“Google Dr Enders' measles experiments of 1954. You could be enlightened.” Yes. I did. And that rather spectacularly backfires on your argument. Enders and Thomas Peebles didn't discover that measles doesn't exist. In 1954 they successfully isolated the measles virus from an infected child, grew it in tissue culture and documented characteristic changes in infected cells. Their paper concluded that the agents they had isolated were representatives of the viral species responsible for measles. That work produced the Edmonston strain, which became the basis for the measles vaccine licensed in 1963. The strain is still held today in a recognised biological repository, with its identity verified by whole-genome sequencing. So your suggestion that reading Enders will somehow reveal that viruses are imaginary is rather like telling someone to read Newton because it proves gravity doesn't exist. And then there's the usual anti-vaccine trick: take a legitimate scientific paper, find something you don't understand about its methodology, and announce that the entire field of virology has therefore been exposed as fraudulent. That's not scientific scepticism. It's scientific illiteracy with a search engine. As for the “MSM” insult — Enders' 1954 paper was published in a scientific journal. The evidence doesn't become false because it appeared in a journal rather than on Facebook. So yes, I Googled Enders. You should try reading him rather than using his name as an anti-vaccine talisman. Because the really embarrassing part is this: The man you're telling me to read is one of the very scientists whose work demonstrated the measles virus and ultimately led to the vaccine you are arguing against. You don't refute 70 years of virology by calling scientists names.
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