koch came up with the hypothesis of the germ theory of disease.
koch came up with the hypothesis of the germ theory of disease.
who came up with the hypothesis of the germ theory of disease?
koch
germ theory denialism (gtd) is as old as germ theory itself beginning with the rivalry of pasteur and béchamp. pasteur's work in preventing beverage contamination led him to discover that it was due to microorganisms and led him down the path to be the first scientist to show the theory was valid and popularize it in europe. although he was not the first to have the idea and scientists such as girolamo fracastoro (had the idea that fomites could harbor the seeds of contagion), agostino bassi (discovered the muscardine disease of silkworms was caused by a fungus that was named beauveria bassiana), friedrich henle (developed the concepts of contagium vivum and contagium animatum), and others had earlier proposed ideas similar to germ theory.
germ theory denialism
germ theory's stance that the "germ" was the disease's "necessary and sufficient cause"—the single factor both required and complete to result in the disease—proved false. germ theory gradually evolved to include other factors, whereupon germ theory resembled miasmatic theory, which had had to recognize bacteria as a causal factor, and so the two competing explanations merged without true, decisive victor. twentieth-century philosophy, inspired by revolutions in physics, establishment of molecular biology, and advances in epidemiology, revealed that any claim of a single causal factor both necessary (required) and sufficient (complete), "the" cause, is untenable. french-born microbiologist rené dubos, a biographer of pasteur, discussed tuberculosis to illustrate disease's social causes and to illustrate the failure of germ theory, whose apparent successes were aided by improvements in nutrition and living conditions but sparked scientific research that brought a wealth of new understandings.
koch–pasteur rivalry