Hi, Folks -

Someone some time ago mentioned that at the scene of most any automobile crash accident you're likely to find one or more hub caps. Does this prove "Hub caps cause accidents"...?

No. :) It's correlation but not proof of causation.

Likewise with prions and Alzheimer's.

Our own CrystalRiver brought something to our attention in 2017:

Dr. Lawrence Broxmeyer MD - Mad Cow, Scrapie & Alzheimer’s
CrystalRiver -- Tuesday, 9-May-2017 09:12:58

CrystalRiver's post included this abstract (my bolding), found here:

https://rense.com//general96/madcowbrox.html

Dr. Lawrence Broxmeyer MD

Research Article: Journal of MPE Molecular
Pathological Epidemiology 2017 Vol. 3 No. 3: 3
5-9-17

Abstract

The TSE’S or transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, include bovine spongiform encephalopathy (also called BSE or “mad cow disease”), Creutzfeldt­Jakob disease (CJD) in humans, and “scrapie” in sheep or goats (caprinespongiform encephalopathy). They remain a mystery, their cause still hotly debated. Current mad cow diagnosis lies solely in the detection of late appearing “prions”, an acronym for hypothesized, geneless, misfolded proteins, somehow claimed to cause the disease. Yet laboratory preparations of prions contain other things, which could include unidentified bacteria or viruses. And the only real evidence that prion originator Stanley Prusiner had in his original paper that the disease agent behind “Scrapie” in sheep and goats was devoid of DNA or RNA­ was based upon the fact that he couldn’t find any. Furthermore, the rigors of prion purification alone, might, in and of themselves, have killed any causative microorganism and Heino Dringer, who did pioneer work on their nature,candidly predicts “it will turn out that the prion concept is wrong.” Roels and Walravens as well as Hartly tracedMad Cow to Mycobacterium bovis. Moreover, epidemiologic maps of the origins and peak incidence of Mad Cow in the UK, suggestively match those of England’s areas of highest bovine tuberculosis, the Southwest. The neurotaxic potential of bovine tuberculosis has for some time been well known. By 1911 Alois Alzheimer called attention to “a characteristic condition of the cortical tissue which Fischer referred to as ‘spongy cortical wasting”in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). But behind AD, Fischer suspected a microbe called Streptothrix which was constantly being mistaken and confused for tuberculosis. Our present investigation of the TSEs clearly shows cell-wall-deficient (CWD) tubercular mycobacteria present, verified by molecular analysis, ELISA, PCR and microscopy to cause spongiform encephalopathy.

Keywords: Prions; Scrapie; The Spongiform Encephalopathies; Alzheimer’s disease; The etiology of Alzheimer’s Disease; Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex

Received: April 05, 2017; Accepted: April 27, 2017; Published: April 29, 2017

So...as of 2017, the cause of Alzheimer's was unknown and being hotly debated.

Per Wikipedia: "The word prion derives from "proteinaceous infectious particle".[4][5][6] The hypothesized role of a protein as an infectious agent stands in contrast to all other known infectious agents such as viroids, viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites, all of which contain nucleic acids (DNA, RNA, or both)."

In other words, someone made up the word 'prion' and has posited its role (perhaps even its existence) as something that "must be" involved in certain disease states.

Captain Queeg in "The Caine Mutiny": "So I PROVED by LOGIC AND REASON, that somebody "HAD TO HAVE STOLEN THE STRAWBERRIES!"

Let's ponder these things when someone tells us authoritatively that a zombie apocalypse will be coming because the vaccines will program our bodies to create dreaded prions.

--hobie

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