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“I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.” - Rich Feynman

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  • Well, vaccines are very different than antibiotics. While there was the first new antibiotic made in ages earlier this year that’s highly selective for specific bacteria, it only works against gram-negative bacterial cells. C. diff is gram-positive and has been an issue for a long time. It’s notorious for it’s recurrence rate as it’s great at surviving conditions which kill most bacteria. It infects 500,000 people each year, with 20%+ of them being a reoccurring infection. Since new antibiotics are very tough to engineer, a vaccine makes way more sense and it will provide treatment for half a million people annually moving forward!













  • I mean, the research paper from the study doesn’t reference dopamine at all. It focuses on electric pulses associated with visual interpretations of the environment. It does reference a reward system stating “arguably the main purpose of extracting the underlying structure of temporal sequences is to predict what is likely to happen next in order to choose appropriate actions and maximize reward.” But it appears as if this is variable for each situation for each participant. Nonetheless, I like where your head’s at, I just don’t see it being associated with the analysis.






















  • In part, according to one of the head researchers, “compared to prior studies that relied solely on epidemiological data, we integrated multiple layers of information, including epidemiological data, conventional metabolic biomarkers, and cutting-edge metabolomics”.

    So in addition to finding the metadata, they also dug into the biomarkers present, which the molecular pathways are already known in detail. On top of this, metabolomics interpreted the chemical processes involving metabolites, the small molecule substrates, intermediates, and products of cell metabolism. Together, these aspects helped demonstrate the molecular consequences of ingesting animal products. The epidemiological layer assessed the incidence rate of developing T2D and then investigated how many involved the consumption of animal products for the individuals.

    This being the case, it appears to be more than just correlation, as once the metadata was found, the team investigated the causation of the metadata’s findings.