defeating the flu?
February 22, 2009
recently, scientists have begun lab studies on a super-medicine that will defeat the flu. but besides the obvious problems like side effects, high cost, and ultimately having much of the world turning into zombies tryign to kill will smith, is this worth it?
the way i look at it, the best medicine for the flu is our own bodies antibodies, and by creating newer vaccines, scientists are only perpetuating natural selection until their super-cure is defeated by a super-super-flu. so where does this all end? new vaccines only lead to stronger strains of viruses so couldn’t it be argued that if we stop now we can just leave the flu as it is instead of allowing it to gain strength? at what point do these vaccines stop becoming the cure and become the problem?
the actual article can be found here
And yes, i did just watch I am Legend
February 22, 2009 at 10:36 pm
“A superdrug that protects against all the most deadly types of flu… ”
first sentence assumption – ‘all deadly types of flu’
they dont know how other strains of flu’s are going to develop, who knows what scientist labels a disease as non deadly, and then it does something completely ridiculous in our body, some minuscule little molecule that fits into an enzyme in a way their computers didnt calculate and it kills us, or better yet, turns all the worlds carnivores into floating heads Doom 2 style.
February 23, 2009 at 9:13 pm
exactly, they cant predict the mutations that will inevitably occur