Fact-check: “In general, the existence of any virus has never been scientifically proven, unlike that of bacteria.”
Verdict: False (97% confidence)
The claim is directly contradicted by over a century of documented scientific evidence from multiple independent methods. Viruses have been physically observed using electron microscopy for 90 years, genetically sequenced, isolated, grown in cell cultures, and demonstrated to cause disease in controlled experiments. The contrast with bacteria is real in terms of biology (viruses are not autonomous living organisms), but that biological distinction does not mean viruses are unproven — it simply…
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