Thomas Platts-Mills
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 17 Jul
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The deer are absolutely infested with ticks.
It is not unusual for hunters to shoot one of our deer and find the thing with so many ticks they couldn't possibly count them.
They always say I'm bonkers.
No, no, I've got away with murder several times.
My father taught us that if we think A and the rest of the world thinks B, that is formal proof that A is correct.
Being educated in an environment like that,
Because the public doesn't decide which grants get funded.
The trouble is that the drug companies are so powerful and they advertise so much that people just get the idea that that's what it is.
And actually, the guidelines are warped.
I've been on a guideline panel for asthma where we were told that we should focus on large controlled trials published in the last five years.
Well, that basically means drug studies.
The number of large controlled trials of tick avoidance that are being done is zero.
No one could afford to do them.
Companies have a lot of money and they do big, well-controlled trials, some of which are really important, but many of which are me too, or trying a new drug which is a very tiny variant of the previous.
it's much more important to try and understand what's happened.
I've written a history of food allergy, and there are three forms of food allergy, which are peanut and the other allergens that cause immediate hypersensitivity, eosinophilic esophagitis,
and the alpha-gal syndrome.
And why I pull those apart is because they're mechanistically completely different, causally different, and the reasons why they've increased are different.
Peanut is probably ridiculous washing of the skin with detergents.
EOE, we've just published a hypothesis that the processing of milk is a major part of that.
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