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I spent ages trying to find the source that Pasteur said this, and as far as I can tell it was an urban myth that perpetuated without any originating proof.

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Thanks. I am unsurprised. I will do some research to find out when the story hit that he recanted. https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/53293/did-louis-pasteur-admit-on-his-deathbed-bernard-the-inventor-of-terrain-theory

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