The “virus” concept arose not from scientific success but from failure—a desperate attempt to preserve the cause-and-effect structure of germ theory when its cornerstone could not be fulfilled.
Mayer, Ivanovsky, Beijerinck, Stanley and Ruska - hailed as the fathers of virology - did not make a discovery, but created a deception: they pieced together the crumbling remains of germ theory into an artificial mosaic of the so-called tobacco mosaic “virus”.
TMV: The First "Virus"
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