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He was more interested in finding favor with the French court and other influences not very concerned with scientific truths; his contemporary, Antoine Bechamp, from whom he stole discoveries, exposed him for the mediocre chemist and plagiarist he really was; and there is little doubt that Pasteur was fully aware that his theory of germs of the air was unproven, with his relenting on his death-bed that he was wrong; and Pasteur actively promoted (along with Jenner) the use of "vaccines" to inoculate against "germ caused" infection at the time, the uses of which were neither safe nor effective; the real heroes of the epoch were Bechamp and Florence Nightingale!

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On his deathbed Pasteur said, "The microbe is nothing. The terrain is everything!"

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