Scientists are investigating a new group of substance called antimicrobial peptides. If two or three peptides are used simultaneously, pathogens cannot develop resistance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial_peptides https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial_peptides Scientists say that we could be heading towards a 'post antibiotic' era, where diseases that once killed, will once again start killing. --- <sharelong60@...> wrote : salyavin, you wrote that the wonder of science is that it's fallible and improving all the time. I agree simply because I think that's true of everything and everyone on our planet. AND, I think science has become corrupt and almost irrelevant, the latter mainly because it moves so slowly. In these days of ever speedy change, the systems that survive are the ones that can provide solutions quickly. As an example, I point to the ebola crisis. People are dying while science is bogged down, not only in its own machinations, but in the rusty gears of politics and economics. On Friday, August 22, 2014 2:13 AM, salyavin808 <[email protected]> wrote: ---In [email protected], <noozguru@...> wrote : On 08/21/2014 12:14 PM, salyavin808 wrote: ---In [email protected] mailto:[email protected], <noozguru@...> mailto:noozguru@... wrote : On 08/21/2014 10:09 AM, salyavin808 wrote: Doesn't your Royal Family use homeopathy? Oh well, it must be true then. I suppose wearing a crown makes you immune from errors of reasoning. Well, I was kidding you, of course. Even Turq once disagreed with Curtis anti-homeopathic stance because he had actually found a homeopathic substance useful. There's something to the science even if it twiddles the mind of a high school trained scientist. That's the point, there is nothing to the science. That's why we do science, to work out what's real from what isn't, there's nothing like blind testing to give the lie to dodgy claims. Like we did with astrology and all sorts of other nonsense. Check the periodic table posted by MJ earlier for details. :-D Problem is the naysayers are "often reviewing a movie without having seen it." These ideas sound wacky to them until the "white coats" adopt it for their mainstream medicine (as has happened with some of ayurveda). = You actually can get homeopathy on the National Health in the UK but there is a campaign to stop it as using tax payers money to fund something you can demonstrate is ineffective when there are so many people with health problems that simply drinking water given to you by someone friendly won't cure, the money should go to effective and tested treatments. = I would say that until something is tested it shouldn't be described as medicine (this happens here anyway) if ayurvedic treatments survive double blind tests then yes, they should be included in public health programmes. But as it is it's not a system of knowledge but a set of folk beliefs, some of which are known to be seriously dangerous. Testing is expensive though so I fall back on my trusty old maxim: try ayurveda until there is something wrong with you, then go see a proper doctor.
