Scientific theories are always proven. Saying a theory is not proven is nonsense on its face.
Oh, you didn't know that?
Viruses and bacteria cause disease.
1)Necrotizing fasciitis is a serious infection caused by Streptococcus pyogenes bacteria.
2)A strain of Staphylococcus aureus bacteria causes MRSA
3)Neisseria meningitidis and Streptococcus pneumoniae causes bacterial meningitis
4)Tuberculosis is typically caused by bacteria called Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
5)Cholera is an intestinal infection caused by the bacteria Vibrio cholerae.
6)Bacillary dysentery is an intestinal inflammation caused by bacteria in the genus Shigella.
Etc, etc, etc...
I don't have to ponder who is ignorant here.
LOL! You spout the official line. But again, germ theory is still just that. A theory.
So.... I shall persist in pondering ignorance...
No dear, I listed some observable and verifiable facts.
And yes, germ theory is just that, a scientific theory.
Scientific theory: a coherent group of propositions formulated to explain a group of facts or phenomena in the natural world and repeatedly confirmed through experiment or observation.
You persist in wallowing in ignorance. Have fun.
Just because a theory explains what We see does not = truth. Some theorized the planet was flat because it seemed so to Them. Were They correct? I do ponder the ignorant One here.
To the ancients, the world did indeed seem flat. You look around you with the unaided eye, and the horizon circles around you on a straight line. This gives the impression we live on a flat disk. And the stars circle around us, giving the appearance that the gods made the universe literally revolve around us. A reasonable idea for a world inhabited by many kinds of gods and superstitions. No wonder we have such big egos. :-)
But they never tested this idea. There was no science as we now know it. The ancients thinking the world was flat could be called conjecture. It was very religious too. Creator gods and all that. You can't even call it a hypothesis because it was never tested.