Anytime you hear a republican complain about spending research money on some seemingly silly thing remember this research. A lot of research sounds weird and pointless from the outside, but you don't know what it might build up to.

Anything that eats insects is friend--lizards, birds, spiders, toddlers. All are friend.

Uhh... pretty sure this is like the 10,000th cure taken from nature? Star Trek was immitating life for that plot... Why are people so god damn ignorant to reality?

Lyme, no "s"

I think it's more sci-fi that there was this one guy who's blood was tapped for decades to prevent miscarriages all over the world (blood type incompatibilities between universal donor mothers and the fetuses they carried).

Frogs cure cancer.

https://newatlas.com/cancer/frog-reptile-microbes-cancer/

And yet, I bet that a lot of morons would rather go "extreme Paleo" and gnaw on a lizard rather than getting a little injection.

Eastern fence lizard

lives in California and has poison blood

You really expect me to believe this shit?