Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: BCFD 36 Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: (Tears) Fads and Fallacies by Martin Gardner Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 12:07:23 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <291t2jdqj2darsaed0c830lkro7crktd24@4ax.com> <56bt2j9lq757mj29jmf5kptfbm69adhupb@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 21:07:24 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="228e426d259cf54c46b5d583262f8c58"; logging-data="2456315"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19vLi/s7hOExbvzGP8FwawD" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:B+YcPrbcHU+Vfegbswj7He6LV2E= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2227 On 5/17/24 07:41, Dimensional Traveler wrote: > On 5/17/2024 7:25 AM, Christian Weisgerber wrote: >> On 2024-05-17, Robert Carnegie wrote: >> >>> I wonder what a vaccine against sugar would do >>> to public health? >> >> I'll go out on a limb and say that you can't train the immune system >> against the common, simple, nutritionally relevant sugars. >> > Ya, you _really_ don't want a glucose vaccine.... > No, you don't. This could be called diabetes, where you literally can't use the glucose in your food. I responded on a person one time that decided to commit suicide by stopping taking his insulin. The paramedics got her back but he/she was unhappy with us. -- ---------------- Dave Scruggs Senior Software Engineer - Lockheed Martin, et. al (mostly Retired) Captain - Boulder Creek Fire (Retired) Board of Directors - Boulder Creek Fire Protection District (What was I thinking?)