My Fellow Superorganisms,
Those of you already familiar with the site may have noticed I’ve taken down quite a few pieces. Many of these were written about three years ago. I still stand by their general content, but want to make sure they are completely up to date before I put them back up. A second factor in their temporary removal is that, in retrospect, the tone of these pieces is stronger than the tone I would use today.
When I started this blog, I was writing as an advocate and, over time, I’ve evolved to think and write more like a scientist. I want to make sure that nothing that should be described as a hypothesis comes off in my previous writing as sounding like an established fact.
Just so readers know, the vast majority of the information and studies discussed on this site have now been repurposed as part of content for Autoimmunity Research Foundation’s Marshall Protocol Knowledge Base, which I would encourage you to have a look at.
Best,
Amy
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8 Responses for "Update on tone and other issues"
Very nice upgrade philosophy to your site, but I never felt you were on thin ice in your articles and posts. My niece is a Phd candidate in Bioengineering at Drexel. She looks and sounds very much like you, and has had alopecia since she was very young. Myself, I am an Electrical Engineer, now retired, and am treating Lyme like disease with the MP Protocol. Thank you for your work and dedication.
As an off topic question, are there other animal models with a similar role for the VDR as humans? What about guinea pigs?
Hi Mike,
Thanks for writing! I think that your niece can look forward to a very interesting career as bioengineering is advancing at an extremely rapid pace these days. Regular engineer is good too – my Dad’s an engineer, not electrical, but he’s one smart dude. I’m glad you are doing the MP and hope that your experience is as smooth as possible.
My research focus now is not really VDR homology. However I believe Dr. Marshall doesn’t think that VDR homology is very good between any animal and Homo Sapiens, although I’m not sure he’s ever really looked at the guinea pig VDR. I think if he had to use an animal model it would be an ape, yet as you can imagine those studies would be quite expensive. Even then, differences can be great when it comes to the immune response. For example, many studies on SARS in apes have not really been applicable to treatments that actually work for humans with AIDS. Right now we really hope we can just work to keep testing the MP on people – ideally we’d like to get some more controlled studies underway although it will still take time.
Best,
Amy
“I want to make sure that nothing that should be described as a hypothesis comes off in my previous writing as sounding like an established fact.”
Since we don’t know which articles are missing, perhaps you could provide a brief list of statements with their revisions.
Hi Kate,
Thanks for your concern. I didn’t mean to imply that I think that the content of any of my articles was wrong. At the moment I can’t think of any issue I discussed that I now think is incorrect.
That being said the “tone” issue stems through all of the earlier pieces. It’s just the difference between saying “bacteria MAY cause autoimmune disease and “bacteria cause autoimmune disease.” The second statement is a bit strong but that’s the way I often phrased things in the early days.
Unfortunately right now I’m pretty swamped with work so I can’t at the moment look for every sentence that needs a “may” or a “likely” etc. I can tell you though that if in going over any of my pieces, I find anything that I think was misleading I’ll let you guys know.
Best,
Amy
Hi Amy,
I was looking for the article about the ACDI conference
“Reflections from the 2008 Aging Conference plus video footage”
I did find it on archive.org but wasn’t sure why it was removed but now I have seen your post it makes a lot of sense.
I am looking for someone who may be interested in guest blogging on Rejuvedpedia.org about the role of L-form bacteria and bacterial biofilms in the aging process.
Please let me know if you or someone else is interested.
Best regards,
Chris
Hey Chris -
That sounds like an interesting topic. Sadly, I’m pretty much at my limit with my current work. Otherwise I’d still be writing for this site! But we have some other readers here who I think know quite a bit about L-forms – so maybe they could help you out?
Best of luck and sorry I can’t help,
Amy
Very good move. I look foreward to reading any future work you produce. I think you are on the right path now. Using the right “tone” is vital to avoiding the scorn of other scientists !!! and ultimately will aid you in getting you SCIENCE across, which is the most important thing of all. The ideas of the Marshall protocol are interesting indeed and I for one will be keeping an eye on developments as the tedious and slow process of verification unfolds. We have talked before and I can see you are the type of person who kicks things around in her mind and makes adjustments….I think you are on the road to great acheivments
Tim
Hi Tim,
Thanks! I’ve wanted to make these changes for a while so I’m glad I actually got around to it! Your comments a while ago helped steer me in this direction. I also met a very vocal scientist at a recent metagenomics conferences who suggested the same changes and helped get me off my butt to make them.
For a while I wasn’t sure what to do with this site because I originally wanted it to be a blog where I could write really opinionated pieces, but I’m afraid that’s not too helpful for me and my future at the moment.
But I realize now that I never really wrote my pieces like blog posts – I wrote them like articles, and it took me a while to understand that people were using this site as a resource associated directly with the MP site (which I actually did NOT want to happen..but it did.)
Anyway take care and thanks always for your enthusiastic feedback!
Amy