Can You Catch A Cold?: Untold History & Human Experiments

by Daniel Roytas, Samantha Bailey (foreword)

The idea that the common cold and influenza are spread via coughing, sneezing, and physical contact has been firmly implanted in our minds since childhood. However, the results of human experiments cast doubt on this theory. Researchers have failed to consistently demonstrate contagion by exposing healthy people directly to sick people or their bodily fluids. These findings suggest that our understanding of infectious disease is incomplete and challenges the long-held belief that a cold or flu can be ‘caught’.

So, what might be causing these seasonal afflictions, and why do they appear to spread from person-to-person? Can You Catch A Cold? Untold History & Human Experiments answers these questions by delving into the historical records, investigating past pandemics, exploring human psychology, and reviewing more than 200 contagion studies. With over 1,000 citations, no stone has been left unturned in the pursuit of unravelling this age-old mystery.

“The claim that colds and flu are contagious may be one of the greatest ever blunders of medical science. Prepare to be shocked as this book brilliantly brings to life the buried data that can no longer be ignored”.
- Dr Mark Bailey Co-author of The Final An Antidote to Medical Tyranny
“An incredible, thorough exploration of history that will make you question everything you thought you knew about infectious diseases, health, and the human condition. This well-researched book, with over 1,000 references, provides valuable insights to help piece together the intricate puzzle of why we experience illness. A paradigm-shattering, must-read for those trying to determine the truth and acquire a healthier and happier life!”
- Roman Bystrianyk Co-author of Dissolving Disease, Vaccines & Forgotten History

“How many of us go through life claiming we know something without having ever given it any critical thought? Proverbs 18:3 says, ‘If one gives an answer before he hears, it is his folly and shame’. Daniel Roytas set aside his ‘common knowledge’ to truly explore the premises and history surrounding contagion, and came out with a completely new outlook on the subject. Anyone interested in developing a richer understanding of this topic owes it to themselves to read this book”.
- Dr Jordan Grant Physician & Educator

Genres: Health, Nonfiction, Science

455 pages, Paperback

Published March 23, 2024

Reviews

[Opa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Can You Catch A Cold is an eye-opener to our human medical belief system that we never question. I was always told that germs cause every illness and now find out that Dr. Louis Pasteur's discovery of germs could never be replicated using the scientific method. I believed that viruses are the cause of many serious illnesses. Now I find out that viruses are invisible and have never been seen let alone isolated for comparison to other viruses. I have always been warned about the contagion of colds, cases of flu, and other sicknesses. Mr. Roytas cites hundreds of studies, tests, and references that our medical belief system is never allowed to be challenged probably because of pharmaceutical money issues. The author offers several alternatives for causes for colds and cases of flu that logically make sense, but no one will fund the experiments to see what is the true cause. To Mr. Roytas's credit, he does not answer his title question, but presents the evidence and allows the reader to answer the question. Personally, I believe that if he had answered the question, his book would not have been allowed to be published.

[C · Rating 5 out of 5]

Accurate science- a first.

As a scientist, the last few years have brought to light just how little the scientific community is willing to question pre-existing theories.

Logic and rational thought have been recently replaced with fear mongering, socially driven coercion and outright lies.

This book comprehensively uncovers how today's "facts" are based on outright unproven experiments, dated ideas, or literal fallacies.

The tone of the book is suitable for both readers with a science background and lay people. The author uses easy to understand language and analogies to explain concepts throughout the book.

A must read for both scientists and lay people, along side the equally well cited 'Virus Mania'.

[Mwalkes · Rating 5 out of 5]

This diligently cited book outlines in a conversational tone the historical issues of illness and its causative factors. It reminds us to keep an open mind as the author reveals the many twists and turns of diseases ascribed to be contagious.

EVERYONE should read this book. Buy it for yourself. Buy it for a friend. Ask your library to purchase it.

Florence Nightingale in a letter to British Surgeon James Pattison Walker:
"Facts are everything - Doctrines are nothing. See what harm the German pathologists have
done us. There are no specific diseases. There are specific disease conditions. It is that which is
bringing the medical profession to grief, and will, in time, make a great reform - to wit - to
make them make the public care for its own health and not rely on doctrines. It is a grand thing
for weak minds - the doctrine of contagion." p. 34

Dr. Ashbel Smith determined that Yellow Fever was not contagious. He felt this was important because "a belief in the contagiousness of this disease would deprive the sick of the most necessary attentions" and because non-contagion destroys many horrors of an epidemic." a) Steps to prevent outbreaks would be ineffective, b) people would be denied access to the correct treatment, and c) the ill would continue to be subjected to inhumane and ineffective practices like quarantine. p 44
The following paragraph implores us to look outside the human body and study nature to learn the nature of illness and health!

Medical meteorologists or weather doctors were unconvinced by the contagion model, noting how it was unable to account for the pace (i.e. near simultaneous, scope (across countries and continents), timing, (i.e. coinciding with atmospheric phenomena), and direction (i.e. from east to west) of sickness spread. p. 45

By page 85, I am 'experimentally convinced' of "spontaneous generation" of microbes. By all accounts I have encountered, Pasteur sounds like a slippery dude. He reminds me of Teflon Tony with his flimsy evidence, controversial swings of alignment, and ability to quietly settle debate without providing the evidence needed to do so. It reminded me of my 7th grade softball games against the 8th grade girls, who also fulfilled the role of umpire.

At page 88, I decided that all is fair in 'love, war, and science.'

Can you believe Koch and Rivers never were able to meet the criteria of their 'Postulates?' From that lack of evidence, medicine assumed and inferred the prescence of viruses, supposedly found with electronic microscopy, then proudly morphed into the phase of 'Evidence-Based-Practice.'

Sick people secrete inflammatory mediators that are, by themselves, capable of producing symptoms of cold and flu. p. 148.

One of the secrets of the virus scam is to attribute many different presentations of an 'illness'. p 151.

Chapter 19, the "Toxic Tale" is worth the price of the book. Historically, one thing was for certain, people got better with 'good air.' You don't say! Never have I heard the construct ASL, nor understood many of the intricacies of the lungs as a detoxifier.

The ONE SUBJECT that must NOT BE MENTIONED is chemical poisoning. Did DDT cause polio? No! It was a virus no one could find. It affected the children who followed the DDT sprayer and "caught" the virus.

This eloquent author takes us to the beginning in chapter 20. The aims of the book were to learn more about the topic, confront sacred topics, and examine possibilities. The comparison of living life afraid of a world that is out to get us compared to being empowered by information, trust, and joy makes for an easy decision for me.

This author's eloquent, kind and thorough review of the literature, explanation of complex topics, and quiet authority altered my paradigm and has enhanced my perspective profoundly. Thank you Daniel Roytas!

[Michael Taylor · Rating 5 out of 5]

Exposes the pseudoscience of contagion skilfully and comprehensively

Just like those who have challenged the “single-cause-single-effect” climate change narrative, Daniel dismantles, in great detail, the numerous other influenceing factors that lead to the symptoms of colds, flus etc. Factors such as psychosematic/ Nocebo effects, and seasonal changes in atmospheric conditions and their effecton the extremely complex mechanisms at play in the respiratory sytem are expored in detail. As are other factors such as changing environmental conditions and air pollution levels - often refrred to as the “terrain”. Just like with climate, there are multifactorial collective and competing causations and Daniel elegantly breaks down each of them in an easy to understand and very well-referenced way, making it easy for a lay-person to grasp the complexities. This is an expert peice of writing that will leve you in no doubt that what we’ve been conditioned to believe about contagion is, just like the pseudo-science of man-made climate change, the polar-opposite of “settled science.”

[C · Rating 3 out of 5]

Makes a convincing argument that the Spanish Influenza may not have been the flu at all, but was more likely the result of poisoning from chemical warfare agents used in WWI, worsened by toxic levels of aspirin used as the primary method of treatment at the time. The author however fails to mention the role vaccines may have played in making people sick, and also fails to explore the deleterious role of EMF and dirty electricity in producing illnesses often misdiagnosed as being caused by infectious diseases.

The most noteworthy takeaway from this book is that cold and flu symptoms can have multiple causes, including changes in the weather, air pollution, nutritional deficiencies, and poisoning, and the evidence in support of the cold and the flu being caused by contagious viruses is actually very weak.

[Mairin Schuman · Rating 5 out of 5]

WOW. I have been plodding through this book at a snail’s pace, but I’m so glad I did because I was able to soak everything in and ponder it over the course of 8 months or so. My overall takeaway book is largely summed up by this quote from the conclusion:

“You need to get used to saying, ‘I don’t know,’ and accept that, for many things, you will never know for sure. It’s not as much fun to admit you might be wrong- it’s a fragile ego’s worst nightmare. But, ultimately, this tougher road to travel is the right one to take.”

An absolute must-read for anyone who values their health and seeks to understand the nature of disease.

[Shayne McCarthy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Anyone and everyone should read this book for the vast knowledge and information it possesses. To be empowered and open minded is a real strength to have and one that mustn’t be allowed to be stamped out. Worth the read.

[Leslie Portu · Rating 5 out of 5]

An essential read for every human on planet Earth who values their personal freedoms and the upholding of rigorous standards in science—lest we soon find ourselves in the midst of the next global “pandemic”

[Robert Gainey · Rating 1 out of 5]

I received this book as a joke, and what a joke it is. Quackery and conspiracy abound! Read it if you have any critical thinking skills and need a laugh, or, apparently, read it to shore up your preconceptions that, somehow, everything is a lie.

[Jamie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mind. Blown. A must read!🤯🤯🤯

[Kasper · Rating 5 out of 5]

escape the matrix by reading this book lol. nah fr it's very good and he backs up everything he writes with sources that you can read yourself at the end of the book.

[Shevy · Rating 1 out of 5]

A kind of insane view and very twisted and questionable data