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way, scientists are discovering that all of these ous physical, biochemical and immunological One of the
“viruses” originate in our own tissues—they analyses. Nonetheless, researchers concluded injected
don’t attack us from the outside. that the coronavirus’s “intimately twisted genes
commandeer our biochemistry” and “throw monkeys got
CORONAVIRUS PROOF? wrenches into our cellular factories, while [other pneumonia,
With this background, let’s look in more viral proteins] build nurseries for making new the other
detail at the methods described in a 2003 study viruses.” This is highly imaginative horror-
titled, “Koch’s Postulates Fulfilled for SARS movie speculation, not science. got a rash,
Virus.” First, the researchers took unpurified and the
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sediment from the snot of sick people and grew TESTING PATHOGENESIS researchers
it in lung cancer cells until they got a sufficient Leaving aside the fact that virologists never
quantity of cellular material to work with. Next, actually isolate and purify viruses—which claimed
they centrifuged this mess—not even attempt- they openly admit and which we have now ex- this as the
ing to purify any virus from the mixture. Finally, plained—let’s assume that the unpurified fluid proof that a
they took this unholy mixture (of snot sediment, they use does contain the relevant virus and,
lung cancer cells and who-knows-what-else) therefore, should be able to transmit infection. “coronavirus”
and injected the cellular-debris-laden goop into After “isolating” a virus, virologists have three can cause
two unfortunate monkeys. There was no con- “hosts” they can use in their attempts to prove disease and
trol group (which could have been achieved by that viruses cause illness: they can expose hu-
injecting saline or lung cancer cells or even the mans to the virus; they can expose animals to that Koch’s
liquid from the centrifuged material into other the virus; or they can use tissue cultures taken postulates
monkeys for comparison). One of the injected from various animal or human sources and have been
monkeys got pneumonia, the other got a rash, expose the tissue cultures to the virus.
and the researchers claimed this as the proof In the history of virology, most virologists satisfied.
that a “coronavirus” can cause disease and that have decided not to do their experiments on
Koch’s postulates have been satisfied. human subjects, as this is considered unethical.
“The Coronavirus Unveiled,” an October 9 In the case of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, we know
article appearing in the New York Times, con- of no published study that has used humans as
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tinues to give the impression that researchers are the test subjects. Virologists also admit that in
working with a genuine isolated coronavirus, the case of most viral infections, there are no
despite telling readers that “In February, as the studies available proving infection in animals.
new coronavirus swept across China and shut How a virus can infect and kill humans—but not
down entire cities. . . the best pictures anyone animals—is left unexplained. Researchers get
had managed to take were low-resolution im- around this obvious biological conundrum by
ages, in which the virus looked like a barely saying, “There are no animal models on which
discernible smudge.” How did the researchers to test such-and-such a virus.” In other words,
isolate the virus? In the New York Times re- “We know that the virus infects and kills hu-
porter’s words, they “doused the viruses with mans even though we’ve never tested the virus
chemicals to render them harmless. . . .” In other on humans because that would be unethical.
words, they poisoned them. After they somehow Therefore, we do our tests on animals, even
“concentrated the virus-laden fluid from a quart though when we test animals, they don’t get
down to a single drop” and flash-froze the drop, sick, because they are not proper ‘hosts’ for the
they saw, under microscope, structures they virus. So, you’ll just have to trust us.”
called “viruses”—most likely helpful exosomes In the case of SARS-CoV-2, we know of
responding to the poisonous chemicals. two animal model studies that used unpurified
We reiterate that this is not the proper “virus,” one in hamsters and one in mice. In the
way to isolate and characterize a virus. Proper hamster study, researchers took the unpuri-
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isolation involves ultrafiltration and centrifug- fied, lung-cancer-grown, centrifuged animal
ing—not dousing with chemicals and flash secretions and squirted them down the throats
freezing—and requires the performance of vari- and into the lungs of a group of unfortunate

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