[Explaining away vaccinations]
For years Dr. Matthew J. Rodermund, M.D. of Wisconsin, offered $10,000 to anyone who could prove scientifically that smallpox is contagious. Nobody ever claimed the money. [...]
Germs don't cause disease anymore than flies cause garbage. Flies don't cause garbage. Garbage attracts flies!
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I suppose there's the issue that 1) smallpox has been virtually eradicated, and 2) such proof would involve infecting someone with it and deliberately subjecting others to the presence of that person and seeing if they get sick too, and that's not exactly an ethical thing to do.
Fascinating.
For years Dr. Matthew J. Rodermund, M.D. of Wisconsin, offered $10,000 to anyone who could prove scientifically that smallpox is contagious.
Rodermund also believed that the lungs, and not the heart, were responsible for the circulation of blood.
Nobody ever claimed the money.
Of course not. Much like Kent Hovind's $250,000 challenge, the conditions set made it impossible for anyone to win, and he knew it.
You also forgot to mention that he made the challenge in 1900. Some of your readers may find that interesting.
Germs don't cause disease anymore than flies cause garbage. Flies don't cause garbage. Garbage attracts flies!"
You lost any hint of credibility the second you quoted a quack from the turn of the last century as an authority. And you're posting on Stormfront, so you didn't have much to begin with anyway.
I can only think of one case where a cash challenge to prove something was ever paid out.
A Holocaust denier put out a "prove there was a Holocaust" challenge, and a Holocaust survivor took him up on it. The denier, of course, refused to pay.
So the survivor took him to court -- and won.
The point is that, with rare exceptions, these cash challenges usually aren't taken seriously by the people most likely to try to prove them. For one reason, the standards are usually impossibly high. For another reason, the people who would be most likely to come up with proof usually would take a salary cut by psending so much time trying to create sufficient proof. Third, the people offering the challenge are generally crackpots, so they don't want to dignify them.
Fantastic thought process, Saint. The next time your child is sick, make you take out the garbage, and all will be well in your world.
So does being a White supremacist lower your IQ, or do White supremacists just have lower IQs to begin with?
Probably both, really... it's undeniable that the majority of them are either dumb to begin with or too hateful to think straight.
I thought I was clever, having realized that rejecting evolution with the proof that "evolution is just a theory, so it is not a fact" would cause people to not only reject the theory of gravity, germ theory and theories on electromagnetism, among others. Which I thought people accepted (honestly, I'd never seen someone reject germ theory).
The Smallpox Eradication Program, from 1950-80.
Smallpox now exists only in culture flasks in various labs around the world; with debate in the scientific community to this day about what should be done with such: either continue using such for further virological study/research, or to destroy these cultures, thus rendering Smallpox as a species completely extinct .
...you can contact this 'Dr. Rodermund' (who has clearly been living under a stone for decades; PROTIP: the last person to die from Smallpox was in 1977) about who to send the $10,000 to, Faint(IQ)64.
@Ebon
So I guess this fundie won't mind in the slightest if I were to inject him with Ebola. To say nothing of having a very heavy anvil dropped on his head from a great height? After all - with Germs & Gravity - mere 'Theories' can't kill him?! [/smartarse] >:D
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I could give you the names of several researchers who died of smallpox and a few deaths caused by accidental leaks in a storage box but you would not believe it anyway.
I have been vacinated for smallpox. How about you ? care to expose yourself to the virus ?
So you're arguing smallpox isn't contagious...
Yeah, the original inhabitants of these territories
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would like a word with you.
Confused?
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