I don't know much at all about prions, so take this with a large grain of salt, but it seems to me that most -- if not all -- of the arguments against viruses b

I don't know much at all about prions, so take this with a large grain of salt, but it seems to me that most -- if not all -- of the arguments against viruses being living organisms apply to prions. In the case of prions, the data is just in the form of a malformed protein, rather than a snippet of RNA or DNA. There may be something about them that I don't know that negates one or more of those arguments, though.