Liberty, service members do not set US policy.
If you aren't happy with some of the US's military actions, the blame lies with politicians and the electorate itself, not with the common soldier, sailor, marine, or airman.
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Thank You for Your Service?
by Liberty93 inthank you for your service?by laurence m. vance.
recently by laurence m. vance: the warmongers lexicon.
it is without question that americans are in love with the military.
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Thank You for Your Service?
by Liberty93 inthank you for your service?by laurence m. vance.
recently by laurence m. vance: the warmongers lexicon.
it is without question that americans are in love with the military.
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botchtowersociety
I'm proud of our honorable men and women in uniform. Because of their service, Mr. Vance is free to write his essays.
Amen.
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Can Cannibals be Christian?
by startingover ini got this from a local paper.
i say keep your religion to yourself and leave these people alone.
can cannibals be christian?
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botchtowersociety
Makes me think of a video put up by LeavingWT not too long ago.
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Has anyone heard about/tried helminthic therapy?
by slimboyfat ini have been feeling very bad for the past few months with my health and i have been looking around for alternatives from what the doctors offer which is surgery or more dangerous drugs.
i came across helminthic therapy, which i had read about before but had not given much consideration to.
interest in it must have grown because there is lot more information available now than a couple of years ago when i last looked.
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botchtowersociety
But large scale double blind trials cost a lot of money and without the prospect of a patentable drugs being produced where is the incentive for large pharmaceuticals to finance it?
With experimental therapies, you don't do large studies until after you do small ones. That is actually ethical.
Drugs aren't the only patentable things. Therapeutic applications are also patentable. You cannot patent a naturally occuring substance, for example, but you can patent the discovery of an application for that substance, or the method for isolating and purifying it into a therapeutically usable form.
For those of you with autoimmune disorders, I recommend you investigate this substance.
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Has anyone heard about/tried helminthic therapy?
by slimboyfat ini have been feeling very bad for the past few months with my health and i have been looking around for alternatives from what the doctors offer which is surgery or more dangerous drugs.
i came across helminthic therapy, which i had read about before but had not given much consideration to.
interest in it must have grown because there is lot more information available now than a couple of years ago when i last looked.
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botchtowersociety
botchtowersociety I hope they do more research, but as many have pointed out how can drug companies make money from helminths? So where is the money for research going to come from?
If helminth therapy is actually beneficial, someone will make money on it, and it could be a small biotech we've never heard of. If it is beneficial, it might be possible to deliver the benefits without actually having to cause a parasitic infection through using some secondary means (along with the negative outcomes involved with that), perhaps by using a mimetic protein cocktail.
Besides, much early/basic research doesn't have a definite roadmap to profitability anyway. Some ambitious young researcher desiring to publish a ground shaking paper will likely lead the way.
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Has anyone heard about/tried helminthic therapy?
by slimboyfat ini have been feeling very bad for the past few months with my health and i have been looking around for alternatives from what the doctors offer which is surgery or more dangerous drugs.
i came across helminthic therapy, which i had read about before but had not given much consideration to.
interest in it must have grown because there is lot more information available now than a couple of years ago when i last looked.
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botchtowersociety
Caution is definitely advisable.
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Has anyone heard about/tried helminthic therapy?
by slimboyfat ini have been feeling very bad for the past few months with my health and i have been looking around for alternatives from what the doctors offer which is surgery or more dangerous drugs.
i came across helminthic therapy, which i had read about before but had not given much consideration to.
interest in it must have grown because there is lot more information available now than a couple of years ago when i last looked.
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botchtowersociety
I don't think it is crackpottery either, although there may be some crackpots at the margins. We need research, and well designed studies. We may end up rethinking many things, including how and when we use bacteriostatic and bacteriocidal antibiotics.
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Has anyone heard about/tried helminthic therapy?
by slimboyfat ini have been feeling very bad for the past few months with my health and i have been looking around for alternatives from what the doctors offer which is surgery or more dangerous drugs.
i came across helminthic therapy, which i had read about before but had not given much consideration to.
interest in it must have grown because there is lot more information available now than a couple of years ago when i last looked.
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botchtowersociety
Are you absolutely sure about this? For sure, there are outside bacteria in the digestive tract - but 10 times more nonhuman cells in total?
http://discovermagazine.com/2007/jun/your-body-is-a-planet
90% of the cells within us are not ours but microbes'.
You have 100 trillion cells in your body. 90 percent of them aren't human. Again, this is by number, not mass. Microbial cells are generally far smaller than human cells.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_microbiome
It is estimated that 500 to 1000 species of bacteria live in the human gut [3] and a roughly similar number on the skin. [4] [5] Bacterial cells are much smaller than human cells, and there are at least ten times as many bacteria as human cells in the body (approximately 10 14 versus 10 13 ). [6] [7] Though members of the flora are found on all surfaces exposed to the environment (on the skin and eyes, in the mouth, nose, small intestine), the vast majority of bacteria live in the large intestine.
I expect microbiomics to become a strong growth field in medical research. You could say we are symbiotes.
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Has anyone heard about/tried helminthic therapy?
by slimboyfat ini have been feeling very bad for the past few months with my health and i have been looking around for alternatives from what the doctors offer which is surgery or more dangerous drugs.
i came across helminthic therapy, which i had read about before but had not given much consideration to.
interest in it must have grown because there is lot more information available now than a couple of years ago when i last looked.
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botchtowersociety
Are you absolutely sure about this? For sure, there are outside bacteria in the digestive tract - but 10 times more nonhuman cells in total?
That is a fact.
Let me look it up....
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Has anyone heard about/tried helminthic therapy?
by slimboyfat ini have been feeling very bad for the past few months with my health and i have been looking around for alternatives from what the doctors offer which is surgery or more dangerous drugs.
i came across helminthic therapy, which i had read about before but had not given much consideration to.
interest in it must have grown because there is lot more information available now than a couple of years ago when i last looked.
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botchtowersociety
It is an interesting theory. Some of our autoimmune disorders may also be caused by a bad mix of bacteria in our bodies as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fecal_bacteriotherapy
By number, the human body contains 10x the nonhuman cells as it does human ones. To phrase it a different way, only 1/10th of the cells in your body, by number, are human.
It seems to me that we have evolved something of a an immune system relationship with these organisms. Any radical change in number or composition could throw an immune system optimized for that environment off balance.