The abandonment of logic. In 1877, German bacteriologist Robert Koch formulated a series of logical criteria that he felt were the necessary requirements that must be satisfied in order to establish a microorganism as the causative agent of disease. These steps were formally published in 1890, and are as follows: In 1952, Lester S. King,… Continue reading Koch’s Cholera Catastrophe
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The Germ Hypothesis Part 2: Koch’s Crisis
In the first part of this investigation into the germ hypothesis, we established what exactly a hypothesis is supposed to be in regard to natural science, which is a proposed explanation for an observed natural phenomenon. We briefly touched on what led to Louis Pasteur conjuring up his explanation of disease through germs with his plagiarized work… Continue reading The Germ Hypothesis Part 2: Koch’s Crisis