[syhprum (OP)]

There a common belief that drinking the water in which eggs have been boiled causes warts.
this is entirely plausible as many life forms have been found that will survive 100°C, it is now known that warts at caused by a virus and when young I numerous contacts with chicken and suffered from warts.

[evan_au]

I had numerous contacts with chicken and suffered from warts

- Many children eat eggs.
- Many children have warts.
- That does not mean that eggs cause warts!

This type of observation is very prone to "Confirmation Bias". You ate eggs and had warts, and your friend did too. That proves it! Despite the fact that some of your other friends did not fit this pattern.

In science, this is summed up by "Association does not prove Causation".
- which means that "an association between eating eggs and having warts does not prove that eating eggs causes warts".

In science, a better design of an observational study would be to:
- interview many children
- record whether they had warts
- record whether they ate eggs
- see if warts were more common in the egg-eaters than the non-egg eaters
- If you wanted to get complicated, you could determine how many warts they had, and how often they ate eggs
- Then you look at a "Dose-Response Curve", to see if eating more eggs causes more warts.

But an even better study is to randomly assign children to one of two groups:
- One group eats eggs every day
- Another group has no eggs
- Someone checks them for warts (without knowing whether they ate eggs or not)
- Then you do the comparison of egg eaters vs non-egg-eaters
- Only, eggs are good for you, and warts are generally not so harmful, so it would be unethical to deprive children of eggs

I think you can be quite sure that eating boiled eggs doesn't cause warts.
- Viruses are very choosey about their hosts, and I find it highly unlikely that a virus would affect human skin and hens eggs
- and even more unlikely it would survive boiling for 5 minutes!

[syhprum (OP)]

Thank you for your guide as to how the matter should be researched, I was rather hoping that some research had been done into the matter.

[Bored chemist]

There a common belief that drinking the water in which eggs have been boiled causes warts.
this is entirely plausible as many life forms have been found that will survive 100°C, it is now known that warts at caused by a virus and when young I numerous contacts with chicken and suffered from warts.

Do you realise that you contradict yourself there?
"There a common belief that drinking the water in which eggs have been boiled causes warts.
this is entirely plausible"
and " it is now known that warts at caused by a virus "
Well, which is it? eggy water or a virus?
 It can't be both.

[syhprum (OP)]

I must take care to make my writings "bored chemist proof", I won't bother re-writing it  but merely state that what I intended to ask was whether the viruses that cause warts could like the other sixty or so viruses that can be transmitted to us from birds can survive boiling, Wiki says no.