Is Steve Kirsch merely a shadow boxer who criticizes Big Pharma, but avoids the core challenge: true viral isolation? Historical experiments reveal contagion is far from proven.

Steve Kirsch, Virus Isolation, and the Forgotten Experiments That Undermine Germ Theory

Introduction

Steve Kirsch has styled himself as a bold critic of Big Pharma and its COVID-19 shots. He has spent millions promoting his message and built a reputation as a gadfly against the medical establishment. Yet when it comes to the foundational challenge posed by doctors like Andrew Kaufman, Tom Cowan, and Mark Bailey, Kirsch has remained strangely evasive.

These doctors — formerly licensed, credentialed professionals — have asked for something very simple: real evidence of viral isolation. Not computer models. Not soup in a petri dish. But true separation, purification, and demonstration that a virus, in its pure form, can cause illness in a healthy subject.

If Kirsch wants credibility as more than a provocateur, this is the challenge he must take up.

What True Isolation Means

The core issue is often muddied by semantics. Modern virology claims to “isolate” a virus by:

• Taking mucus or sputum from a patient,

• Mixing it with monkey kidney cells, bovine serum, and antibiotics,

• Watching the cells deteriorate (called a cytopathic effect),

• Declaring that the virus has been “isolated.”

But in plain scientific terms, that is not isolation. True isolation requires:

1. Filtration – removing all cellular debris.

2. Centrifugation – separating viral particles from other material.

3. Pipetting and purification – yielding a pure viral solution.

4. Characterization – micrographs and biochemical properties.

5. Transmission tests – introducing the purified agent into healthy animals or humans and reproducing identical symptoms.

Without these steps, what we have is inference and assumption, not proof.

The Forgotten Experiments of 1918–1919

This is not a new controversy. During the Spanish Flu era, leading doctors conducted rigorous experiments to test whether disease could be transmitted directly. Their results remain shocking — and almost completely buried.

• Dr. Joseph Goldberger, Dr. Milton Rosenau, and Navy Collaborators (Boston, 1919): Over 100 healthy volunteers were exposed to blood, mucus, and even direct coughs and sneezes from influenza patients. None became ill【DOI:10.1001/JAMA.1919.02610420060028】.

• Dr. L. T. McCoy and Dr. W. Richey (San Francisco, 1919): Repeated Rosenau’s methods with 50 healthy subjects. No one contracted influenza.

• Dr. Richard Sellards (Johns Hopkins, 1919): Attempted to transmit measles by injecting blood and nasal secretions from infected individuals. He failed — no contagion occurred.

• Dr. Alfred Hess (New York, 1918–1919): Tried to transmit chickenpox (varicella). He could not. In his JAMA letter (Oct. 1919), Hess wrote: “We are confronted with two diseases — the two most infectious of the endemic diseases in this part of the world — which we are unable to transmit artificially from man to man.”

These were not fringe researchers. They were the establishment of their day. Yet their findings undermined the very foundation of germ theory.

The Reproducibility Crisis in Antibody Research

Modern virology leans heavily on antibody assays as indirect evidence of viral presence. But even here, the ground is shaky. Recent studies have declared an “antibody validation crisis”:

• Nature reported in 2020 that many commercial antibodies lack validation and produce false results【Nature, 2020†d41586】.

• Pivotalscientific called it “a reproducibility crisis” with major implications for immunology.

• Virology blogs have documented how antibodies often bind nonspecifically, creating the illusion of viral detection.

If the antibodies themselves are untrustworthy, then much of the supposed “evidence” for viruses collapses.

The Trickery of Modern “Isolation”

Calling today’s methods “isolation” is like Penn & Teller calling sleight of hand “teleportation.” You are meant to watch the show and suspend disbelief. But the props — monkey kidneys, fetal bovine serum, antibiotics — are not viral proof. They are stagecraft.

Even Robert Malone, who claims the virus has been isolated, has never produced it in the classical sense of filtration, centrifugation, and purified micrographs. He, too, operates in the realm of inference.

Persecuted Innovators Who Stepped Out of Line

This pattern is not new. Doctors who find success outside the orthodox framework are often silenced:

• Tullio Simoncini, Italian oncologist, treated cancers as fungal overgrowth (candida) using sodium bicarbonate. He survived an assassination attempt but was deregistered. His medical credentials were scrubbed, replaced with a philosophy PhD to brand him a “quack.”

• Royal Rife, inventor of microscopes that allegedly observed live microorganisms beyond accepted resolution, developed “beam ray” frequency therapy. His work appeared in Smithsonian reports (1944) before being denounced by the AMA and buried.

These cases show how dissenters are neutralized: not through debate, but through erasure.

Steve Kirsch’s Dilemma

Kirsch has built a reputation for bold statements, open challenges, and headline-grabbing offers of millions for debate. But unless he funds or undertakes the experiments demanded by Kaufman, Cowan, and Bailey, his credibility risks collapse.

So far, he has not:

• Produced true viral isolation data,

• Confronted the historical contagion experiments,

• Or challenged the sleight of hand of modern “cell culture isolation.”

Without this, Kirsch may come to be seen not as an advocate for truth, but as a performer who points at Big Pharma while avoiding the deeper rot.

What Needs to Be Done

The challenge is simple:

1. Take biological material from a sick patient.

2. Filter, centrifuge, and purify it.

3. Characterize the resulting particles.

4. Inject or expose healthy test animals.

5. Observe whether disease manifests.

If a virus exists as claimed, this should be straightforward. Yet after more than a century, the scientific record remains devoid of such demonstrations.

Conclusion

The forgotten experiments of Sellards, Hess, Rosenau, McCoy, and Richey cast a long shadow. They failed to transmit measles, chickenpox, or influenza under controlled conditions. Modern virology’s reliance on inference, antibodies, and cell culture “magic tricks” has not erased those results.

If Steve Kirsch truly wants to expose the lies of Big Pharma, he must do more than pontificate. He must put his resources into replicating — or refuting — these foundational experiments. Otherwise, Steve Kirsch will be remembered not as a truth-teller, but as a poser — a shadow boxer throwing phantom punches, convincing the crowd he is fighting the system, while never stepping into the ring where the real battle waits: the question of viral isolation.

Real science demands proof. Until isolation is shown by the gold standard, the possibility remains that what we call “viruses” are not external invaders at all — but signals, detoxifications, or cellular responses mislabeled as pathogens.