The Story of Autoimmune Therapies Since November, 2009. Part 1
I have read a lot of quite strong worded, and very definite, comments about me or Autoimmune Therapies, often by people who have never met me. I have to admit that I avoid public forums on the subject...
View ArticlePart II: Childhood and a start to explaining why it made me receptive to the...
I, like many I suspect, who have read the basics of my story, have long wondered why I, alone amongst all those people who wrote or read the same research I read actually acted on it. Part of writing...
View ArticlePart III: Childhood experiences that made me receptive to the hygiene...
After two thoroughly miserable, highly-allergic years in that bastion of open-minded, secular humanism, Texas, we moved to California. The original plan was to move to Oregon, but our car had other...
View ArticleHiatus from Posting for a while
Hi, sorry, but we are in the middle of some big activities, including moving. While that is going on I and my advisory board have decided AIT should stop press contacts and of course blog posts. Once...
View ArticleThe context of helminthic therapy and the environmental diseases it can be...
I want to emphasise that I believe what we are doing exists in a much broader, well-established context. The diseases we are trying to work with are all environmental in origin. The hygiene hypothesis...
View ArticleWhat a word means
When I still lived in the US and Sani Abacha was the suddenly dead president of Nigeria, and it was therefore discovered he had looted billions for him and his family from the Nigerian treasury, some...
View ArticlePart 4: The Story of “A”
This is, as the title suggests, one in a series of posts, almost entirely derived from emails from her family that they send me periodically to keep us up-to-date. At the end of this post, and in a few...
View ArticleFacebook Page for Helminthic Therapy
Hi, we have long had a well maintained and regularly updated FB page, fed in part via our Twitter account. It gets a lot of activity, daily, with links to news, etc., To visit go here, and if you just...
View ArticleOnly in America! Let’s hope so.
Patent: Further information: Association for Molecular Pathology, et al. v. United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. Methods to isolate and detect BRCA1 and BRCA2 (Breast cancer genes) were...
View ArticleAnother great result for Crohn’s, this time in an adult
In his words, edited to remove any identifying phrases or words: “Today marks exactly
View ArticleCoronado Trial Failures, so called, study design, corruption of medical...
I want to point out that the Coronado Biosciences TSO trials in the United States, and their results, or lack thereof, have nothing to do with our organisms or approach. We use a profoundly different...
View ArticlePatents, regulation, human behaviour, and Helminthic Therapy
Our mission statement, no I don’t like them either but they are helpful to keep everyone on the same page, is: To change the practice of medicine to incorporate the use of benign infectious organisms...
View ArticleIdea
How about a monument in space to our species. Earth facing. At least to warn our successors, decended from insects or some hive organism I hope, of the folly of mastery of technology when neglecting...
View ArticleTime to re-examine our slavish devotion to the scientific method
Someone sent me a link to some research on Psoriasis and it got me thinking again about the way science and particularly drug research is conducted, and its limitations with respect to complex systems...
View ArticleThank You Automattic for the Akismet Anti Spam Plugin
I wanted to thank Automattic, the developers of the Akismet anti comment-spam plugin for writing what is a very helpful tool for blocking comment spam on WordPress blogs. I forgot to mention that it is...
View ArticleNew direction for this blog
I have not had an editorial position for this blog, until now. No consistent direction or unifying theme for what to say except in general terms to speak about helminthic therapy and anything that...
View ArticleReading research for non-scientists – Part 1 of a Series
Overview I taught myself how to read science, even going so far as to dive into statistics so I could understand what “p” meant. I did so originally so that I could understand the hygiene hypothesis,...
View ArticleWhat is the difference between a cure and remission?
I am posting this because I often find myself telling people that helminthic therapy, though it very likely could make you completely well, cannot cure you. The issue is semantics, but it is important...
View ArticleWhat is Science? – Part 2 of a Series
Before we start reading scientific papers we should all agree what science is. We all know what science is, right? So what is it? From the Oxford English Dictionary (Shorter) “Theoretical perception of...
View ArticleWhere science is published and how to find it – Part 3 in a Series
To understand how to find and consume science, particularly on the topic of medicine, one has to understand how it is produced and published, and some of its past. Science has not always existed, nor...
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