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My book is intended to save the lives of the globe from my illness now that I what caused it. The illness I solved is Huntington's disease just in time to save my life and others. My book has been intended to save the globe from death caused my illness. Caffeine killed my ancestors. Caffeine production across the planet must be stopped. Your life can be saved by having no caffeine for as long as the disease was around. The other chapters in my book are illnesses that have similar symptoms. I will not know if the experiment will work until we try it. A caffeine concentration sensor could be made and we could go back on caffeine.
The author graduated with a BS in chemical engineering from the University of California, San Diego, 1993. She would have gotten into medical school with 4.0 average. She is an athlete. She is good at eleven sports. The sports are near-professional golf, swimming, surfing, hiking, pool, Ping Pong, skiing, ocean kayaking, lake kayaking, and white water rafting. She can also sing.
That free cure will cost you $17.98 + shipping from Amazon.com
I wonder about the statement "She would have gotten into medical school with 4.0 average". I mean wouldn't any of us gotten into medical school if we had a 4.0 average?
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)I only counted 10.
apparently English is not one of her majors.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,647 posts)politicat
(9,808 posts)Couldn't, so went the D. Sci route. (Which is good. I like investigating the drugs. I wouldn't want to be a psychiatrist and have to hand them out.) I could see someone saying something similar.
On the gripping hand, that bio reads like remedial English comp. Anyone who got through a BA/BS with a 4.0 should write better than that.
However... I call BS. Avoiding caffeine and other adenosine antagonists might delay onset, but you can't cure a genetic fault through consumption. (And it could be a statistical blip,because it's not like Huntington's is common enough to have a huge sample, and retrospective analysis requires accuracy in recollection, which is problematic at best.)
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,674 posts)The author of this weighty tome probably never finished high school and has plagiarized what she didn't totally make up. I teach a couple of undergrad college classes and even my worst students don't write that badly.
politicat
(9,808 posts)Brains, neurochem and transmitters are my wheelhouse. (Also, having just gotten finished with a PA in unhealthy luuuurve with nutraceuticals, herbals, homeopathy, naturopathy and TCM, I'm definitely a bit raw on woo right now.)
There's a part of me considering getting my lab to take up a collection of change until we have the 17 or 20 bucks to buy it, then do a comprehensive shred and blog.
Because yes, we are assholes that way sometimes.
Chan790
(20,176 posts)because Huntington's has a severe neurological component in late-stage disease is that the poor author of this tome is probably manifesting a severe delusion that she's cured herself. What we're all laughing at is in-fact the sad progression in the form of mental degradation resulting from late stage Huntington's.
It's why though reading the Amazon blurb made me laugh, I am making an effort to show compassion. She may well have been a highly-intelligent and athletic person, that it can rob a victim of that much is simply sad.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,674 posts)it's sad that her family or friends didn't do something to keep this regrettable book from being self-published. It won't get wide circulation in any event, but still it would be a sad thing to be remembered for.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)She said "she would have gotten into medical school with 4.0 average"
Wouldn't any of us gotten into medical school if we had a 4.0?
politicat
(9,808 posts)orleans
(34,049 posts)"Mary Cooper: The trick to pancakes is bacon grease. I cook everything in it.
Leonard: Everything? Aren't you worried about your health?
Mary Cooper: Oh, doctors are always changing their minds. One week bacon grease is bad for you. The next week were not getting enough of it."
--big bang theory/ season 5 episode 6 the rhinitis revelation
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)I have no clue what a hoecake is except they always talk about them on True Blood and they say the best ones are done in bacon grease - at least according to Lettie Mae Thorton and Sam Merlotte
mackerel
(4,412 posts)LynneSin
(95,337 posts)Surely if I saw this and had a kid considering going to that school I'd want him or her to consider elsewhere.
mackerel
(4,412 posts)Feral Child
(2,086 posts)Check yourself, it's at the very pinnacle of the Food Pyramid.
I wash down 4 Excedrin with my 2nd espresso every goddam morning!
Enrique
(27,461 posts)it's just a technicality that she's not.
Wounded Bear
(58,647 posts)playing "near-professional" golf.
easychoice
(1,043 posts)nut cases.I swear...