CP3S said:

That sounds all cool and anti-establishment and shit, definitely the sort of thing I have a natural tendency to want to get behind, the only problem is that "germ theory" is very easily proven even in amateur settings (i.e. we don't need an AMA controlled environment or equipment to prove germ theory). To ascribe to germ theory denialism, you have to throw out everything we know (know meaning what can be seen and observed) about microorganisms. Germ theory denialism is so far out there, you have to have a very poor grasp on the science to be able to take it seriously. The AMA may be a big greedy entity with loads of wealth and power, but even if they are, they'd have to rig every microscope in the world and be able to practice influence over the bodies of every human being and animal on the planet in order for germ theory to stand as firmly as it does if it is a conspiracy.

There could never be an AMA conspiracy! Except for maybe the three or four times that they were convicted of um... conspiracy. Pleomorphism will eventually be accepted as fact as more scientists view it in action through dark field microscopes.

While it is ridiculous to deny the existence of communicable disease, it is equally ridiculous to accept a germ theory based on strictly monomorphic pathogens. But that's where the MONEY is.