Outlaw the "Business with Disease":
The Chemnitz Program
The Greatest Challenge for Health and Life
Throughout history, many other epidemics including plague, cholera, and
smallpox, were the number one killers. As recently as 400 years ago, one-third
of the European population fell victim to epidemics. The cause of these
epidemics was well known at the time: epidemics were the curse of heaven
for the sins of mankind.
Everything changed 100 years ago. The French chemist Louis Pasteur discovered
that infections are not a curse, but are caused by bacteria and other
micro-organisms. Pasteur’s discovery paved the way for the development
of vaccines and antibiotics. Was this important discovery immediately
welcomed? No, of course not. His colleagues and the medical academy attacked
Pasteur on the grounds that he was not a physician, but merely a chemist.
When cowpox vaccines were first used to prevent deadly smallpox infections,
this treatment was openly ridiculed. Nineteenth century caricatures show
cows growing out of the bodies of people who had just been vaccinated
with the lifesaving cowpox vaccine.
The philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer said: “New thoughts and new
truths go through three stages. First, they are ridiculed. Next, they
are violently opposed. Then, finally, they are accepted as being self-evident.”
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