There was a male microbiologist to who did something to himself because he could not get approvals or it was taking to long or something. Can’t for the life of me remember what the thing he was doing was.
Barry Marshall. Discovered Helicobacter Pylori, drank it, and got a stomach ulcer and a Nobel price for his efforts.
no not that far back. like it the last year or few years and it was definately a gene editing type thing. I should be clear the article was the last year or few but I think the action that lead to it was not much earlier than the article.
[It was] a study involving a single participant.
It is the most limited form of evidence in medicine.
One person, one outcome, no control group, no way to separate the effect of the viruses from the many other variables that influence the course of any individual cancer.
Halassy’s cancer may have responded to the viral injections precisely as the data suggest.
It may also have been on a trajectory that would have allowed surgical removal regardless.
There is no way to know, and this is not a technicality.
it would give good starting point for proper research though
Absolutely. It highlights a curious direction of study, but doesn’t in itself prove anything. It might also be dangerous.
But still worth properly exploring, right.
Nah. Cancer said prove it and her next shot rimmed out so the game is still going.
There is a zombie movie/game that starts like this right?
I Am Legend, based on a novelthat used bacteria as the offending pathogen.
Related, a whole podcast episode of stories of self-experimentation:
https://timharford.com/2022/09/cautionary-tales-a-leap-of-faith-from-the-eiffel-tower/
