An Enlightenment thinker rejected the scheme but retained belief in individual Jewish doctor murder.

Evidence

While Feijóo therefore discounted the idea that there was a systematic campaign of medical murder, he simply could not bring himself to discount its existence and was prepared to endorse its practice by individual judeoconverso doctors. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 426

Categorization

  • XREF: Echoes the modern dynamic where people hold residues of a disproven stereotype (‘not all of them, but some…’) despite conceding the systemic case collapses; ties to cognitive-contamination research on implicit bias.