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Warpy

(113,131 posts)

2. Yes, I want to smite the author of that piece with persistent pinworm.

Reply to Laffy Kat (Reply #1)

Tue Feb 11, 2020, 01:37 AM

Feb 2020

I'll wait for real science to determine what our normal intestinal bugs do and how they do it.

Shoot, we've just recently discovered we have a microbiome. Let's hold off a while on introducing parasites our ancestors found troublesome enough to drink distillations of plants like tansy and wormwood that made them sick but killed off the worms.