Uhh... pretty sure this is like the 10,000th cure taken from nature? Star Trek was immitating life for that plot... Why are people so god damn ignorant to reality?
Anytime you hear a republican complain about spending research money on some seemingly silly thing remember this research. A lot of research sounds weird and pointless from the outside, but you don't know what it might build up to.
They also complain about researching perfectly normal-sounding stuff and then turn around and want to fund something that sounds fucking stupid, just because it aligns with their bigotry.
I think it's more sci-fi that there was this one guy who's blood was tapped for decades to prevent miscarriages all over the world (blood type incompatibilities between universal donor mothers and the fetuses they carried).
Don't judge me. I hate needles and if eating a lizard will tip the scales in my favor, it's their own damned fault for being delicious, nutritious, and apparently immunicious. It's a word. I just made it up, though.
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MotoAsh@piefed.social · 39 pts · 252d
Uhh... pretty sure this is like the 10,000th cure taken from nature? Star Trek was immitating life for that plot... Why are people so god damn ignorant to reality?
DrMartinu@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 26 pts · 252d
Yeah I don't think the star trek writers are even trying to include the eventual inhumane ramp up of the miracle cure production either.
Some lab is probably chucking those lizards into a blender.
SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 252d
What am I looking at?
normanwall@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 252d
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 252d
Horseshoe crab blood collection.
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/10/1180761446/coastal-biomedical-labs-are-bleeding-more-horseshoe-crabs-with-little-accountabi
ryathal@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 252d
This isn't even the first lizard based medicine. There have been several different ones. Notably GLP-1s.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 252d
Gotta get that lizard neck
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 252d
Anytime you hear a republican complain about spending research money on some seemingly silly thing remember this research. A lot of research sounds weird and pointless from the outside, but you don't know what it might build up to.
MimicJar@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 252d
Lizard research is also how we got Ozempic.
https://globalnews.ca/news/9793403/ozempic-canada-scientist-venomous-lizard-weight-loss/
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 3 pts · 251d
They also complain about researching perfectly normal-sounding stuff and then turn around and want to fund something that sounds fucking stupid, just because it aligns with their bigotry.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 252d
Anything that eats insects is friend--lizards, birds, spiders, toddlers. All are friend.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 1 pts · 251d
China literally got a famine because they declared sparrows a pest! (well that's not the only reason, but it was a reason).
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · 4 pts · 252d
Lyme, no "s"
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 252d
I think it's more sci-fi that there was this one guy who's blood was tapped for decades to prevent miscarriages all over the world (blood type incompatibilities between universal donor mothers and the fetuses they carried).
SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org · 3 pts · 252d
And yet, I bet that a lot of morons would rather go "extreme Paleo" and gnaw on a lizard rather than getting a little injection.
5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 252d
gnaw gnaw gnaw
InvalidName2@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 252d
Don't judge me. I hate needles and if eating a lizard will tip the scales in my favor, it's their own damned fault for being delicious, nutritious, and apparently immunicious. It's a word. I just made it up, though.
SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org · 1 pts · 250d
How about rimming a frog, then?
can_you_change_your_username@fedia.io · 3 pts · 252d
Frogs cure cancer.
https://newatlas.com/cancer/frog-reptile-microbes-cancer/
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 252d
You really expect me to believe this shit?
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 252d
It says 'western fence lizard' though
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 252d
Im being gaslit and gangstalked.