Steve Kirsch, Virus Isolation, and the Forgotten Experiments That Undermine Germ Theory. Kirsch critiques Big Pharma, but avoids the virus isolation challenge. Forgotten experiments show contagion unproven. Why not do the tests?

 Steve Kirsch has styled himself as one of the most visible critics of Big Pharma’s COVID-19 narrative. Through his Substack and frequent public appearances, he challenges the safety and efficacy of the injections. Yet when it comes to the fundamental question raised by Andrew Kaufman, Tom Cowan, Mark Bailey, and others — has a virus ever truly been isolated? — Kirsch falls silent.

This is not a minor detail. If the very existence of a virus has never been established by gold-standard methods of isolation, then the entire edifice of virology rests on inference, assumption, and laboratory trickery. Instead of simply pointing fingers at corrupt institutions, genuine critics must be willing to go deeper — to ask the questions that unsettle even the most hardened skeptics of Big Pharma.

What Real Isolation Means

Virologists often claim a virus has been “isolated,” but their definition does not match what the word actually means.

True isolation would involve:

1. Filtration – separating particles by size to remove cells, bacteria, and debris.

2. Centrifugation – purifying the remaining particles into a distinct layer.

3. Pipetting – extracting that purified layer without contamination.

4. Characterization – imaging and analyzing the purified particles.

5. Transmission Tests – introducing the purified material into healthy animals and observing whether they develop the same illness.

What is called “isolation” today is something else entirely. Samples of mucus or sputum are mixed with monkey kidney cells, bovine serum, and antibiotics in a petri dish. When those cells die, researchers claim a virus has been proven to exist. This is sleight of hand, not science — more fitting for Penn and Teller than a legitimate laboratory.

The Forgotten Experiments of 1918–1919

Mainstream history books claim that measles, chickenpox, and influenza are some of the most contagious diseases known to man. Yet carefully designed experiments conducted during and after the Spanish flu pandemic suggest otherwise.

• George A. Sellards, 1919 (Johns Hopkins)
  In attempts to prove measles contagious, Sellards inoculated volunteers with blood and nasal secretions from measles patients. No transmission occurred【Hess, 1919†JAMA】.

• Alfred Hess, 1918–1919 (New York)
  Hess attempted to demonstrate the contagiousness of varicella (chickenpox) but likewise failed. He wrote in JAMA: “We are confronted with two diseases… which we are unable to transmit artificially from man to man.”

• Milton Rosenau, 1919 (Boston)
  At the U.S. Public Health Service, Rosenau exposed 100 healthy sailors to influenza patients through coughs, sneezes, direct contact, and injections of mucus and blood. Not a single subject fell ill【DOI:10.1001/JAMA.1919.02610420060028】.

• Dr. McCoy and Dr. Richey, 1919 (San Francisco)
  Replicating Rosenau’s work with 50 subjects, they too failed to transmit influenza.

These negative results should have rocked the foundations of medicine. Instead, they were buried, forgotten, and replaced with a narrative of invisible pathogens leaping effortlessly from host to host.

The Antibody Crisis

Even when virology cannot show contagion, defenders point to antibodies as proof of infection. Yet antibody science itself is in crisis:

• A 2020 Nature feature described antibody research as plagued by poor reproducibility and lack of validation【Nature, 2020】.

• Pivotalscientific called it an ongoing “validation crisis.”

• Studies show that many antibodies sold for research are nonspecific, unreliable, and sometimes bind to the wrong proteins entirely.

If antibodies are not validated, they cannot serve as evidence of viral infection. They merely prove immune activity — but not necessarily its cause.

Persecuted Innovators: A Pattern of Suppression

History is littered with medical professionals who challenged orthodoxy only to be silenced.

• Tullio Simoncini – An Italian oncologist who observed that many cancers were associated with candida albicans. He successfully treated tumors with sodium bicarbonate but was deregistered, survived an assassination attempt, and saw his qualifications erased. Detractors now mock him as a “philosopher,” not an oncologist.

• Royal Raymond Rife – In the 1930s, he built microscopes said to visualize live microorganisms at impossible magnification and developed frequency devices to “devitalize” pathogens. His findings were initially published and celebrated, then buried under the weight of the AMA and ACS, his equipment destroyed, his reputation shattered.

• Jennifer Daniels – A U.S.-trained physician who used gum turpentine for detoxification and parasites in her Baltimore practice. She lost her license after pharmaceutical sales in her patient base declined, and her patients were documented as “healthy.”

The pattern is clear: when a treatment does not feed the pharmaceutical economy, its practitioners are vilified, censured, or erased.

Kirsch’s Million-Dollar Challenge

Steve Kirsch has made headlines offering $2 million to anyone who can prove him wrong about vaccine safety. Yet when Kaufman, Cowan, and Bailey demand real evidence of viral isolation, Kirsch does not fund or commission the experiments that could resolve the debate once and for all.

Unless Kirsch puts actual resources into gold-standard isolation studies — filtration, purification, characterization, and animal testing — his challenge risks being dismissed as theater. He risks becoming what he denounces in others: a man more invested in posturing than in proof.

Why This Matters

The issue is not merely academic. If viruses have never been isolated as claimed, then:

• Diseases like measles, varicella, and influenza may be detoxification events or responses to environmental stressors rather than contagious entities.

• Pandemic policy — lockdowns, masks, injections — rests on faulty premises.

• The pharmaceutical model of endless vaccination and drugging is exposed as an economic system, not a healing art.

To challenge Big Pharma without challenging virology itself is to fight a shadow while leaving its foundation intact.

Conclusion

The experiments of Sellards, Hess, Rosenau, McCoy, and Richey — together with the antibody crisis and the persecution of innovators — point to a sobering conclusion: contagion has never been scientifically proven under rigorous conditions.

Steve Kirsch presents himself as a champion of truth. But until he funds or demands genuine isolation experiments, his reputation risks collapsing into performance. The real challenge is not about bets or bravado. It is about scientific integrity.

Do the experiments. Then we will know. Until then, germ theory remains more a story than a science.

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