Virologist Stefan Lanka offered 100,000 euros to anyone who could provide scientific publications that proved that the measles virus had been isolated and thus proven to exist.

Why didn’t he have to pay out the money?

• a. Someone provided scientific papers, but they did not show evidence that the measles virus had ever been isolated and proven to exist.
• b. He advertised his offer in a very obscure magazine so that no-one saw it.
• c. No-one took him up on his offer because they thought of him as a ‘conspiracy theorist’.

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