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Not my area of expertise but as far as I can tell RFK's theory that you let bird flu spread and you find magically immune birds ... doesn't appear to have any s
by duxup 2y ago
Not my area of expertise but as far as I can tell RFK's theory that you let bird flu spread and you find magically immune birds ... doesn't appear to have any science backing it. Let alone questions about if you did find some magical immunity... nothing to indicate if it even helps the next season.
In fact efforts to DO this thing / find those birds who are immune have failed at every turn. Understandably, researchers (oh wait we're cutting research) have been trying to do this but haven't not found any indications this immunity is a thing.
RFK's theory seems to be just BS he got from his head ...
- morkalork 2y agoI'm no biologist but I saw an interesting comment elsewhere that pointed out: Letting too many chickens die now and rebuilding the population in farms from the few survivors will create a genetic bottleneck that will leave them even more susceptible to the next virus that comes along.
- duxup 2y agoI can't find the article when I was googling around but one researcher who was studying survivors did note that they didn't seem to be anymore immune to anything else / no clear advantage to that bird vs any other bird.
- morkalork 2y agoI just have to say that it's a little ironic to see a conservative Republican go with the argument "evolution will fix it"
- fanatic2pope 2y agoWell I mean this is the essence of this neo-Lysenkoism isn't it? The adoption of scientific policy based on ideological alignment rather than merit.