So other animals have it and it “may” be useful as a bacteria reserve. Whatever. I bet Intelligent Design people love that line of investigation.
Next time, someone will be explaining why the coccyx is useful.
Eh, mine tried to kill me when I was 11, so I don’t miss is much. It did give me an appreciation early on for the modern society I live in though.
Now that scientists are uncovering the normal function of the appendix, Parker notes a critical question to ask is whether anything can be done to prevent appendicitis. He suggests it might be possible to devise ways to incite our immune systems today in much the same manner that they were challenged back in the Stone Age.
(my em.)
To quote Prof. Reynolds, “What could go wrong?”
Mr. Anderson (sorry for the assumption if it’s wrong):
There is at least one other case of a similar method working rather well. Asthma is widely thought to be at least partially caused by an understressed immune system during childhood – as in, kids don’t play in the dirt as much as they used to.
This theory has been put to the test in a very direct manner – an asthma vaccine based on a killed culture of soil bacteria. The results so far are quite promising.
First, I forgot there was an organ named an “appendix” and thought it was a joke about how nobody reads the endnotes. I need to get out of business school and back into the world.
“This may encourage those Intelligent Design guys” is hardly a good reason to ignore a piece of plausible on-going research.
So other animals have it and it “may” be useful as a bacteria reserve. Whatever. I bet Intelligent Design people love that line of investigation.
Next time, someone will be explaining why the coccyx is useful.
Eh, mine tried to kill me when I was 11, so I don’t miss is much. It did give me an appreciation early on for the modern society I live in though.
Now that scientists are uncovering the normal function of the appendix, Parker notes a critical question to ask is whether anything can be done to prevent appendicitis. He suggests it might be possible to devise ways to incite our immune systems today in much the same manner that they were challenged back in the Stone Age.
(my em.)
To quote Prof. Reynolds, “What could go wrong?”
Mr. Anderson (sorry for the assumption if it’s wrong):
There is at least one other case of a similar method working rather well. Asthma is widely thought to be at least partially caused by an understressed immune system during childhood – as in, kids don’t play in the dirt as much as they used to.
This theory has been put to the test in a very direct manner – an asthma vaccine based on a killed culture of soil bacteria. The results so far are quite promising.
First, I forgot there was an organ named an “appendix” and thought it was a joke about how nobody reads the endnotes. I need to get out of business school and back into the world.
“This may encourage those Intelligent Design guys” is hardly a good reason to ignore a piece of plausible on-going research.