Net Zero Nutters Suggest a Plague of Ticks Whose Bite Leads to a Potentially Fatal Red Meat Allergy
Perhaps it’s a drinking or smoking game at Western Michigan University. Try to come up with the most farcical, April Fool-style Net Zero nonsense and see if we can get it published. How about writing a paper titled ‘Beneficial Bloodsucking’ that states it is “morally obligatory” to promote a plague of the lone star tick whose bite can lead to medical problems including an allergy to red meat. Oh, and it could kill you, but more about that later. Promoting these ghastly ticks, which are already increasing in numbers in large areas of the United States, is said to: “prevent the world from becoming a significantly worse place… doesn’t violate anyone’s rights… promotes virtuous action or character”.
How stupid can academics be? These clowns are prepared to unleash a proliferation of ticks on the general population because one side effect of a bite happens to induce an allergy to red meat, notably beef, pork and lamb. What is proposed is a deliberate tick injection of the sugar molecule alpha-gal into human tissue, leading to an immune defence response causing a syndrome known as AGS. This leads to potentially fatal allergic reactions to red meat and many associated products including dairy products such as milk, cheese, yoghurt and butter. Gelatine is also a problem, so no treats for children since it is found in many favourite brands of candy. It is not just mammalian products that cause problems. Alpha-gal-like structures have been found in carrageenan, a seaweed-derived thickener used in some processed food, and in a number of medicines.
It is feasible to genetically edit the disease-carrying capacity of ticks, state the authors. “If we are right, then today we have the obligation to research and develop the capacity to proliferate tickborne AGS and, tomorrow, carry out that proliferation,” they add. Tickborne AGS is said by these maniacs to be a “moral bioenhancer”.
So who are these temple-of-learning thickos, these climate-bothering cretins who are promoting a widespread Net Zero fantasy to abolish the eating of meat? Step forward Parker Crutchfield, a professor in the Department of Medical Ethics, Humanities and Law at Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine. He is also an adjunct assistant professor in the university’s philosophy department. Our second bright spark is Blake Hereth and he is an assistant professor at the university’s medical ethics school. Of course, the full force of investigative journalist techniques have been employed (Grok) to assert the paper is genuine and not some bored academic’s idea of a lark. It appears to be 100% genuine and has been published in the John Wiley publication Bioethics. Just to be sure, it can be confirmed that Western Michigan University exists, although annual in-state tuition fees of $15,000 seem a little steep if this anti-human tosh is an example of the teaching on offer.
Alpha-Gal Syndrome is a growing concern in the United States and many other parts of the world, notably Australia. According to the Centre for Disease Control, AGS is a “serious, potentially life-threatening” tickborne allergy. The CDC suggests that between 2010 and 2022 nearly 450,000 people may have been affected. The numbers appear to have been rising due to better diagnosis and an expanding range of the lone star tick. From a southern base, the tick is moving northwards and there have been reports of bites in New York and Pennsylvania. High-risk areas are centred around the Southeast and Midwest. There is currently no vaccine or treatment available, and the usual defences against insect bites such as repellent and wearing covering clothing are suggested.
AGS can significantly impact the quality of life of sufferers. The allergic reaction can involve symptoms such as hives, itching, stomach pain, lowered blood pressure or, in severe cases, anaphylaxis. There have been deaths recorded due to AGS, primarily involving medical products containing alpha-gal such as cetuximab and heparin. Cetuximab is a cancer treatment drug used widely in oncology, while heparin is a life-saving blood anticoagulant that is a staple in emergency centres and hospitals around the world. There are reported to be at least 10 deaths attributed to alpha-gal reactions to medical products, with most fatalities due to anaphylactic shock. It appears that no deaths have been directly linked to AGS and red meat consumption, but with cases on the recent rise this could be due to unreported or misdiagnosed cases.
AGS is a serious and growing threat but manageable as a public-health issue. That is unless these Net Zero nutters at Western Michigan are allowed to set or even influence public policy.
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What vile people we are dealing with. These are not normal.
What the Hell are they teaching in Medical Ethics?
These people should be straight jackets in a secure unit!
Fauci’s wife was head of Ethics at the ?CDC while he oversaw equally vile practices – nuff said.
Wtf, doesn’t violate anyone’s rights. Who are these evil bastards planning the wholesale murder of the population. If someone found out that a country was planning chemical warfare on their people like this, say Syria or Iraq, we would now be bombing the crap out of them but these lunatics think they have some god given right to do this. They wouldn’t know ethics if it was a tick that bit them on the arse.
What they are proposing is an act of terrorism. To say they have an obligation to inflict a life threatening condition on the population should be considered a threat of violence, and should be enough to get Western Michigan University prescribed as a terrorist organisation.
I would image RFK Jr will have something to say about this. It’s hardly making America healthy again is it? Funding problems for Western Michigan University somewhere down the line?
Hopefully Donald will defund this centre of ignorance.
So the people are not medically qualifed but trained (?) in law.
Here’s a nice video showing Ian Plimer, “Climate Change: The facts 2025”. Plimer is a geologist , video is 59 mins but worth listening to the end. I suppose I should include a health warning for alarmists who may self destruct when confronted by a real scientist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9NX9a2vyQE
These people are mentally ill. They need medical attention.
No. That partially excuses them. They’re not ill. They’re evil.
How stupid can academics be? Add the following to this diabolical tick idea.
Extract from New Scientists 26 Sept 2015
‘When right is wrong‘
“…However, harnessing the power of rational reflection, collective identity and shame may not be the only options for the would be moral revolutionaries. In their book Unfit for the future, philosophers Ingmar Persson of the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and Julian Savulescu of the University of Oxford argue that our moral brains (they mean those individuals that are not buying the climate change narrative) are so compromised that the only way we can avoid catastrophe is to enhance them through biomedical means..
In the past few years, researchers have shown it might actually be possible to alter moral thinking with drugs and brain stimulation.”
So who decides who should have their brains medically ‘rewired’ and what is the criteria for someone to have their thinking medically changed? Is it simply disagreeing with the person with the syringe? Perhaps prof Parker Crutchfield, Homer Stryker MD, Philosophers Ingmar Persson and Julian Savulescu have been inspired by Josef Mengele?
It’s called “Playing God.” They need to be prosecuted for planning mass murder.
Anyone remember Zika? Caused deformed newborns, Mexico,Central america, Florida. Anyone remember recent rumours of someone tampering with mosquitos, his/her initials BG. Isn’t it amazing how these tick and mosquito borne illnesses have increased. It is probably just another conspiracy theory.