Antoine Bechamp: The First Anti-Vaxxer?
About this episode
The episode discusses the rivalry between Louis Pasteur and Antoine Bechamp, focusing on Bechamp's discredited theories about germs and their potential resurgence in respectability.
Louis Pasteur’s bitter rival staked everything on a discredited theory of the role that germs play in the body. If his theories regain a measure of respectability, as many believe they already have, will statues of Antoine Bechamp appear beside those of Pasteur?
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