Kurginyan: Convergence of two immunity theories took place due to debate

05.02.2021, Moscow.

During the first third of the 20th century, humanity was living with the expectation that an immunity theory would save it, believing that a universal super-vaccine would appear, philosopher, political scientist and the leader of the Essence of Time movement Sergey Kurginyan said in a new issue of his analytical broadcast The Meaning of the Game published on February 3 on YouTube.

Ilya Mechnikov and Paul Ehrlich together received a Nobel prize for two absolutely different concepts of immunity ― phagocytic and humoral, Sergey Kurginyan reminded.

“They were striving for their versions of the truth, they debated with each other, and all of them hoped that they would save the humanity with their humoral or cellular concept. They wanted to save their loved ones and the humanity. And humanity was watching with bated breath, believing that this was the point when one universal super-vaccine would appear and save them from all diseases. Just make one injection and you are healthy for the rest of your life! No diseases, never!” Kurginyan described the atmosphere of expectation of that period.

The political scientist stressed that humanity was watching this passionate scientific struggle. “Everyone was following this debate, and no one attempted to silence his opponent.”

“Brilliant and passionate arguments were taking place, which are the only way to a real solution. Because they are based on freedom of thought. And now they are obviously banned,” the philosopher compares the situation of the 20th century with what we have today, when alternative considerations about the nature of the coronavirus and therapies to treat it are blocked even in the scientific circles.

Further, Sergey Kurginyan in this issue of his broadcast describes how the convergence of the two different immunity concepts took place, facilitated by military physicians who worked in India and China.

The philosopher also mentioned that one of those scientists, Sir Almroth Edward Wright, took the conflict between the humoral and the cellular immunity theories (i.e. between Ehrlich’s and Mechnikov’s theories) very emotionally, and he discussed his thoughts with the renown English play writer Bernard Shaw. The latter, in his turn, wrote a play The Doctor’s Dilemma about the conflict between the two immunity theories, with his friend Wright as a character named Colenso Ridgeon.

Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency

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