I've read Dr. Cowan's other books and find them extremely thought provoking. In fact, his Human Heart, Cosmic heart was recommended to me and my wife by a top cardiac surgeon. When I met Dr. Cowan, I found him to be one of the most naturally curious and refreshingly skeptical doctors I've met. Of course this meant he's been vilified by the medical establishment, the pharisees of medicine and money. It is a great shame there aren't more doctors like him, but in medical school, from what I understand, they do not teach you to question orthodoxy.
How does a virus attack Homosexuals in the West and heterosexuals in Africa? “Those who make you believe in absurdity, can make you commit atrocities.” Voltaire
re: "What constitutes a true "gold standard" test?... A genuine gold standard test must directly demonstrate causation.."
How is causation demonstrated? There are two methods, one speculative and one present.
1. - We can speculate the cause of an illness by creating the same illness with intentional actions. This is the Koch test. Take the purported cause and use it to create the disease, proving that it can be the cause - and then by inference claim it was also the cause in the case at hand. The weakness of this test is the infinite variety of disease and disease causes. The simplest illness, a cough, might have dozens, no hundreds of causes, which might cause a simple temporary cause to a serious cause that causes many other dangerous consequences. In addition, most diseases - have multiple causes. This is true simply because a case of illness with a single cause is often cured without medical attention, before it can be diagnosed.
2. - We can cure the illness. An illness is cured by addressing the cause. If we postulate a cause, and then address the cause, and the illness is cured, that was likely the cause. Every time we repeat the cure over a number of cases, we increase the validity of the causal claim. Illnesses with multiple causes will require multiple cure actions.
It is unfortunate that the book The Contagion Myth only uses the word "cure" three times and does not address the concept of cure seriously. The single use of "cured" references Andreas Kalcker - of CDS fame, who actually avoids the word "cured" referring instead to "exito" - success in Spanish, and recuperados - recuperation.
I believe study of "cure" is the key to answering the question of infectious diseases in general. It can be easily demonstrated that some infectious diseases, like head lice, are caused by the infectious agent. Demonstrating that bacteria can cause disease is perhaps more difficult, but it is not difficult to find good examples - with, for example, the penicillin cure.
The question of viruses is much more complex - as this book clearly illustrates. There is much about the concept of viral diseases that is ignored by our medical systems. The questions of various toxins, electromagnetic causes, nutritional deficiencies, and others are simply ignored as soon as a virus cause is proposed. This is intentional ignorance by a system that profits from the theory of viral causes.
The very concept of a virus is difficult enough to be incomprehensible to most people. We accept it on trust, not noticing that it - the definition of a virus - requires a large amount of trust. It is not alive, but it multiplies and evolves? We cannot see it? We must then ask, do viruses really exist? Or are they fictions of our imagination, like evil spirits, or perhaps simply collections of concepts we do not understand, but give a name. How can we tell?
If we can develop a "cure" that supports the belief in a viral cause - that provides evidence of cause. If we cannot cure by addressing a viral cause, can a viral cause really exist?
At present, only one disease claimed to be cause by a virus can be cured: hepatitis C. All other viral diseases are considered to be incurable, even though, like COVID, most cases are easily cured by health, healthier patients are less likely to be infected, less likely to suffer severe symptoms, and cure the illness faster. Even hepatitis C cures are confusing. There are reports of cured cases without drugs that attack the purported virus. And the viral cure does not work in every case. But no cure should be expected to cure every case. It's complicated. But when we fail to study cure and cured cases, we cannot attain a comprehensive understanding.
Clearly, something is wrong with our paradigm. It's time to study cure, cures, curing, and cured.
I've read Dr. Cowan's other books and find them extremely thought provoking. In fact, his Human Heart, Cosmic heart was recommended to me and my wife by a top cardiac surgeon. When I met Dr. Cowan, I found him to be one of the most naturally curious and refreshingly skeptical doctors I've met. Of course this meant he's been vilified by the medical establishment, the pharisees of medicine and money. It is a great shame there aren't more doctors like him, but in medical school, from what I understand, they do not teach you to question orthodoxy.
How does a virus attack Homosexuals in the West and heterosexuals in Africa? “Those who make you believe in absurdity, can make you commit atrocities.” Voltaire
Herpes is physically transmittable. What is it-- if not a virus. Same for SV-40.
re: "What constitutes a true "gold standard" test?... A genuine gold standard test must directly demonstrate causation.."
How is causation demonstrated? There are two methods, one speculative and one present.
1. - We can speculate the cause of an illness by creating the same illness with intentional actions. This is the Koch test. Take the purported cause and use it to create the disease, proving that it can be the cause - and then by inference claim it was also the cause in the case at hand. The weakness of this test is the infinite variety of disease and disease causes. The simplest illness, a cough, might have dozens, no hundreds of causes, which might cause a simple temporary cause to a serious cause that causes many other dangerous consequences. In addition, most diseases - have multiple causes. This is true simply because a case of illness with a single cause is often cured without medical attention, before it can be diagnosed.
2. - We can cure the illness. An illness is cured by addressing the cause. If we postulate a cause, and then address the cause, and the illness is cured, that was likely the cause. Every time we repeat the cure over a number of cases, we increase the validity of the causal claim. Illnesses with multiple causes will require multiple cure actions.
It is unfortunate that the book The Contagion Myth only uses the word "cure" three times and does not address the concept of cure seriously. The single use of "cured" references Andreas Kalcker - of CDS fame, who actually avoids the word "cured" referring instead to "exito" - success in Spanish, and recuperados - recuperation.
I believe study of "cure" is the key to answering the question of infectious diseases in general. It can be easily demonstrated that some infectious diseases, like head lice, are caused by the infectious agent. Demonstrating that bacteria can cause disease is perhaps more difficult, but it is not difficult to find good examples - with, for example, the penicillin cure.
The question of viruses is much more complex - as this book clearly illustrates. There is much about the concept of viral diseases that is ignored by our medical systems. The questions of various toxins, electromagnetic causes, nutritional deficiencies, and others are simply ignored as soon as a virus cause is proposed. This is intentional ignorance by a system that profits from the theory of viral causes.
The very concept of a virus is difficult enough to be incomprehensible to most people. We accept it on trust, not noticing that it - the definition of a virus - requires a large amount of trust. It is not alive, but it multiplies and evolves? We cannot see it? We must then ask, do viruses really exist? Or are they fictions of our imagination, like evil spirits, or perhaps simply collections of concepts we do not understand, but give a name. How can we tell?
If we can develop a "cure" that supports the belief in a viral cause - that provides evidence of cause. If we cannot cure by addressing a viral cause, can a viral cause really exist?
At present, only one disease claimed to be cause by a virus can be cured: hepatitis C. All other viral diseases are considered to be incurable, even though, like COVID, most cases are easily cured by health, healthier patients are less likely to be infected, less likely to suffer severe symptoms, and cure the illness faster. Even hepatitis C cures are confusing. There are reports of cured cases without drugs that attack the purported virus. And the viral cure does not work in every case. But no cure should be expected to cure every case. It's complicated. But when we fail to study cure and cured cases, we cannot attain a comprehensive understanding.
Clearly, something is wrong with our paradigm. It's time to study cure, cures, curing, and cured.
to your health, tracy
Author: A New Theory of Cure