Al Ashry explained. He added this is “probably true for other viruses and bacteria, not only COVID-19.”
“The reason is the current CPAP masks are vented to allow some air leak. We call such leak: intentional leak and its purpose is to prevent the patient from re-breathing his/her own carbon dioxide, which can sometimes be dangerous,” Al Ashry wrote in an email.”
https://manchester.inklink.news/sleep-apnea-patients-may-need-new-plan-during-pandemic/
Seems like more nonsense – but I’m not qualified to speak really.
If you are trying to convince us viruses do exist then why not include the work of people such as mark bailey or the Perth group. I think you glanced at the history rather than reading the methodology of these foundational virology papers.
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Have you read Virus Mania, Malcolm? https://www.amazon.com/Virus-Mania-COVID-19-Hepatitis-Billion-Dollar/dp/3752629789
It’s interesting that many of the Substack writers are frothing quite a lot about this subject: those I’ve read are on the THERE IS NO COVID side, angrily. Dunno why the anger.
Is there nothing more to write on cholesterol ? Unhappily, for every person like me who has been totally convinced by Malcolm’s work on it and cannot ever, EVER believe in statins, there are myriad believing in everything their locked-in-the-past GPs tell ’em. And it’s not a kind (or even sensible) thing to try to dissuade ordinary folk from believing in their medicos …
“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know”.
– Michael Crichton, “Why Speculate?” http://larvatus.com/michael-crichton-why-speculate/
Umm, we need a new word to differentiate “conspiracy theories” based on the assumption that some group has conspired to either hide a truth or spread a lie from “conspiracy theories” that reflect a lack of knowledge and/or thought – so I asked perplexity.ai to provide one:
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Can you suggest a word derived from latin but for use in english meaning a conspiracy theory adopted by very stupid people who deny well established, apolitical, science?
Answer
A fitting word for this concept could be “stultumentia” (pronounced stul-tuh-MEN-shuh).
This neologism is derived from Latin roots:
“stultus” meaning foolish, stupid, or silly
“-mentia” from “mens” meaning mind, understanding, or intellect (as in “dementia”)
So “stultumentia” would literally translate to “foolish mind” or “stupid thinking,” aptly describing the adoption of conspiracy theories that contradict well established scientific facts by people who lack critical thinking skills.
This term combines the connotation of willful ignorance with a clinical-sounding suffix, giving it a pseudo-scientific air that ironically mirrors the way conspiracy theorists often present their unfounded beliefs.
Using it in a sentence: “The persistent belief in a flat Earth despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary is a classic example of stultumentia.”
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Or,
The persistent belief viruses don’t exist despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary is a classic example of stultumentia.”
In a dissimilar vein.. you may want to consider another new word: “Cascadion”
I am a civilian. – With you totally on Statins. ( 75 year old and Tri/HDl ok Total ‘High’ etc.). This really is a surprise, you say at best this is NATURAL or managed GOF Bioweapons?
Give us an insight on Contagion? Every other ‘outbreak’ in my life – there is a lot of of it going about’ Everyone was off work . None in Covid. Worked in in Hospital Mortuary in 68/9 – Only old people dead – as per 2020 – I suppose that will be ‘novel’ virus?
I Live in a place of elderly folks – No Covid, No Hospital, No deaths over last 5 years.. I shopped for my WFH home kids, with NO mask – no problem.
Why did no one find ‘ black things’ everywhere as in the Adverts – TfL – Trains eg.
Why was there some much fuckery in Health Advice? masks, stand up , sit down – ‘Novel’ I guess?
I suppose you say we should have had 9 vaccines to protect us as well.??
Why so late in the day?
I am totally be
mused
As Tom Naughton used to advise us,
“Follow the money”.
https://www.fathead-movie.com/
Dear Dr Kendrick, regarding your children, (and all people who experienced weird things on the smelling / tasting),
Do you recall if the anosmia (or alike) began after any swabbing? I mean, have you met someone who lost olfactory sense without ever being swabbed?
I have suffered through two swabbings and both left the taste of my blood for the rest of the day (never in my life did I need a swabbing through my nose to diagnose a disease). Both swabs were requested before and after an international travel. Second swab produced “positive for virus” and lost sense of smell the very night of my swabbing.
I have not found any paper discussing side effects of swabbing through the nose (besides that picture of a girl bleeding) but I have also yet to meet someone who lost smell without the swabbing. There was this paper on 85 autopsies performed in Belgium where they found virus in 30 person’s respiratory mucosa. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867421012824)
(Correct me if wrong, we are supposed to sense those 5 basic tastes Dr Kendrick said, and require our olfactory abilities to actually enjoy the whole world).
All loss of smell events described, that were with close friends and family, occurred well before swabbing started. These were March 2020. They occurred before anyone even mentioned it might be symptom. I must repeat that they represented something I had never, ever, seen before. In forty years of practicing medicine.
Another corroboration of the loss of taste and smell with a cold, from Leo Tolstoy in War and Peace. And then he has Napoleon explain almost perfectly how physiology and disease work and why medicine doesn’t(!).
Dear Horius,
I get that, as of 2020, a cold would also include loss of smell and all things would taste bland during the episode. However, and I previously thought of aromatherapy as something fraudulent, my lost persisted up to today (4 years afterwards). And it is not a lost of my ability to smell but the fond connections of odors and feelings: I can no longer recall my child house or my mother when I know I am in the presence of odors that previously transported my soul. I can also eat liver now. I can walk by foul odors as the trash truck and feel nothing of it although I know it is bad odor.
I do not know if I can explain it.
Also, Dr Kendrick,
I think that your constant mention of China does not take into account that study about a lung cancer protocol published in Italy where they recorded patients with the new virus as early as September, 2019. (https://doi.org/10.1177/0300891620974755)
Thank you very much to all for the engagement.
I first came across the assertion that viruses have never been proven to exist, let alone be a cause of disease, nearly 30 years ago. At the time I lacked the time and motivation to investigate this further, so I dismissed it as a fringe belief. It was only back in March 2020 that I was able to get to grips with the arguments made to support this position, thanks to the work of Cowan, Kaufman, the Baileys et (many) al., who have been able to clearly explain the seemingly impenetrably complex topic of viral theory in a manner which ordinary people such as myself can understand. It’s still not been an easy ride, but I am now firmly of the opinion that virology is a pseudoscience which persists only by virtue of it being a multi-billion global industry and because the belief in the germ theory of disease has become so imbedded in our societies that it will require nothing short of a massive paradigm shift in order for alternative explanations for disease to be properly and scientifically investigated.
It has been interesting to observe how some of the people I follow and greatly admire are very resistant to the suggestion that virology could be a failed hypothesis. I have had to formulate some speculative explanations as to why this could be so. These include that perhaps some people lack the humility to consider that something they have held to be self-evident for all their life could possibly be wrong. Or maybe it is an unwillingness to consider that so many people working within a so-called, scientific discipline, could possibly have unwittingly abandoned the scientific method in order to assert a wholly incorrect explanation for disease. Many are unable to grasp that epidemiological observations and anecdotal stories are not proof of a physical contagious particle and to insist that they are is the logical fallacy of begging the question. For those with a large following I can understand that this unwillingness to consider a change of position may stem from a fear of ridicule and loss of respect from much of their readership. In some cases, I can see a clear vested interest, for example, when someone is selling a product which claims to ‘combat viral infection’. Others appear to have adopted a mindset that the ‘no-virus’ position is either a deliberate psyop or an unwitting distraction from all the ‘good work’ being done by the ‘proper’ sceptics. Then there is the shadowy world of deliberate disinfo. agents and useful idiots to consider.
I have no idea if any of the above explanations apply to you. However, on this subject it is my opinion that you have backed the wrong horse.
To quote Dr Mark Bailey: “The citation of indirect observations such as clinical conditions, apparent clusters of illness, antibody assays, genomics, proteomics and tests such as the polymerase chain reaction cannot stand as evidence of viruses because the claimant is starting within a loop of circular reasoning in which
they have already assumed virus existence. None of these observations can possibly provide the required evidence to verify the virus model. The original sin involved the reification fallacy. Unfortunately for humanity, the virologists’ imaginings about their particles spread to enough minds to bring the world to its knees in 2020.* A petard has been created but who will it ultimately hoist?”
Virology’s Event Horizon
Trying to persuade a skeptic that viruses exist is like trying to persuade a blind man that the moon exists… very difficult. Where do you even start?
I have no doubts. For instance, how do you explain that the Covid “thing” seemed to have a genome that mutated in ways consistent with evolutionary theory, as tested by different laboratories all over the world. That severely limits any non-virus explanations that don’t require a genome.
Ultimately, one will have to go the Sherlock Holmes route. “When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
This could be done using germ-free mice. They are born free of germs and live in sterile containers. If you subject them to what you believe to be a virus and they develop symptoms, it can only be the virus that is responsible. But I guess most scientists would consider the experiment a waste of time since they know that viruses exist. Maybe a skeptical oligarch can be persuaded to fund the experiment.
https://irp.nih.gov/catalyst/19/4/germ-free-mice
Not sure that ‘consistent with evolutionary theory’ is entirely correct, certainly not with the preponderance of ‘human’ genome type codons in the virus and with the emails that show discussions involving Baric when the ‘invisibility’ of the joins where inserts to the ‘spike’ protein had been inserted will make it impossible to see those joins – as Eric Morecambe once said of Ernie’s wig.
The original Wuhan virus might have been artificially created, but once let loose it proceeded to mutate in familiar ways. I’m thinking particularly of the Delta variant which persisted for along time and every new variant’s evolution could be traced back to the original Delta.
I’m aware that the Omicron variant’s origin is something of a mystery. It didn’t split off from the Delta as one might have expected. It was first identified by South African scientists from samples taken from two people who arrived in Botswana from an undisclosed location (my guess: China). Apparently it had also arrived in Europe by this time but had not yet been identified.
If ‘viruses’ had remained invisible, it perhaps could have remained a plausible hypothesis for the cause of disease and doctors could have continued to use the line; “it’s probably a virus” when faced with a patient showing symptoms they could not explain. However, a major crack in the façade of virology became apparent when it was claimed that ‘viruses’ could be visualised using electron microscopy. Because if you are going to make the claim that an effect (disease) is being caused by a physical particle, there is an established, logical method for testing that claim, i.e. the Scientific Method.
However, it becomes abundantly clear to anyone who takes sufficient time to look in detail, that virologists have never used the Scientific Method to test the hypothesis that these sub-microscopic particles are the cause of disease. Instead they have developed a series of pseudoscientific methodologies to try and bolster their assertions about ‘pathogenic viruses’ and added to this many layers of speculation from a world of pure imagination. It’s an absolute masterclass in the power of Groupthink since the vast majority of those working in this field are not doing this deliberately or maliciously, rather they have become completely lost in a fantasy science-fiction world of their own making and will defend their methods with a passion. This is completely understandable when their careers and reputations likely depend on it. It is also completely understandable that most people will have a very hard time wrapping their head around this monumental failure in ‘science’; that so many could have been so wrong for so long. But, as Sherlock Holmes says…
The ‘genomes’ generated within computer programmes are simply models of a hypothetical entity since no ‘virus’ has ever been actually isolated (i.e. purified) in order to determine its genetic composition. Try and find how they determined the original template for a particular ‘virus’ in order to model any future ‘viral genomes’. You will find it’s ‘turtles all the way down’.
You have briefly suggested an experiment which you believe could prove to sceptics that ‘viruses’ are the cause of disease. However, you then state that scientists would not be interested in doing this because “they know that viruses exist”. This is clearly an appeal to authority logical fallacy. How do they know that viruses exist?
Thank you Lynn. If I could I would give your comment more than one like and 100 likes to the quote from Mark Bailey.
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”–Mahatma Gandhi
Mark Bailey wrote <i>”…one of the pivotal issues with virology was that it invented itself as a field before establishing if viruses actually existed. It has been trying to justify itself since its inception: In this instance, a virus particle was not observed first and subsequently viral theory and pathology developed.”</i>
That puts virology in the same class as atomic theory. Atoms and subatomic particles were all first imagined in theory to explain observed effects, but atoms were never directly observed. Nonetheless, few people doubt their existence today. Too many experiments have been done which confirm that atoms exist and behave the way theory says they aught to behave.
To sum up, I don’t think this particular objection Mark Bailey makes against virology has any merit.
Of course it could be argued that all the ‘observations’ of the existence of sub-atomic particles are in fact the observations of the creation of these particles through experiments, that these particles don’t actually exist, in Nature.
Actually I am aware that there are an increasing number of people questioning the validity of atomic theory but this is not something I have personally investigated.
Nevertheless, your comparison is invalid because unlike ‘atoms’, virologists have claimed that ‘viruses’ can be seen using electron microscopy (see my reply to your previous comment).
Malcolm– Somewhere in the comments section you mention that you read “Dissolving Illusions.” One of the co-authors, Roman Bystrianyk was interviewed by Dr. Sam Bailey. In regard to germ theory, viruses and contagion, he must think there are some more illusions to dissolve.
https://drsambailey.com/resources/videos/interviews/decade-of-dissolving-illusions-with-roman-bystrianyk/
Have you read Mark Bailey’s, Ä Farewell to Virology?” Many of us would love to know your criticisms and analysis of this work.
I might also add that you don’t necessarily need an advanced degree in chemistry, medicine or virology to understand a subject. Science is not always as complex as we are led to believe. Often times it’s couched in a lot of gibberish sounding jargon, as you very well know. If it were the case that science and medicine were beyond the reach of the lay person, many of us reading this blog would still be taking fistfuls of statin drugs.
https://drsambailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/A-FAREWELL-TO-VIROLOGY-Expert-Edition-V1.2.pdf
At 11 minutes on attached Dr Gerry Waters alleges that ther was no extra activity in his clinic at the time of the “outbreak”. He is/was however a believer in the virus. At 12 minutes he refers to the “whole covid thing as a hoax” . Pathogenicity too, he says was a hoax.
He notes subsequently that those dying in Italy were dying at an age that coincided with that country’s average age of death.
Maybe that’s why he was suspended by the irish medical council.
Cannot find his comment that loss of smell & taste was common with the flu & such respiratory conditions.
https://rumble.com/v2axll2-dr.-gerry-waters-on-the-richie-allen-show-20th-february-2023.html
Hello Dr Kendrick,
Thank you so much. This is the first time I have seen someone break it down in such an elementary way for the layman !!!!!!
You are a brave truth seeker. The damage wrought by Covid is unquestionable, putting aside comorbidities, intentional manslaughter and all that the jabs brought.
I look forward to your next instalment.
Warm regards
Cecile
“global demand for equipment soared in March 2020.”
Remarkable because by late Feb 2020 the Diamond Process had taught anyone intelligent enough to notice that the disease killed only the old and ill: the crew, younger and healthy enough to work for a living, suffered no deaths.
By that same time the figures from Lombardy and Spain must have made it clear that infants, children, and the young were effectively invulnerable unless terribly ill with something else.
So by end Feb 2020 the panic should have been stopped simply by governments explaining these elementary facts to the people.
But the swine didn’t. I believe this calls for fierce punishments so that next time the balance of incentives is different.
Should the hangings be public? Opinions might legitimately differ.
Totally agree that there was a new illness, but not convinced that it was caused by a contagious virus. Since the whole thing was planned, a contagious virus might have got out of their control. More likely to be some kind of poisoning.
We were basically told it was planned from that weird Event 101 “exercise” in 2019 when they gamed exactly the story that was later to happen. Also the global coordination, the rapid money making schemes, the infeasibly quick development and distribution of “vaccines”.
In April 2020 some naughty virus sceptics said that the particles that are seen through electron microscopes that we call virus particles may actually be bits of the dying material breaking off or something. Above my pay-grade to know
What is Covid, what is Flu ?
My understanding is that Covid is just a ‘family’ name for a group of virus’s and that ‘common’ Flu is part of that family. C19 is apparently a new strain of Covid, however, my understanding is that Flu mutates and changes every year, so every Flu outbreak is a new strain of Covid ? But, C19 impacted the respiratory system more so was a new strain of Covid ! Also, when C19 was running rampant, Flu dissappeared !!
Spanish Flu [1918-20], which was American not Spanish, was a new strain of Covid (?) and caused at least 50 million deaths attacking the respiratory system.
Can we, technically, call C19 a new strain of Flu ? If we can, then would a severe Flu outbreak have caused as much panic as something with a new name like Covid ?
I have no medical qualifications but I’m still inclined to think that the Covid story we were fed was just a PR exercise to scare and control the masses. Yes, people died, mainly the old and sick, but the true numbers will never be known because we know that the state hid, massaged and made up the numbers to support the official narrative – and no-one does that unless they have something to hide.
Influenza viruses are not a Coronavirus. Sars-Cov-2 is a coronavirus.
Yes. But the images of the Virus look the same (to me), and the symptoms are essentially identical.
Apart from the name, and TPTB stating they’re different, what is the differentiating factor(s) ?
Thank you so much, I don’t know much about microbiology or LDL cholesterol but I always read every sing
Malcolm,
Thank you for moving onto the linked questions of whether the COVID virus existed, and whether viruses as a class of entities exist.
I have entertained both hypotheses to some extent, and still do.
I’ll devote this response to the question as to whether viruses of any type exist.
Sam and Mark Bailey (no relation of mine) popularised the theory that viruses do not exist. Ideally it would be nice to read a debate between you and them.
One of the issues that intrigued me was the extreme difficulty of isolating pure virus particles. If they are real, they nust arise in a culture containing other cells and it is very hard to purify viruses completely. One problem is that electron microscopes destroy the samples that are presented. This means that if you see a particle with an interesting shape, you can’t determine whether it is infectious.
Isolation is also complicated by the fact that cells can emit exosomes – particularly when under stress – and these look very much like viruses but aren’t! If these pop up in electron microscope pictures they could be taken for actual viruses.
The Baileys have discussed a number of viruses including TMV, Rabies, and polio. They do provide alternative explanations explanations for the symptoms and the clustering of cases.
In the case of polio they point out that there is a disease in the US which is similar but not polio (and I assume it is not infective): Acute Flaccid Myelitis. They also point out that at the time of the worst outbreaks lead arsenate (yes, a compound of lead and arsenic!) was used to protect crops, and this would attack people who were accidentally exposed to this poison. As you know, I had polio that has left me with a limp, but at that time I lived in a house that adjoined onto a cornfield. I will never know if I was actually poisoned by lead arsenate!
More generally, since science has become so insanely competative, there are lots of cases of research being retracted or being proved to have resulted from fraud.
https://retractionwatch.com/
While in many cases these just waste a lot of research resources, I guess it is possible that occasionally a totally false concept enters the literature and cannot be removed!
“I ask this question because a number of people have claimed the entire Covid pandemic was a made-up event. A ‘plandemic’ If you like.”
There is ,also another definition:
“A deliberately planned pandemic, typically supposed as part of a conspiracy theory“
I am a conspiracy theorist by no means, but I can’t let go of the eery feeling the virus was deliberately released. And with it comes the question whether the virus was “engineered” or manipulated as you want.
Early on in the pandemic I saw a Taiwanese source citing a Taiwanese professor, claiming that the virus was not “natural”. Later that information was taken offline and it was claimed that the source was forced to do so under pressure by China.
It would be interesting to hear your thoughts about this possibility.
Completely impossible or unthinkable it is not: With billions of money involved, first and foremost by the pharmaceutical industry but also in other domains, a motive can be found quickly.
What also surprised me a little with Covid: I know old people are more susceptible to (infectious) diseases of course, but to this degree? Have we ever seen that before? Or… if the virus was designed, could it have been designed in a way it would hit especially old people?
Of course, with influenza old people belong to the highest risk category too, but if I recall well what I know about the Spanish Flue pandemic, also a lot of younger people were hit.
The problem is the subject is very complex science, so it maybe not too hard to understand the facts, but it is very hard to understand the evidence and how it has been proven. Love to know how we know that viruses can get into cells – for example SARS_COV-2 uses the ACE2 receptors? how do we know? Has a mistake been made with any of this? I have not got a clue! (same with other technical subject like chlorophyll for instance – it took over 150 years to fully describe the chlorophylls after it had been named, but as a lay -person can I understand the evidence- not without a lot of working and study and probably expense as some of the papers are behind paywalls, the need for a laboratory etc etc )
Not buying it. At age 75 and no vaccinations in at least the last 50 years, why am I still alive? Why am I healthy? All those trillions of CoV-2 things fitting in a coke can? If they are spread out all over the earth, how could you catch one to see it? If they are truly that small, I still doubt those pics of viruses are real.
No explanation why viruses come and go. Why they seem to be much less in the warmer months. No explanation as to how they travel around the globe. No explanation how they are formed. We are told there are millions of kinds of viruses and you would think at some point the body would be overwhelmed…it does have limits.
Why does the CDC not have any covid samples? Why does no one have any covid samples? Seems like with all these virus possibilities that there would be some so deadly that they would take out humans. There are far too many unanswered questions for me to believe in viruses.
We have the fake science of cholesterol causing heart attacks, to much stomach acid causing acid reflux, chemical imbalances causing mental difficulties, and I don’t know how many other fantasies dreamed up that are lies. So why not virology?
Why are you still alive? What kind of question is that? I’m almost 80, I’ve had 2 1/2 heart attacks, my thyroid is buggered as is my back and I caught C-19 and I survived and I haven’t been jabbed. Why am I still alive? Well, a good immune system that I look after by eating healthily plus key vitamins and minerals and no doubt my mum’s excellent Russian/Jewish genes.
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Fantastic article. It has bothered me for quite a long time – without any scientific understanding it seemed to me that of course the Covid virus existed, of course it was a new variant (like the annual flu) and of course the governments around the world turned it into a pandemic. Covid was one thing but the crisis was created by governments’ reactions to it.
Thanks, Malcolm, for that convincing explanation. You will lose a few fans, so it was brave of you.
Holy cow ! When I read your title , for a minute I thought you had fallen to the conspiracy.
Another fascinating talk on the subject by a former US military doctor:
https://rumble.com/v6q64f6-dr.-lee-merritt-exposes-the-truth-they-dont-want-you-to-know.html
so can it be said that you believe in the germ theory of disease but the terrain theory of heart disease?
I believe that germs exist. Bacteria, fungi, viruses etc. However, I also believe that the terrain is critical. I was reading dissolving illusions last year (a critique of vaccination), and was struck, once more, by how horrible living conditions were in the era where infectious diseases killed so very many. No sunlight, poor nutrition, lack of essential vitamins and nutrients, exposure to mass pathogens on a daily basis. Once these things were sorted out, most of the major diseases effectively almost disappeared. Cholera, TB the plague, typhus, measles, smallpox etc. well before any vaccination appeared. A healthy human can survive almost all forms of infection.
Absolutely Dr Kendrick! Hasn’t this been at the heart of the situation, that good nutrition, a clean and healthy living conditions, a safe and healthy working environment, have been the major contribution to health, that drugs have played a minuscule role in improving human health. If this is what terrain theory means, then I support it too.
While I can fully agree with you that living conditions are of the utmost importance, I cannot agree with what you seem to suggest: That improved living conditions made most of the major diseases go away.
The last biggest outbreak of the plague in Western Europe was in 1720 in Marseille. By then living conditions had not yet improved for the general population.
TB is closely monitored in developped countries and could become devastating again without monitoring and multidrug resistance.
Maybe it was different in the UK, but when I was a kid in the seventies, before vaccination, almost everyone got measles. Yes, in good living conditions and with hospitals available for kids who need it, it is far from being as deadly (roughly 1 in 10.000 in The Netherlands) as they want us to believe, but measles did not disappear without vaccination.
Of course HIV is another example.
You did not mention polio.
I should have been more accurate. Cholera and typhoid etc. certainly went away with improved water quality, better hygiene etc etc. Measles and mumps etc. did not. However, the impact of these infections was vastly reduced. With measles, the death rate had fallen by, something in the region of, 98% by the time vaccines arrived. In some epidemics, in the past, measles had a mortality rate close to that of smallpox. Same for whooping cough. At one point it killed very many. By the time vaccines arrived, the mortality rate had fallen dramatically.
I did not mention polio because this disease is very difficult to get a handle on. Very difficult indeed.
A mortality of 2% in the case of measles would still be shocking: In 1960 there were 918,286 live births in the UK. If 90 % of them got measles, and 2% died, that would mean 16,529 deaths for that birth cohort only. Worldwide we would be speaking about huge numbers.
However, this link, showing measle cases and deaths in England and Wales from 1940 to 2023 is interesting:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/measles-deaths-by-age-group-from-1980-to-2013-ons-data/measles-notifications-and-deaths-in-england-and-wales-1940-to-2013#:~:text=There%20were%2011%20deaths%20reported,the%20MMR%20vaccine%20was%20received.
Unless I missed something, mortality already was even much lower than 2% before vaccination, even if we assume that the numbers are not 100% accurate.
I know nothing about the vaccination rates in the UK but what really surprises me is that there is a very sharp drop in measles notifications after 1988.
From The Netherlands:
“In the prevaccination era, the contribution to mortality burden was fairly constant for diphtheria (1·4%), pertussis (3·8%), and tetanus (0·1%). Around the start of mass vaccinations, these contributions to the mortality burden decreased rapidly to near zero. We noted similar patterns for poliomyelitis, mumps, and rubella. The number of deaths due to measles around the start of vaccination in the Netherlands were too few to detect an accelerated rate of decrease after mass vaccinations were started. We estimate that mass vaccination programmes averted 148 000 years of life lost up to age 20 years (95% prediction interval 110 000–201 000) among children born before 1992. This corresponds to about 9000 deaths averted (6000–12 000).”
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(16)00027-X/abstract
Our combined vaccination programme started in 1962. That makes 300 deaths averted yearly. Not unsignificant and that is without the wider disease burden of course but much less impressive than we are made to believe, I think.
But we should not minimalize the importance of vaccines, also in animals: Rabies is another good example.
You might wish to consider this link.
https://turfseer.substack.com/p/tineline-of-the-great-polio-hoax?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1139891&post_id=159089099&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1olzph&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Pardon me…I haven’t been following the discussion closely…but can we not see a virus under a microscope of any kind?
You are welcome Nick. We are told that viruses are seen under an electron rather than optical microscope. I understand this involves taking material from a diseased body and doing something to it to enable it to be viewed. This of course is not viewing it in action in the body concerned.
We are shown images which can be rather fuzzy black and white or enhanced colour. What we get presented in the mass media is quite distorted and alien looking.
I say that it is not that viruses don’t exist per se, that is I have no reason to doubt we are being shown something that exists, but there alleged disease causing nature is incorrect.
I consider we are shown essentially cellular debris from the breakdown of cells, part of the on-going metabolism in our bodies. As waste material it must be disposed of but arises out of disease etc. and is not the cause.
In which case infectious diseases is a misnomer. They are after all based on symptoms so there is a state of disease rather than a series of infectious diseases, the latter rather conveniently giving big pharma an excuse to make something toxic to supposedly ‘cure’ them.
SO SIMPLE – BAD CHOLESTEROL (POSSIBLY EVIL CHOLESTEROL. Bush’s war on TERROR, as made up, COMES TO MIND.)
Came across the following which caused to me smile – given what I hav learned over the last 10 years – “
“There are two types: high-density lipoprotein (HDL) and low-density lipoprotein (LDL). As a general rule, HDL is considered “good” cholesterol, while LDL is considered “bad.” This is because HDL carries cholesterol to your liver, where it can be removed from your bloodstream before it builds up in your arteries. LDL, on the other hand, takes cholesterol directly to your arteries. This can result in atherosclerosis, a plaque buildup that can even cause heart attack and stroke.”
and just to finish off
Triglycerides make up the third component of cholesterol and act as unused calories that are stored as fat in the blood. Eating more calories than you burn can cause triglycerides to build up in the bloodstream, increasing your risk for heart attacks.”
From keck medicine “https://www.keckmedicine.org/blog/what-is-the-difference-between-good-and-bad-cholesterol/
who or what the heck is keck ?
Regarding phages, I have read the Lanka article and watched the Cowan video linked above, both of which purport to prove that phages are merely bacterial fragments and not independent organisms.
Lanka’s article, published in his own magazine, contains no references regarding phages, but merely asserts things in such a vague way it is difficult to know what he is saying, for instance “Before it could be established that the “bacterial viruses” [old name for phages] cannot kill natural bacteria, but they are instead helping them to live and that bacteria themselves emerge from such structures” I think he is talking of spores. About 5% of bacteria can form spores. In harsh conditions the bacterium can copy its genetic material and enclose it in a tough shell while the rest of the bacterium dies off. When conditions are favorable it can reconstitute into a bacterium again. When he says “almost non-viable bacteria can be made to turn into phages” I have to say, where’s the proof? AFAIK that is impossible.
Cowan at least quotes a scientific paper. It is by Twort who claims to have discovered phages but speculates that they may just be bacterial fragments. But this was in 1936! Things have moved on since then, and the mythical phages have become important tools in genetic engineering. To quote DeepSeek’s answer to the question, Do virologists use phages to modify the DNA of bacteria? “Yes. In summary, phages are a versatile tool for modifying bacterial DNA, and their use is a key technique in microbiology, genetic engineering, and biotechnology.”
Finally, there’s the evidence of your own eyes. “With the aid of a microscope, scientists can watch the phage infection process in action.” This from a very clear explanation of phages — https://innovativegenomics.org/crisprpedia/crispr-in-nature/
“Finally, there’s the evidence of your own eyes.”
The article you linked to contains no actual images, just illustrations. Furthermore, my understanding is that ‘bacteriophages’ are too small to be viewed with a light microscope and therefore any images of them will have been produced using electron microscopy. Aside from the fact that the intense processing involved in EM makes it highly unlikely that anything visualised in this way will accurately reflect something which actually happens in real life as anything viewed in this way will be lifeless. This means that all the assumptions made about ‘bacteriophages’ and other submicroscopic particles has been done from still images and is pure conjecture.
Thanks for taking the time to read the Stefan Lanka article andto hear what Tom Cowan has to say however.
Phages would of course be invisible in a light microscope. I imagine the experiment would be something like A) observe bacterium in a sterile solution; B) add phage-containing solution; C) observe reaction of bacterium; D) draw your own conclusions.
The following experiment would very nearly prove Koch’s postulates:
A) observe bacterium in a sterile solution; B) add phage-containing solution; C) observe reaction of bacterium;
I imagine a bacterium being attacked by phages would exhibit signs of distress.
D) remove bacterium from contaminated solution and rinse in sterile solution; E) add bacterium to a second sterile solution containing a healthy bacterium; F) observe both bacteria.
I imagine the first bacterium would split open and collapse like a punctured balloon. Shortly, the second bacterium would exhibit signs of distress. This would prove that whatever attacked the second bacterium originated from within the first bacterium, thus demonstrating some of the claimed properties of phages; namely, that they multiply within the host bacteria, thus further constraining any non-phage explanation.
Your comments here are a perfect demonstration of why virology has been able to remain such a prevalent narrative for decades despite its flagrant disregard of the Scientific Method. It remains propped up by the collective belief of the many who have simply defaulted to the position of ‘trust the experts’ without holding those so-called ‘experts’ to account and ensuring that their claims are supported by actual Science.
Look at how many times you have written “I imagine”!
What you are doing here is describing a logical approach to proving a cause and effect phenomenon but without checking that this is what is actually taking place in the experiments which virologists have performed and which they have then used to make the claim that ‘cytopathic effect’ is ‘proof of virus’.
In your hypothetical experiment, please can you describe how you would ensure that the “phage-containing solution” either contained pure ‘phages’, or how you would ensure that nothing else present in the solution could cause the subsequent effect on the sample of bacteria.
I have to write “I imagine” because I’ve not done the experiment nor seen it done, but I gather (making another assumption) from paging through a basic virology textbook that this experiment is done by virology students.
They use bacteria and phages rather than cells and viruses because you can see results on bacteria within minutes whereas the effect on cells takes hours and you have the difficulty that cells have to be kept alive in a nutrient solution which makes purification difficult.
Purification is as described by Stefan Lanka: filter the solution to remove larger debris, then centrifuge in a graded density medium so remaining material sorts into bands of similar molecular weight, and select the band of interest with a pipette.
It’s not perfect but it’s the best one can do with current technology.
“very nearly” Same old, same old…
Watch this testimony Mar 6, 2025
https://rumble.com/v6qa1n2-dr-david-martin-3625-rebroadcast-from-national-citizens-inquiry-edmonton-20.html
@Dr Malcolm Kendrick
I am replying to your comment as above as there is no Reply option below the comment. You wrote:
“I have studied this area for a long time. One fact that convinced me, more than any other, about viruses – their existence, or not (particularly with HIV and AIDS) was the fact that children with hemophilia, in the UK, who received factor VIII ended up suffering from both HIV and hepatitis C, as it had not been screened for in the serum they received. Many have since died.
So, you could say that in one, rather terrible way, significant parts of Koch’s postulates were proven. People infected with AIDS and/or Hep C donated blood, which was not screened, before being given to children with hemophilia.
The viruses then infected these children. They then displayed the classical symptoms of the infections and many of them died. Not quite as drastic as deliberately infecting people with Ebola, but the results were, I believe, inarguable.”
The undeniably tragic outcome for the children given factor VIII does not prove the existence of ‘HIV’ or in any way fulfil Koch’s postulates. Because the crucial part of Koch’s logical proposal to prove a cause and effect relationship, is that the alleged ‘pathogen’ MUST be isolated.
The problem with virology is that it is entirely based on an unproven assumption since no ‘viral’ particle has ever been isolated/purified in order to both attempt to prove the pathogenicity of that particle or in order to determine it’s composition. Instead virologists have ignored this essential step and have moved straight into indirect testing methods. The problem is these ‘tests’ have never been validated but instead have become the perfect tool to create the illusion of epidemics/pandemics.
The reason I knew immediately that ‘Covid-19’ was a pseudo-pandemic was because it followed exactly the same blueprint as the pseudo-epidemic of ‘AIDS’
There was never any proof of ‘HIV’ or ‘Hepatitis C’ in the blood products these children received. Instead, they were given a diagnosis based entirely on a faulty test. Inevitably for many of them this would have resulted in a intensive regime of medication, the side-effects of which are known to cause many of the so-called ‘AIDS defining’ illnesses.
For anyone wishing to learn more about the misconceptions around ‘HIV/AIDS’ I would highly recommend watching the documentary ‘House of Numbers’:
(476) “House of Numbers: The Anatomy of an Epidemic [HIV/AIDS]” – Full Documentary (2009) ⚕️ – YouTube
The extended interviews are also extremely enlightening:
(476) houseofnumbers – YouTube
Dr Sam Bailey’s three part series based on the work of the Perth Group is also a must see:
The Yin & Yang of HIV – Part One – Dr Sam Bailey
The Yin and Yang of HIV – Part Two – Dr Sam Bailey
The Yin & Yang of HIV – Part Three – Dr Sam Bailey
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You keep referring to Koch’s postulates.
They were formulated in 1890. You should update your library. Here, from 1937:
Click to access jbacter00773-0005.pdf
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“The reason I knew immediately that ‘Covid-19’ was a pseudo-pandemic”
You don’t know this, you *believe* this, that’s something quite different.
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“the pseudo-epidemic of ‘AIDS” and “There was never any proof of ‘HIV’ or ‘Hepatitis C’ in the blood products these children received.”
You spread disinformation: There probably were some misdiagnosis at the start of the HIV crisis as diagnostic tests were not yet as good as they know are but nowadays “”The false-positive rates of both the third and fourth generations are very low. Data show a false positive rate of third-generation testing (with confirmatory western blot) to be as low as 0.0004% to 0.0007%.” ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK482145/ )
Moreover, nowadays we also have DNA and RNA HIV tests searching for the virus itself directly.
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The documentary you recommend is mentioned in this Wikipedia article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Numbers:_Anatomy_of_an_Epidemic
Not to convince you but so everyone can judge for himself.
AIDS denialists have never ever come with a credible alternative hypothesis about AIDS, leave alone that they have come with solutions based on their alternative hypothesis and preventing that people get ill.
If you believe, for example, that ridiculous theory of theirs that AIDS is caused by drugs use, then again I want to ask you, if AIDS is not caused by a pathogen and you are that so sure of it: Why don’t you and your fellow conspiracy theorists get yourself injected with blood from HIV patients under controlled circumstances and make a nice documentary about it with updates every few years? Wouldn’t that be a superb idea to prove for once and forever that you are right and 99,99 % of the world is dumb and stupid?
“everyone must judge for himself”
That’s one thing we can agree upon.
I will answer your final question as I did before: Imagine that I said I would agree to your, somewhat macabre, experiment to be injected with ‘HIV’ or ‘Ebola’ to prove a point. How would you prove to me that what was in the injection was purely particles of ‘HIV’ or ‘Ebola’?
You keep asking for something that has little importance:
If you got an injection with “purely particles of ‘HIV’ or ‘Ebola’” you could still claim you getting sick was purely coincidental.
What matters much more is that nowadays we do know that HIV destroys the immune system and we know how it does so.
I was merely responding to your suggestion.
Maybe you could try watching this with an open mind:
Positively False – Birth of a Heresy – HIV AIDS
Exactly, I have also commented below.
The following https://mikestone.substack.com/p/virus-like-particles?publication_id=1054477&post_id=157622481&isFreemail=true&r=tb182&triedRedirect=true is a very good deep dive into the mysterious non-world of viruses. Viruses and their manipulated bits-and-bobs are but figments of virologists imagination. They are a something else other than what we are simplistically led to believe. Something else is afoot deep down in the residual ‘tea-leaves’. I have my own ideas as to what, but this Substack is well worth reading for all who are interested in the madness of SARS2/C-19 and other nefarious goings on.
For me, the issue is not so much whether viruses exist, but rather does the illness they purportedly cause justify a mass population vaccine response, restrictions, lockdowns etc.
What are your thoughts on this Malcolm?
Here are 17 reasons why it is important whether viruses exist.
https://planetwavesfm.substack.com/p/why-does-it-matter-whether-viruses
Thank you for your post. The issue with viruses is that they were redefined from a poison to a microscopic entity only visible to a select view with access to an electron microscope.
It is not that images of something do not exist but that the assumption that they are disease causing. They have after all been taken from a diseased body and had something done to the sample before being put under the microscope so the situation is artificial to start with.
The truth is that in 2020 they rebranded the ‘flu which is why ‘flu cases plummeted and COVID 19 soared.
Viruses arise from us (via us) as cellular debris needing disposal but are not per se disease causing. They are like household waste that must be removed lest it clog up the working of the home.
I am on WordPress as well as substack, my link explaining more.
another argument – on the matter
https://open.substack.com/pub/billricejr/p/the-no-virus-theory?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1raver
Dear Dr. Kendrick, this is the first of your articles I have read. Thank you for writing about this controversial topic. I think it is very good to be sceptical because it’s clear to me that throughout the ‘Corona false-flag terror attack’, as I like to call it, the general public were mightily deceived by government mis-information and effectively tricked into taking a toxic injection weapon which was certainly not a vaccine but was extremely deadly.
In your article I was most interested by what you said concerning your ‘front line experience’ of Covid and the shocking suddenness of the deaths of those patients. I myself would like to know more about the exact circumstances of how all those people really died. We heard about some of this during the the Scottish Covid inquiry and, hats off to Scotland for managing to organise the only official inquiry in any country which heard testimony from relatives of the dead about the dreadful treatments etc which the suspected Corona infected received in care homes etc.
Another, sceptic, the independent Canadian researcher Denis Rancourt whose work can be fount at denisrancourt(dot)ca , has analysed global government data of all cause excess mortality and come to the astonishing conclusion that there cannot have been any spreading deadly pathogen and so no pandemic. This is because of the fact that where deaths did occur they were large, sudden and unexpected (just as you observed) but additionally they were entirely confined to a very very few large cities. Elsewhere, nothing unusual happened. So he has stated quite clearly and very reasonably based on the data that there was no ‘pandemic’ but only deaths by treatment and by injection.
This of course is at odds with your own conclusion. But I note that you have not given any consideration as to why the ‘virus sceptics’ say there is no proof of existence. I have looked at their arguments and they appear to me to be science based and therefore reasonable criticism i.e. they point to a lack of evidence from virologists that the thing they claim to exist has been proven to be there because they never do any control experiments. Showing a single image of a ‘virus’ obtained by SEM imagery is no real proof of anything unless there is a control relating to that image. I hope you will be able to provide an article where you examine in detail point by point what exactly the ‘virus deniers’ are saying because they mention quite a lot about the missing control experiments and this is a vital aspect about how science must be done in order to be rigorous and believable.
Thanks again for the good work you are doing.
Here are lots of electron microscope photos and digital reconstructions of phages:
https://fineartamerica.com/art/photographs/t2+bacteriophage
Clearly these things exist and they attach to bacteria. Are they attacking a bacteria and making it sick, or are they attracted to a sick bacteria which has been sickened by some non-phage cause?
Until someone comes up with a better theory of what sickened the bacteria, most people would conclude it was the phage wot dun it.
That’s the problem with the “viruses don’t exist” crowd. They don’t have a better theory to explain the effects which are currently assumed to be caused by viruses and phages. And until they do, viruses will continue to be the villain of choice in the fight against infectious diseases.
Which is not to say that the massive focus on fighting viruses is entirely healthy. I believe far more effort should be put into boosting our natural defenses against viruses (said he, reaching for the Vitamin D3 bottle).
All we can say for certain is that these particles which have been called ‘bacteriophages’ are seen when electron microscopy is used. Digital reconstruction in this context = making up stories about something based on a still photograph. If I produced a photograph of you leaving a bank on the same day that the bank was robbed, does that prove you robbed the bank?
Plenty of things are known to harm or kill bacteria, chemicals and antibiotics for one thing. It is not possible to use EM to view anything living so it is impossible to know if what you are seeing with EM is representative of something that is taking place in a living organism.
You are making the logical fallacy of burden of proof reversal. There is no obligation for those sceptical of virology to present an alternative hypothesis on the cause of disease in order to demonstrate that virology fails to stand up to scrutiny. The case against virology is that pseudoscientific methods have been deployed in order to falsely assert the claim that ‘viruses’ have been proven to exist as pathogenic, self-replicating, transmissible particles. Imagine you were convicted of a crime you did not commit based on a misinterpretation of the available evidence and were then told that the only way you could prove your innocence was to produce the actual criminal.
If people wish to continue to believe in ‘viruses’ that is their prerogative, but personally I would rather say that currently we simply do not know the cause of disease in many cases, rather than continue to believe in something which has never been proven and has been falsified many times in various ‘contagion experiments’ over the past 100+ years.
Lynn– It is hard to fault your logic.
By now, most people have heard that Gene Hackman’s wife Betsy Arakawa died from hantavirus. However, like every other virus, hantavirus has never been proven to exist. Dr. Sam Bailey delves into ” hantavirus” in the video below.
https://drsambailey.com/resources/videos/viruses-unplugged/hollywoods-hantavirus/
Before considering whether covid was a planned pandemic or not, it needs to be established that viruses exist, be it the hantavirus or the covid virus. I have not seen that done here or anywhere else for that matter. It has yet to be shown that virology is a legitimate field of science that uses the scientific method. Establishing the existence of the covid virus has to be the starting point. If the virus doesn’t exist, then there there never was a pandemic in the first place.
Whether the covid era was a planned event, mass hysteria or both is another matter to look into.
I am strongly inclined to agree with Stefan Lanka, that virology is a misconception rather than a conscious fraud. I have no doubt that the vast majority of those working within this field and those who support it are absolutely sincere in their belief that virology is credible. That is one of the reasons it is so difficult to challenge – we are dealing with people who sincerely believe their own misconceptions.
I have absolutely no doubt that the covid event was planned (Event 201, SPARS, etc) What is more difficult to discern is how many, if any any of the orchestrators of these plans actually know that virology has no credibility but can be used as a very effective tool for population control due to the psychological manipulation around fear of a phantom enemy, or, whether it is simply a massive case of global Groupthink.
Do you believe there are any ‘infectious’ diseases. I am interested.
Do I think it has been proven that in the natural world an organism with symptoms of a disease can cause another organism to exhibit the same or similar disease symptoms due to a transfer of microscopic/submicroscopic particles? No
Do I think it is possible that there may be some not as yet understood mechanism where in some (likely rare) circumstances a disease process can be transferred from one organism to another? Maybe
Looking at this another way. Many of us will have observed anecdotally that yawning can appear to be contagious. Imagine I hypothesised that the reason for this could be because when someone yawns they emit submicroscopic particles which can sometimes infect another person causing them to yawn. I call these hypothetical particles ‘yawn bugs’. What experimental results would I need to produce in order to prove scientifically that ‘yawn bugs’ exist and are the cause of yawning?
Sorry to press, because I find this interesting. You do not believe that there are infectious agents, by which I mean microscopic agents that can cause disease? Or am I not understanding your position.
I do not believe in the dogma of a single cause of disease nor do I believe that there are infectious microscopic agents that can cause disease. When tissues are unhealthy, microbes will do what they do.
Once again, I refer you to the work of doctors Sam and Mark Bailey. Below I’ve linked a page of videos on germ theory. Under the topic of germ theory, Sam explores, syphilis, listeria, Lyme disease, anthrax, stomach ulcers, plague pertussis and more. She even has a video on germs and the Bible.
https://drsambailey.com/resources/videos/germ-theory/
I’d love to know your thoughts on the Bailey’s research including Ä Farewell to Virology,” and Mark’s article “Virologies Event Horizon”.
https://drsambailey.com/virologys-event-horizon/
https://drsambailey.com/a-farewell-to-virology-expert-edition/
I think the belief that disease is passed from one organism to another due to the transfer of either microscopic or sub microscopic particles is simply a very well established superstition.
There is simply no scientifically valid evidence to back up the suggestion that disease is ‘spread’ in this way.
A ‘pandemic’ that relies on the notion of a spreading pathogen is impossible.
I also agree with everything that Marjorie has already added above.
So Lynne, what are you saying? That illness, disease is what, self-generating, that the body produces its own disease via some unknown mechanism? How does that work? That disease is the result of some kind of error, akin to a mutation, like cancer?
None of us can be all-knowing. Thus it takes a bit of independent thinking and use of logic before we should embrace anything as true. So I ask, Dr. Kendrick, for the benefit of those of us not experts in virology, can you review and address the claims of the oft-referenced Dr. Samantha Bailey? I watched the video where she says Ebola is not caused by a virus, and the logic seems slipshod. Thanks
While germ theory was taking hold, Florence Nightingale, who is celebrated as the founder of modern nursing said…
“The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds. There are no specific diseases, there are specific disease conditions.
Is there such a thing as infectious disease? When it comes to flu and common cold, I suggest you read Can You Catch A Cold by Daniel Roytas and decide for yourself
Here is a quote from the back cover–
“The idea that the common cold and influenza are spread via coughing, sneezing and physical contact has been firmly implanted in our minds since childhood. However, the results of human experiments cast doubt on this theory. Researchers have failed to consistently demonstrate contagion by exposing healthy people directly to sick people or their bodily fluids.” These findings suggest that our understanding of infectious disease is incomplete and challenges the long- held belief that cold or flu can be caught.”
The book goes into the historical records and reviews more than 200 contagion studies with over1000 citations.
A quote from Dr. Mark Bailey on the back cover says, “The claim that colds and flu are contagious may be one of the greatest ever blunders of medical science.”
I suggest that you study the work of doctors Mark and Sam Bailey and perhaps start with this video in which Sam talks about contagion, the meaning of the word and its history. There are links in the video for further exploration.
https://drsambailey.com/resources/videos/germ-theory/the-truth-about-contagion/
A wise man once said to me, “A mind is the hardest thing to change.” That man was James B Yoseph, who with his wife Hannah Yoseph co-authored the book, “How Statin Drugs Really Lower Cholesterol And Kill You One Cell At A Time”.
I have changed my mind and come to believe that germ theory is no more valid than cholesterol theory. However, I do believe there is such a thing as contagion. Yawning is contagious. Smiles, laughter and good chair are also contagious.
@barovsky
I am not making any claims about what could be the actual cause of disease. I am saying that virology and germ theory remain unscientific explanations for disease and have been falsified many times over the past 120+ years with many 100s of studies failing to demonstrate contagion or the existence of infectious particles.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32715618/
Dr. Kendrick, regarding your statement that there are lots of ACE2 receptors in the lungs. . .
Did I miss something? It appears from this study, almost zero receptors with ACE2 there.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32715618/
Hello Dr Kendrick. Please check this out. Basically this scientific paper shows that almost no ACE2 receptors exist in the lungs OR I missed something. That’s possible, I am a mechanical engineer, not a doctor. However, This is important, is it not?, to the discussion of the SARSCOV2 virus and respiratory transfection, right?