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I just don’t think wild speculation about science is fun. What is fun to me about science is fact based exploration. Hypothesis is great and conjecture has its

I just don’t think wild speculation about science is fun. What is fun to me about science is fact based exploration. Hypothesis is great and conjecture has its place, but wild conjecture is not fun to me. You can feel otherwise and that’s okay!

toomuchtodo 7y ago
I don't believe my original comment was wild conjecture (although it did lack a citation how I arrived at the hypothesis), but in keeping with your ideals as it relates to putting forth a thesis in a public forum: > We believe that HSV1 is a major contributory factor for Alzheimer’s disease and that it enters the brains of elderly people as their immune system declines with age. It then establishes a latent (dormant) infection, from which it is reactivated by events such as stress, a reduced immune system and brain inflammation induced by infection by other microbes. > Excitingly, successful prevention of Alzheimer’s disease by use of specific anti-herpes agents has now been demonstrated in a large-scale population study in Taiwan. Hopefully, information in other countries, if available, will yield similar results. https://theconversation.com/alzheimers-disease-mounting-evidence-that-herpes-virus-is-a-cause-104943 https://theconversation.com/alzheimers-disease-mounting-evid... (Alzheimer’s disease: mounting evidence that herpes virus is a cause) The author of the post is Ruth Itzhaki, Professor Emeritus of Molecular Neurobiology, University of Manchester This (in my opinion) would lead a reasonable person to believe that an HSV-1 vaccine would prevent the onset of Alzheimer’s (through the prevention of an HSV-1 infection), in a similar fashion to how the HPV vaccine prevents (among other cancers) cervical cancer. I hope you have found some value in this subthread.
- TaylorAlexander 7y ago
  Ah, you're probably right. I'm sorry, I believe I misunderstood. Well it would be great to figure out a vaccine for HSV-1 and HSV-2.
  - toomuchtodo 7y ago
    No apologies necessary, I frequently forget that I can’t assume context is known and should be providing more citations upfront.

toomuchtodo 7y ago

I don't believe my original comment was wild conjecture (although it did lack a citation how I arrived at the hypothesis), but in keeping with your ideals as it relates to putting forth a thesis in a public forum: > We believe that HSV1 is a major contributory factor for Alzheimer’s disease and that it enters the brains of elderly people as their immune system declines with age. It then establishes a latent (dormant) infection, from which it is reactivated by events such as stress, a reduced immune system and brain inflammation induced by infection by other microbes. > Excitingly, successful prevention of Alzheimer’s disease by use of specific anti-herpes agents has now been demonstrated in a large-scale population study in Taiwan. Hopefully, information in other countries, if available, will yield similar results. https://theconversation.com/alzheimers-disease-mounting-evidence-that-herpes-virus-is-a-cause-104943 https://theconversation.com/alzheimers-disease-mounting-evid... (Alzheimer’s disease: mounting evidence that herpes virus is a cause) The author of the post is Ruth Itzhaki, Professor Emeritus of Molecular Neurobiology, University of Manchester This (in my opinion) would lead a reasonable person to believe that an HSV-1 vaccine would prevent the onset of Alzheimer’s (through the prevention of an HSV-1 infection), in a similar fashion to how the HPV vaccine prevents (among other cancers) cervical cancer. I hope you have found some value in this subthread.

TaylorAlexander 7y ago
Ah, you're probably right. I'm sorry, I believe I misunderstood. Well it would be great to figure out a vaccine for HSV-1 and HSV-2.
- toomuchtodo 7y ago
  No apologies necessary, I frequently forget that I can’t assume context is known and should be providing more citations upfront.