Diseases like Kuru in humans also taught us that prions can be transmissible under certain circumstances, with Kuru infamously spread through the cannibalism of deceased family members and their brains among the Fore people of Papua New Guinea. But the BSE scare established that an animal’s ...
The Great Leap Forward was an ambitious plan for economic development, urbanization, and industrialization in China during the late 1950s into the 60s. The plan, however, ended up being a disaster. During the Great Leap Forward, as many as 45 million people died from diseases and famine resul...
Victims of the Great Famine died due to starvation and violence, and cases of torture and cannibalism were uncovered in the records. It's unlikely a concentrated famine of such massive proportions could take place today, with global efforts to reduce instances of extreme food shortages and hunger...
You see, these supposed "infective agents" such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, and now Prions, are NOT the CAUSE of the diseases, they are the RESULT of a diseased body caused by the wrong diet and lifestyle. These bacteria, viruses, fungi and prions are actually the "clean-up crew", ...
and otherwise - we must be vigilant so as to keep from being sucked back into the death-dealing atmosphere of this world. ... Let the world go along in its way, reaping its bad fruitage in the form of broken homes, illegitimate births, sexually transmitted diseases, such as AIDS, and...
Michael Sandel: Last time we argued about the case of the Queen versus Dudley and Stephens, the life boat case, the case of cannibalism at sea, and with the arguments about the life boat in mind, the arguments for and against what Dudley and Stephens did in mind, let’s turn back to...
Using the 'native' idea, we as a people on this planet should unlock all the zoos and let all the animals go free, since the animals and insects were here way before man was. Where does it stop? Do we elect skeletons of dinosaurs to be our leaders? Do you see now how dumb and ...