What Do You Know

In 2011 a German anti-vaccine campaigner, Stefan Lanka,  offered a 100,000 Euro prize to anyone who could prove that measles was actually a virus. When in 2014 a German doctor presented certain evidence  Lanka was ordered to pay up. The report of the case on theMedical Daily was typically dismissive of anything as absurd as to challenge the scientific medical establishment.

Lanka appealed and the decision was overturned in the German Federal Supreme Court which concluded that"There is not a single scientific study in the world which could prove the existence of such virus so far". To my knowledge Medical Daily did not report this subsequent turn of events but an account can be read here.

Now I have read so much on the rights and wrongs of vaccination, torn by a family history which included my parents losing a daughter to measles and then watching my own child affected by the MMR. I have watched the medical establishment attempt to destroy the work of Andrew Wakefield and actually had firsthand accounts of how they tried to destroy his family.

This is a big and contentious debate and one the medical establishment has too much invested in to consider losing, but my fascination in this case has nothing to do with the rights and wrongs of vaccinations, although if the German Federal Supreme Court is right there are some interesting questions to be addressed.

To me, the fascinating point about this story is that I had never thought to question whether the measles virus existed or not. My alternative views on health and cause and effect in matters of illness have caused me to question such fundamental "truths" as germ theory, and the work of Harvey Biggleson convinced me that so much of what we are told is a crock of ....

...but it never occurred to me that the measles was not a virus. I would argue about how to combat the virus but never questioned its existence.  It got me thinking what else do I take for granted as fact merely because I learnt it in a lesson at school and it is taken as a given because science says so. Bruce Lipton describes a similar realisation when he discovered so much of Genetic science is based on an unproven assumption. He became a scientist to escape the dogma of religion, only to find so much of his beloved science was in fact dogma.

I read recently that carbon dating was only accurate to 2000 years, which in the context of modern civilisations make it pretty irrelevant. But then most history is pretty irrelevant, just a series of fictional accounts presented by whoever prevailed.

I guess my point is that even the most open of minds needs to be cranked open a little wider and we should all be prepared to have our versions of reality "upset". My sense is that we are all in for some pretty big shocks in the coming months and years and so it would probably not be wise not to get too attached to accepted truths.

Apparently some people still believe the Earth is a sphere....how ridiculous,

Love

Bill