> Especially nerds, who—let’s admit it—are amongst the world’s worst at owning their own screwups. Honestly, if some fiery language is the worst those muppets have to deal with, they don’t know how lucky they are.

I was about to just look over this, but then this gave me a chuckle as I agree with you.

To answer your question, no, because I never went into Medicine, I was in diagnostics. I find Medicine, especially in the West, to be a costly and bureaucratic nightmare imposed over what I believe is at odds with a Person's Health--be it mental, or physical. None of my work did anything but confirm or deny a physicians inquiry, and thus I can operate in an unbiased and neutral position: this malady does or doesn't exist in the host, what you do with that information is out of my control.

And it is that vein that I operate from, if successful we could garner insight from these medical journals from China in order to re-create their work and bring it into a domain beyond the Medical Industrial Complex and offer a 3rd choice to those who see fit to explore those options. Will people get hurt or killed in the process, sure, of course they will, but people die of sports injuries all the time and yet Nike is never held liable for pre-mature torn ligaments or spine injuries, so why should this be any different? Humans have agency, and free will; that should include experimenting on themselves and have to deal with the consequences therein should it not work out, ideally they publish these findings to help others not make that mistake.

People can and will experiment on themselves, at least if this does take place you can accelerate the process to refine it in such a way that the Human Species can al benefit, rather than just the affluent Westerner you seem to be touting as the apex of all Humans. Western Medicine is broken, if only because it neglects the importance of preventative medicine, very little is understood about how something so critical like the microbiome in your stomach effects everything from neurological disorders to immunological responses, and yet many cultures, western and eastern alike, advocate for eating fermented foods to do so, others promote fasting as religious practices to reset and pause or correct the rate of metabolism etc... And yet, Western medicine, which is to say allopathic medicine dismisses that entirely for the most part and advocates for furthering its pharmacologic dystopia despite the very obvious crimes it has enabled--Purdue's opioid epidemic is just one of the very many in the US' short medical History.

Your argument is very circular, and your rhetoric meandering, but I understand what you are saying; I just think you are applying 20th century thinking to 21st Century mode of operation. Its akin to saying that LibGen is putting the public in danger because it makes all the scientific journals at the hands of the unwashed masses who cannot grasp or come to understand what those of us who have spent time in academia know.

Its elitist thinking, that quite frankly turned me off entirely to the formal Education process: despite getting honours' and letters of recommendation throughout my Undergrad to encourage me to further my studies, I don't even like looking at my 'accomplishments' from that period in a positive light, as I see it as an unrecoverable loss of time, ambition and motivation. I personally feel I could have done so much more with that time.

Lastly, as this will have to be my last response to this as it has taken far too much of my time already: check out a series on Netflix called UnNatural Selection [1], it highlights the Biohacker community and how it operates (footage from Biohack the World conference is seen), but also shows that the need for traditional medicine still exists and will continue to be as well, but it also underpins the personal, financial and emotional costs it has on the People who suffer from it.

Its an awesome 4 episode series, if you have time you can also look at Dr. Zayner's 'brazen' attempt [2] to be the first to alter his entire microbiome, all while being called a fool and reckless endangerment to public safety--and now not only is he much better, but I personally witnessed as the narrative of probiotic use become extremely more prevalent in that time-frame in US MSM and the amount of Kombucha/Kefer companies has followed in suit.

Just imagine what we as Health Scientists can do to the Human Species' and by extension the Human Condition if we did this on many facets?

1: https://www.netflix.com/title/80208910

2: https://www.theverge.com/2016/5/4/11581994/fmt-fecal-matter-...