Did Koch Really Prove Germ Theory?

The man who supposedly proved that germs cause disease actually proved the exact opposite,

and we have been ignoring his failures for over a hundred years. You have probably

heard of Robert Koch. He is considered the father of bacteriology, the guy who won

a Nobel Prize and created the "gold standard" rules, known as Koch’s Postulates,

for proving that a specific microbe causes a specific illness. We are told in textbooks

that he conclusively proved this link with Anthrax, Tuberculosis, and Cholera.

But when you actually go back and read his original papers and the work of his contemporaries,

the story falls apart completely. Let’s start with Anthrax. Koch’s theory was