Comment on There may be an existing solution to the chronic disease crisis, but a disabled patient seems to be the only person motivated enough to try to obtain it. And they've been failing going at it alone.

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Lumisal@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I mean, from what I read there, it send the problem is the messaging.

If I got an email that said “How badly do you want a cure for yourself or your loved ones? What are you willing to do for it?” I’d automatically assume it’s a scam, spam, or both.

Why? Because

A) it doesn’t specify immediately what the cure is for, and B) that kind of writing style is used by scammers constantly.

The fact that the rant does sound like those of conspiracy theorists (even though I personally don’t believe it’s completely untrue) doesn’t help, because you know who else uses language exactly like that?

Scammers. You know how many snake oil sales people do the “big pharma doesn’t want you to know X thing will cure you!”.

The last terrible part of the messaging is that it implies a potential cure all has been discovered.

Except, anyone with even basic biological knowledge would know that’s not the case.

Even if a panacea type microbiome WAS discord, it won’t cure everything. Cancer is one immediate example. It already would be impossible for it to prevent many diseases. Viruses for example that enter through the sinuses, or again, cancers caused by viruses. Heck even then something like norovirus would still wreck you too.

This sounds more like someone who knows some knowledge but isn’t an actual expert in it being used by possibly a scammer (or someone using some underhanded methods to raise legitimate good funding).

Not to mention it’s a big ask to strangers who probably don’t even know what a microbiome is. And that’s not even getting into how the field has already been filled with scammers for years ( “take L. Bacillus and it’ll cure your arthritis!” as one example of thousands).

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