The fact that his TEDx Talk had 0.2% of the views of her TED Talk and he actually knows what he is talking about tells you everything you need to know about TED

The fact that his TEDx Talk had 0.2% of the views of her TED Talk and he actually knows what he is talking about tells you everything you need to know about TED Talks. Let me add some substance to my comment. I grew fungi for a living and my boss bought an anaerobic chamber to try and find fungi that like no oxygen or low oxygen (microaerophilic) environments. Think glove box with thick plexiglass walls and all that. Even using lake sediments etc., we really couldn’t find any that grew or liked it at all, or at least before the plates dried out over several weeks. Fungi are aerobic organisms for the most part. They love oxygen. And switching from aerobic respiration to anaerobic drastically reduces how fast something can grow. An old rule of thumb quoted is aerobic processes produce up to 38 ATP per glucose, anaerobic processes yield only 2 ATP per glucose. I assume in a coffin or buried underground, oxygen is gone very quickly from the bacterial bloom. So I don’t understand how her mushroom suit idea was ever going to work. You weren’t going to sprout a big flush of oyster mushrooms out of your body, it was just a fantasy like most TED talks. It’s science junk food.