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To be clear, there are a ton of studies listed there but all the ones I chased down (maybe 25%) they aren't isolating the virus.

My message you were replying to specifically called out Koch's Postulates [1] and the fact that virologists had to first redefine it then abandon it for epidemiological and modelling studies.

You effectively proved my point here, everything I see in the survey you linked fits into that description. I'm not arguing that viruses do or don't exist, only that I've never seen a study successfully isolate viral particles in a substrate, introduce it to a novel population, and re-isolate the virus from the novel population after they begin showing signs of disease.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch's_postulates




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