Hello, I'm not sure this is exactly the right part of the forum but it seems the most relevant.


Do you believe that the idea of germs causing disease is false?


I had someone say to me the other day that my idea of what causes disease and illness is very different to theirs. This seemed like a throwaway comment at first but got me thinking. To say that to someone who's spent the last 15 years staring into microscopes and working closely with bacteria and yeasts seems a bit like saying to a sailor that the sea doesn't exist? I'm confused, can someone fill me in?