Are vaccines good or bad?

We
were taught in high school that vaccines have saved millions of lives in
America and Europe. One of the greatest heroes of modern medicine is Louis
Pasteur, the creator of the “germ theory,” the ideological foundation
for vaccines. But the real history of vaccines, and the real story of Louis
Pasteur, is something quite different. 

In his early career, Pasteur did believe that
germs were the cause of disease. But 15 years before his death he recanted this
belief. He came to believe that it was not germs but the degradation of an
organism’s internal environment that causes disease. He came to believe that
germs took advantage of degraded …read more