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Researchers identify new leprosy bacterium
EUREKA ALERT/M. D. Anderson ^
| Nov. 24, 2008
| Scott Merville
Posted on 12/01/2008 2:49:11 PM PST by AuntB
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To: SumProVita
“Im a moral conservative too. ;-)”
Does it get you in as much trouble as it gets me? :-)
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posted on
12/01/2008 4:44:58 PM PST
by
Sola Veritas
(Trying to speak truth - not always with the best grammar or spelling)
To: Sola Veritas
Let’s just say it gives me a real challenge with various people...and I love a good challenge.
;-)
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posted on
12/01/2008 4:50:23 PM PST
by
SumProVita
(Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified DeCartes))
To: B4Ranch
"Why do you bother with the post if you dont wish to explain the reasons behind it?"
Because we can post an opinion on FreeRepublic without having to explain it. Explaining an opinion is an option, not a requirement.
If you're not asking for an explanation then the comment doesn't apply to you, so calm down yourself.
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posted on
12/01/2008 9:45:56 PM PST
by
gpk9
To: Sola Veritas; Sherman Logan
Like I said, they’ll never be able to make said bacteria cause leprosy in properly controlled scientific experimentation. Ever.
It being the cause of leprosy and a “killer bacteria” is pure speculation. Pure conjecture. Absolutely no proof whatever, and there never will be.
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posted on
12/01/2008 9:50:15 PM PST
by
gpk9
To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
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posted on
12/01/2008 10:01:21 PM PST
by
LucyT
To: Sola Veritas
"Look up and read about Kochs Postulates."
I know all about Kock's Postulates. One of them states explicitly that a suspected organism must reproduce the illness consistently, over and over again, in properly controlled scientific experimentation.
Said bacteria will NEVER reproduce leprosy in properly controlled scientific experimentation, so it fails Koch's Postulates.
"The germ theory of disease has been, using scientific methodology, been proven time and time again in real time."
No, it absolutely has not. The germ theory has NEVER been proven in properly controlled scientific experimentation.
That's WHY it's still a theory. It NEVER has been proven. EVER.
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posted on
12/01/2008 10:05:51 PM PST
by
gpk9
To: gpk9
“No, it absolutely has not. The germ theory has NEVER been proven in properly controlled scientific experimentation.”
You sound like a member of Mary Baker Eddy’s cult. If you are, just admit it and stop wasting good people’s time with ridiculous assertions.
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posted on
12/02/2008 7:43:47 AM PST
by
Sola Veritas
(Trying to speak truth - not always with the best grammar or spelling)
To: Sola Veritas
"You sound like a member of Mary Baker Eddys cult. If you are, just admit it and stop wasting good peoples time with ridiculous assertions."
Typical response from medical-brainwashed types. You types have no proof for your beliefs. There is no proof for your beliefs. You've been operating for over 150 years on unproven and unprovable foolish ridiculous theories. You can't give a credible response because you have nothing to give a credible response with, so you resort to attacking the person. I've seen it more times than I can count.
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posted on
12/02/2008 8:02:14 AM PST
by
gpk9
To: gpk9; All
“Typical response from medical-brainwashed types.”
Yep, you are a Christ-Scientist cultist. I don’t give you a response because it isn’t worth the time. Like I said, leave good people alone.
Oh, and for the record. I don’t have a very high opinion of most in the medical field - but not for your silly reasons.
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posted on
12/02/2008 8:52:53 AM PST
by
Sola Veritas
(Trying to speak truth - not always with the best grammar or spelling)
To: 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 3pools; 3rdcanyon; 4Freedom; 4ourprogeny; 7.62 x 51mm; ..
To: AuntB
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posted on
12/02/2008 11:37:33 AM PST
by
cricket
(America's Freedom Rings! Thank You ~ U..S.A. Military~/)
To: gpk9
Dude, they can type bacteria. They can do detailed structural and genetic studies of it. They can identify the actions or toxins that result in the disease symptoms.
If you don’t believe me, go find some Clostridium Tetanii and have at it.
Normally, I fully support freedom of speech no matter how much of a whack job. But your opinions threaten to throw medical technology back 300 years. And YOU - yes YOU YOURSELF - bear the responsibility for the social chaos that might result.
So you should probably put a lid on it. Odds are very high that someone you know or love has been saved in the past by the same technologies you are criticizing hear. In other words, STFU.
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posted on
12/02/2008 11:42:21 AM PST
by
djf
(...heard about a couple livin in the USA, he said they traded in their baby for a Chevrolet...)
To: Sola Veritas
“If you dont think bacteria have been definitively linked to disease, then you wouldnt mind if I injected you with a small amount of Yersia pestis. Then when you develop bubonic or septicemic plague in a week or so, it wont be my fault.....it just happened.”
Was going to suggest the same thing, except with anthrax or weaponized small pox...
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posted on
12/02/2008 11:53:02 AM PST
by
piytar
To: piytar
“Was going to suggest the same thing, except with anthrax or weaponized small pox...”
It wouldn’t even need to be weaponized if the person was not already immune. Actually, one of the hemorragic viruses (like ebola) would also do the trick. Chances of someone being immune to them is remote.
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posted on
12/02/2008 3:06:16 PM PST
by
Sola Veritas
(Trying to speak truth - not always with the best grammar or spelling)
To: gubamyster; AuntB
Another pale horse rider from across the southern border bump.
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posted on
12/02/2008 9:56:18 PM PST
by
exhaustedmomma
(Way to go BARNEY!! Barney for White House Press Secretary.)
To: AuntB
Very interesting. They're calling it
Mycobacterium lepromatosis. It's almost
M. leprae but not quite. That may explain some of the variability noticed in treatment across infected populations.
I did a little work with the Mycobacteria long ago in my path lab days. It was all fun until some knucklehead - not me - dropped a petri dish of the stuff on the floor. Ever see what an autoclave does to a pair of tennis shoes?
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