The Electron Microscope Problem: Why No Virus Has Ever Been Properly Isolated

Source: https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/the-electron-microscope-problem-why

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There is a fundamental problem in virology: the scientific standards established in the 1950s for virus identification were quietly abandoned in the 1960s when researchers couldn’t find the viruses they were looking for.

In this well-witten essay Unbekoming summarizes an influential book on the subject which examines the evidence for this claim and its implications for modern virus detection methods.

 

After first discussing in depth the history of the whole issue, the book concludes that the whole virology ' science' is based on quick-sand. 

> The standard was established in the 1950s: purify the particles, image them with an electron microscope, biochemically characterize them.

When researchers in the 1960s couldn’t find cancer viruses in human cells using this standard, they blamed the methodology rather than their hypothesis.

They invented molecular markers to substitute for the absent viral particles.

Modern virology inherited this substitution and built an entire edifice of virus detection on methods that cannot prove a virus exists without first isolating that virus.

No virus has ever been properly isolated according to the standards virologists themselves established in the 1950s.

The electron microscope problem is not a problem with electron microscopes.

It is a problem with what happens when evidence doesn’t support a hypothesis and researchers decide to change the evidence rather than the hypothesis.

 

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2 hours ago, Red Phoenix said:

The Electron Microscope Problem: Why No Virus Has Ever Been Properly Isolated

Source: https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/the-electron-microscope-problem-why

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There is a fundamental problem in virology: the scientific standards established in the 1950s for virus identification were quietly abandoned in the 1960s when researchers couldn’t find the viruses they were looking for.

In this well-witten essay Unbekoming summarizes an influential book on the subject which examines the evidence for this claim and its implications for modern virus detection methods.

 

After first discussing in depth the history of the whole issue, the book concludes that the whole virology ' science' is based on quick-sand. 

> The standard was established in the 1950s: purify the particles, image them with an electron microscope, biochemically characterize them.

When researchers in the 1960s couldn’t find cancer viruses in human cells using this standard, they blamed the methodology rather than their hypothesis.

They invented molecular markers to substitute for the absent viral particles.

Modern virology inherited this substitution and built an entire edifice of virus detection on methods that cannot prove a virus exists without first isolating that virus.

No virus has ever been properly isolated according to the standards virologists themselves established in the 1950s.

The electron microscope problem is not a problem with electron microscopes.

It is a problem with what happens when evidence doesn’t support a hypothesis and researchers decide to change the evidence rather than the hypothesis.

 

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Anyone reading my posts during 2025 will know that Dr Enders experiments of 1954 are often referred to. Why? Let's go back 70 years.

 

His lab work set the standard for virology for decades after. Why were these experiments so applauded? Well! The good doctor, found that the perti dish with mucus from a 'diseased' person broke down the nutrients in the dish. This was immediately proclaimed, as irrefutable evidence, that the mucus virus was the culprit. Here was proof at long last. Virology had come of age. From that time on any virus could be found by proceeding as Dr Enders did. just needed a splash of snot or fluid or mucus.

 

However!!! In the experiment, Enders also did a control; that is a separate experiment that ran alongside the celebrated one. And guess what??? The end result of both experiments showed the same break down of the nutrients. Enders said so in his conclusion. It was the lab experiment procedures that did the deed!

 

But!!! As much as the virologists liked the break down of the nutrient bit; they didn't go a bundle on the control result. This little problem had to be overcome. So guess what??? The white-coats didn't do any. Controls were considered not to be of significance from then on. They just went with the good part. And the $$$ poured in. The birth of the vaccine era, to nullify any elusive virus, was on its way.

 

And!!! So it is to this day. $$$ funding research abounds. Big Pharma makes billions. White-coats get a very nice living. All the while, anything remotely negative to the virology cause, like the truth, is hidden away. And nature forbid anyone speaking out.