Metagenomics, and the blurring of Species... - Dr Marshall's Perspective - DR MARSHALL'S PERSPECTIVE - THE MARSHALL PROTOCOL:
"The American Society for Microbiology has released a new (FREE) document
'Reconciling Microbial Systematics and Genomics,' March 2007
which explains in detail how pathogens engage in lateral transfer of DNA (and other miscellany) to morph into species which can no longer be readily regarded as distinct. Another older document from the same source is
'Microbial Triggers of Chronic Human Illness,' April 2005
Which we have seen before, but is worth review now. Especially the summary of 'problems' starting on page 9. Enjoy!
ps: I totally agree with this passage:
The criteria used to ascribe etiology to non-microbial causes like genetics and non-infectious environmental influences are far less rigorous than those applied to identify microbial causes. For example, the autism community has all but concluded that autism is a genetic disease, but the dizygotic twin and sibling concordance studies do not support a dominant role for genetic cause. These potential etiologies need to be held to the same experimental standards for causation as microbial etiologies."
Thursday, April 5, 2007
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