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When a possible link between gut biomes and disease progression was first proposed, the response by the established science was pretty harsh. That people study
by ChuckMcM 6y ago
When a possible link between gut biomes and disease progression was first proposed, the response by the established science was pretty harsh.
That people studying these links persisted and have created many reproducible experiments that demonstrate the connection is a testament both to perseverance and to science.
When people try to argue that science is "people making things up." as a reason for disbelieving science that challenges their beliefs, I use this example of fecal transplants as a real world case of how scientists challenge, confront, debate, and incorporate changes into their world views through process, review, and reproduction.
- quercusa 6y agoSame story for bacteria and stomach ulcers.
- ChuckMcM 6y agoAnd I know at least one researcher who started looking more deeply into the impact of the gut biome on health because of the demonstrated link between bacteria and ulcers. At some point, I would expect a fecal sample/biome to be part of one's periodic physical so that we could build a data set of biomes + medical history database that is a bit more comprehensive than the voluntary ones that exist today.
- mirekrusin 6y agoIs that true? Hitler was doing it, so it must have been known for a while.