The Substack author and frequent commentator and critic of allopathic medicine, Sayer Ji, recently posted a video about his views questioning the germ theory of disease. This statement summarizes his perspective: “In Genes, Germs, and the Myth of the Invisible Enemy: Toward a New Model of Health, we explore how this paradigm has functioned more as a psychological operation than a scientific certainty. Drawing on the emerging understanding of biological communication and adaptive signaling, I introduce the XENOGEN Model: a dynamic framework that transcends the polarized ‘virus vs. no-virus’ debate. XENOGEN offers a middle way, seeing so-called ‘pathogens’ not as invaders, but as stress signals or environmental messengers that invite adaptation, healing, or recalibration. True health, therefore, is not a war to be won against invisible foes, but a dance of resilience and coherence within the greater web of life.” Is he onto something significant in promoting an important role for self-generated exosomes, or is he being manipulated by the interlopers to spread disinformation to downplay viruses?

Unfortunately, this is more the latter than the former on display. In looking for an explanation of why the causes of illness remain mysterious, he is accepting without realizing it, the misdirection of faulty science away from the germ theory of illness and not recognizing the fundamental role of viruses in 85% of chronic illness. It is true there are many things shed by living human cells, and his focus on exosomes is basically looking at cellular excretion products and assigning to them a role in cell functioning or dysfunction. This is being encouraged by the interlopers, as you suspect, to create an alternative cover story to misdirect seekers wanting to better understand causes of illness and sensing, intuitively, something is being missed. That is his forte, personally, in being able to see the holes in logic and the gaps in knowledge society is too complacent to attempt filling. But he is also naïve and assuming his only adversary is the established scientific order represented by the healthcare system when, in fact, his opposition goes much deeper and is more insidious in its effects and consequences.