Recent content by Otto Kretschmer

So that's where the 2nd paragraph of my previous post starts to work - you aren't a billionaire or a politician with the necessary connections nor even a scientist working in the field. Patient advocacu is very difficult in said conditions.

It's a normal thing, experimental treatments may take 15-20 years to go from experimental stage to socially accepted, clinically approved therapies. The biggest problem of Michael is that he's essentially a nobody, he doesn't have the social, political and economic capital that is simply needed...

Like I'd previously said - he has some vague ideas about the microbiome being important in the "yoghurt is healthy, it has good bacteria" kind of way but nothing more than that. Being aware of non c. diff FMT really requires hyper specialized knowledge that very few people possess and that is...

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Then point out where and how precisely he is wrong.

Every politician needs to promise something. Otherwise they wouldn't be winning elections. You have way too much unwarranted trust in people and institutions overall - the main purpose of this administration is to orchestrate another upward (i.e. from the poor-middle class to the rich) wealth...

He's a long standing anti vaxxer who spent a significant amount of time on that years before becoming the HHS Secretary. As for gut microbiome, he likely does have vague ideas about the microbiome being important in the "eat your yoghurt, it's healthy" kind of way but little beyond that. Even if...

FMT is a very niche treatment. You basically need to be aware of the very frontiers of research to even know that FMT for anything other than C. diff. is a thing. Even most science buffs don't know that. The thing about science is that knowledge accumulates slowly - the germ theory was...

RFK Jr isn't a medical researcher or a science enthusiast, he's a lawyer by education and his only link to science is subscribing to a bunch of conspiracy theories mostly about vaccines. He does hold some generic ideas about big pharma being bad that are shared by all people in the alternative...

Look up neuro-symbolic AI, state space models, graph neural networks and spiking neural networks. For reasons unknown to me lots of people treat LLMs as the pinnacle of AI development while in reality they're just the starting point, similar to how Apple II was the starting point for personal...

Note that this won't continue forever - LLMs hallucinate because of the way they work, being statistical pattern matchers and not true thinkers - but in a couple of years they will be replaced by newer, better AI paradigms that will be many times more powerful and hallucination-free. The future...

Ok I really misunderstood you. Treat my previous post as never written.

The whole purpose of MAGA is to take the last brakes off corporations so that they can run loose and get even richer. I can't believe anyone in the US can be naive enough to believe otherwise. Reps vs Dems fight isn't a fight of the common people versus the elites, at best it's just infighting...

A decent approach might be to try to convince a doctor - preferably a gastroenterologist - of the merits of FMT. Doctors have more authority than a common person and they have connections with other doctors whom they should be able to convince as well.

Everything is fine. They aren't rejecting any FMT comments. If I am not mistaken, scienceforums.net has a rule that posts of new users need to be approved by moderation. I registered over a year ago, i can't remember everything.