Thread by @ReusVisser

Stefan Lanka recently claimed on Bitchute that he has done a "control experiment" which "is going to be the definitively experimental disproval of virology." You can find it yourself on that platform if you search for this title. It is a very spurious claim, as I will show. 1/n

His suggestion is that the so-called cytopathic effect (CPE) or cell damage usually said to prove the existence and impact of viruses is actually an artifact caused by the chemicals that are added to the viral cell cultures. Cell cultures without virus show the same damage. 2/n

The picture he shows in this short video displays damage done to healthy cells over 1 and 5 days, with different chemicals added to the mix (antibiotics, and various other substances). The same that are added to virus-infected cells. Ergo: there is no evidence for a virus. 3/n

This presentation is misleading for he should have given also pictures of SARS-CoV-2 virus infected cells as a positive control (but most probably he does not have access to a lab that has the proper safety level to work and experiment with this virus). 4/n

Secondly, he erroneously suggests that in regular control experiments these added chemicals are not present. This is most definitely not the case: mock-infected cells get the same treatment as virus-infected cells, EXCEPT for the virus. You won't have to take my word for it. 5/n

MOCK-INFECTED: "Two specimens are used one that is infected with the virus/vector of interest and the other is treated the same way except without the virus. Sometimes a non-virulent strain is used in the mock-infected specimen." genscript.com/molecular-biol… 6/n

The key sentence here is: mock-infected controls are "treated the same way" as those infected with viruses. And yet they show clear differences in all the papers I have consulted presenting CPE effects caused by SARS-CoV-2. 7/n

But here's the catch: these mock-infected cells also show cell damage over time, like the virus-infected cells do, but different both in quality and quantify. So it requires a trained eye to spot the difference. Just showing a couple of cells with some damage won't do here. 8/n

See for more details: Sébastien Eymieux et al., "Ultrastructural modifications induced by SARS-CoV-2 in Vero cells: a kinetic analysis of viral factory formation, viral particle morphogenesis and virion release." Jan. 2021 9/n link.springer.com/article/10.100…

We can safely conclude that Stefan Lanka's much hyped CONTROL EXPERIMENT itself lacks a positive control, ignores that mock-infected cells do show specific damage over time, and that controls are used properly in science. That in no way implies the non-existence of viruses. 10/n

This thread has now been posted as a chapter of THE CORONA CONSPIRACY and will be expanded upon. integralworld.net/visser203.html