The brain worm story came up during a divorce trial. He argued that the worm lowered his income potential and he should pay less alimony.

Also he didn't have an actual worm munching at his brain. What he had was a tapeworm cyst. When a tapeworm egg is ingested they hatch as larvae that will pass through the intestinal wall and migrate, usually to the muscles, where they form these cysts. If something eats the meat with the cyst then the worm will pop out and turn into an adult. Now the worms don't really control where they will end up so sometimes they can end up in the brain or the liver or other organs. The cyst can remain for a few years but eventually it will die.

The tapeworm egg could have ended up in his gut in a few ways. He could have had an adult tapeworm and picked up some of the eggs it lays by not washing his hands properly. He could have eaten vegetables that were fertilized with human feces and which were not washed properly. He could have ate someone's butthole and that person had a tapeworm.

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Not sure what your point is, that we have no experts anymore? The institutions should still be run by experts.

The Peter principle states that a person who is competent at their job will earn a promotion to a position that requires different skills. If the promoted person lacks the skills required for the new role, they will be incompetent at the new level, and will not be promoted again.

Does not check out. People keep failing upwards, often to the very top. 🥹

Gross incompetence makes even more sense.

Yes, it was foreseeable that the MAGA fascists would ruthlessly enrich themselves, and also that there was an immediate danger they would do everything in their power to establish a full-fledged autocracy in place of the usual oligarchy with a veneer of democracy -which is exactly what they are doing.

Nevertheless, I think the degree of ruthlessness with which these criminals are operating caught the world completely off guard: Many countries, for example, followed the guidelines issued by the CDC right up until the very end - regarding countless medical procedures, such as preventing infections with nosocomial pathogens during catheter insertion, etc.

No one could have foreseen that this globally important organization would be completely and senselessly dismantled -which is exactly what this deranged conspiracy theorist, who was appointed secretary of health without any expertise whatsoever, did: The CDC effectively no longer exists; at any rate, it is now merely a shadow of its former self, as countless scientists were simply fired for trying to oppose the outrageous nonsense that Kennedy is propagating - this no longer has the slightest connection to science, which is why no reputable scientist can support this course of action.

It is simply utter madness! Now the world must reorganize itself, which will take years, if not decades.

And this is just one of countless crimes this terrorist regime is committing against humanity. It is plunging the world into chaos so that the billionaires behind this regime can enrich themselves even more than they already do - by brute force, by nothing but the law of the jungle.

All of this results in a regression of civilization and robs humanity of achievements that took a very long time to build - from international law to climate protection agreements, humanitarian efforts, and international cooperation in the scientific sector.

I don’t think anyone could have expected this to happen, because it is nothing short of insanity.

I don’t want to speak for the person you replied to but I just want to point out that this was probably a joke, with the implication being that the CDC is currently ineffective due to current administration policies, and aligning with your viewpoint.

This is unrelated to the topic, but I must ask.

Why do you separate your sentences with line breaks?

It's incredibly awkward and unnecessary.

Thanks.

No, this is the guy who drinks raw milk in a hot tub with Kid Rock after working out in a sauna with his jeans on. Don't make him sound weird.

OH YEAH

Kool-aid man what the fuck fix that wall before my parents get home

There are entire charitable organizations devoted to individual diarrhea diseases

Okay, fine. Yes, those are diseases that are monitored. But explosive diarrhea is a symptom, not a disease. Sometimes people just get the runs for any number of reasons.

That's why saying there was an increase in "explosive diarrhea" sounds odd. Public health agencies generally monitor diseases that cause diarrhea, not the symptom itself in isolation.

It's like saying there was an increase in fevers during the height of COVID, or a spike in people feeling pain after breaking a bone. Those are symptoms of underlying conditions, not the thing that's actually being tracked.

Maybe I'm missing some context, but the wording still strikes me as strange.