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This is complete nonsense. Here's a decent debunking: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/science-sushi/2016/01/31/g...
It's funny how they can confidently exclude that as a reason, when not even a direct link between the virus and the increased cases of microcephaly has been shown.
This is complete nonsense. Here's a decent debunking: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/science-sushi/2016/01/31/g...
You call a decent debunking someone that's quoting what is everywhere else and against a redditor? I'm quoting and citing Dr Mae Wan Ho with studies from 2001 and 2014 that precede all this "buzz" stuff and happening now. If you are not interested in the topic I posted, then you may feel comfortable posting to someone in reddit. I'm wondering how your mind could change if your kid grows with a less than half sized br…
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You call a decent debunking someone that's quoting what is everywhere else and against a redditor? I'm quoting and citing Dr Mae Wan Ho with studies from 2001 and 2014 that precede all this "buzz" stuff and happening now. If you are not interested in the topic I posted, then you may feel comfortable posting to someone in reddit. I'm wondering how your mind could change if your kid grows with a less than half sized br…
You need to check out Dr. Mae-Wan Ho's track record. Her credibility is questionable.
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It's funny how they can confidently exclude that as a reason, when not even a direct link between the virus and the increased cases of microcephaly has been shown.
The assertion of this article could be proven with a test. That's the good thing about this.
Similarly, this mechanism really doesn't make much sense, nor does it take a lot of scholarship to debunk. Zika is a relatively small single stranded positive sense RNA virus of around 11kbp, the piggyBac transposon system is from a much larger DNA virus and is ~2.4kbp in some of the so called 'minimal' implementations... if it were there, through some convoluted, ridiculous way (multiple runs of DNA being transcripted into RNA that some how managed to arrange themselves correctly on the virus's RNA that, when incorporated into a host cell, the transposon could then be encoded back into DNA and written into the host's genome?), it'd stick out like a sore thumb and be immediately implicated by the scientists sequencing the virus. I'm not even sure it's readily possible to bring those two pieces of genetics together in the lab, let alone in nature.