How Wealthy Industrialists Used Germ “Theory” to Reshape Medicine for Profit. Episode ten of AntiViral examines the rise of the germ “theory” of disease despite the lack of scientific evidence in its support and in spite of the many influential voices who opposed it. Prior to its widespread acceptance, the dominant explanation for disease was the miasma theory,… Continue reading AntiViral Ep. 10: Rockefeller and the Snake Oil Myth