The Untold Stories of Dr’s. Powell & Fraser

Written by Mike Stone on July 22, 2024. Posted in Current News

Sometimes when coming across information that one finds favorable, it is easy to accept it at face value without completely doing the due diligence of verifying the accuracy of the information for oneself.

This is especially true when the information comes from a trusted source. Because a source has provided valid information in the past, this can be used as justification to simply go along with it and accept whatever information they present.

We have all fallen for this intellectual laziness at one point in time or another. Knowing how easy it is to just accept information without verification is why I always try to make the case that people should never just trust anything 100%, even coming from myself or from any other source that they believe in.

We should all be willing to put in the effort and do our own research in order to verify any information that we come across for ourselves.

Recently, I realized that I was guilty of engaging in such intellectual laziness when I published my article The Infectious Myth Busted Part 6: The Germ Duel earlier this year.

 In the article, I presented many examples of different researchers who experimented upon themselves with germs in order to demonstrate the fraud of the germ “theory” of disease.

I framed the article with the story of Dr. John Bell Fraser, his experiments involving deliberate exposure to many “deadly” bacteria, and a subsequent germ duel that resulted from the newspaper articles detailing his work.

As supporting evidence within the body of the article, I discussed similar experiments that were undertaken by Dr. Thomas Powell. Both of these men utilized germs associated with the same diseases, and both exposed themselves, their family, and volunteers to the bacteria with no ill effects falling upon any of those involved. Needless to say, this is compelling and powerful evidence that essentially falsified the germ “theory” of disease.

However, a few weeks ago, I was confronted in a Twitter exchange with a member over the experimental evidence that I provided in support of the claims made by the doctors.

While this person resorted to some rather fallacious arguments relating to the where the information came from, whether the two doctors actually existed, and the age of the evidence, there was one area where they made a valid point.

In my article, all that I had provided were a few newspaper and magazine stories quoting the doctors and their work. As I did not have much in the way of independent confirmation that these experiments actually did occur as described by the doctors, I realized that there was some truth in this criticism levied at me and my article.

When I originally came across information on the work of both Dr. Powell and Dr. Fraser, it was from the writings of Dr. Herbert Shelton in his 1939 book The Hygienic System (pages 220-222).

To support Dr. Shelton’s information, I had found a 1897 newspaper article detailing Dr. Powell’s experiments as well as a research letter published by Dr. Fraser in The Canada Lancet in 1916. While the research letter published by Dr. Fraser lent a lot of credibility to his claims due to its very nature, the newspaper article for Dr. Powell left a lot to be desired.

Why was I willing to simply take his word that the experiments happened on multiple occasions in front of numerous nameless physicians? Was it because of the faith that I had in Dr. Shelton, who lived during that time, that I was willing to accept this evidence without much effort to verify on my part that this information was valid?

I was a bit frustrated in myself, not because I felt that this information was invalid and that these experiments did not actually take place as described, but in my laziness to present the information without going as far as I could to verify the stories for myself before fully accepting them.

Thus, in an effort to make up for my failing in this instance, I decided to put as much effort as I could in vetting the events surrounding Drs. Powell and Fraser, scouring the web for any further sources mentioning the two doctors and their experiments.

It was a frustrating experience as what is freely available on the web does not amount to much, and the information was scattered over many disparate sources.

In fact, it wasn’t until I came across a “Report for Action” on the house once owned by Dr. Fraser that I was able to make much headway. Within the report, I found the titles to a few relevant newspaper articles, and upon a Google search, I found them located in the archives at Newspapers.com.

As is often the case these days, the articles were behind a pay wall. Fortunately, there was an offer for a free week trial that I was able to take advantage of, and with their excellent search engine (I swear I’m not advertising for the site…it just has a great search engine), I was able to find plenty of articles on both Dr. Powell and Dr. Fraser.

Along with the other pieces of information that I had already acquired, I was able to piece together enough of their stories to the point where I feel fully satisfied that these experiments have been properly vetted, and that any criticisms against their work can be effectively silenced.

This was a very rewarding investigation as one of my favorite things to do is to give back the voices to the researchers of the past who have been drowned out and buried by special interests.

I want these stories to be documented and preserved for future generations so that we can all learn from the past and avoid making these same mistakes going forward. With that in mind, presented below is the result of my much more thorough investigation into these brave doctors and their monumental contribution to exposing the fraud of the germ “theory.”

Hopefully, these stories will help inspire others to stand up for what they know to be true even when it seems that the “consensus” is against them.

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