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AI Helps Grow 6 Billion Roaches at China's Largest Breeding Site (cnet.com)
With the help of AI, folks at a Chinese pharmaceutical company are breeding cockroaches by the billions every year, South China Morning Post reports. From a report: Their purpose: To make a "healing potion" that can cure respiratory, gastric and other diseases. The "potion," consumed by over 40 million people in China, is made by crushing the cockroaches once they reach a desired weight and size, according to the publication. There is a "slightly fishy smell" to the potion, which tastes "slightly sweet" and looks like tea, it added. Some insects are known to have potential health benefits. Besides China's cockroach potion, scientists are also exploring how milk-like protein crystals in roaches could be an excellent source of calories and nutrition. Chewing down on bugs like crickets and mealworms can also give us more protein, according to studies.
Seriously, aren't cockroaches right up there in causes of asthma?
And this is certainly a place I'd totally NOPE out of...
The first part makes it sound like that traditional Chinese healing mysticism. Although insects are certainly a good source of protein and pretty efficient in converting plant matter into said proteins.
Anyway, I suppose it's better than killing Tigers and other endangered species for their bone(r)s because some old guys can't get a proper erection any more.
It's not that kind of roach!?!?
Harrison's Postulate - "For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism"
beetle juice
beetle juice
crazy dynamite monkey
soylent roach.
Soon at a wal-mart near you.
and where can I download the empirical data of the double blind studies?
Thank GOD for AI, how on earth could roaches breed without sophisticated algorithms?
Now if only we could fix the brains of the Chinese who seem to think crushing up bits of other animals bodies (the more endangered, the better) has some kind of pharmacological effect.
"AI Helps Grow 6 Billion Roaches at China's Largest Breeding Site"
Is it a mere coincidence that at the exact same time the US Democratic Party claims 6 Billion new members???
I... think... not...
They make them eat cockroaches instead of actual food. What's next, China? Soylent Green?
what is possible needed from an AI for cockroaches to grow. Just get a big room and throw some scraps in there once in a while and dont clean it.... you'll ahve tons of roaches super easy.
It's the story with everything; "AI" and grossness!
and where can I download the empirical data of the double blind studies?
That's the beauty of traditional Chinese "medicine". It only works if you don't try to check to see if it actually works.
I never would have thought the roaches needed help in increasing their numbers?
and how it works and when I've recovered from the shock, I'll write 'Fancy That' on the side of my ****.
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Are roaches.
Sounds absolutely disgusting but I guess it beats rhino and tiger.
Honestly, if you make a medical claim, you better have some fucking proof. I still have no idea how homeopaths haven't been arrested for making misleading claims about the curative power of nothing.
I've wondered that exact thing myself. Homeopathy is nothing more than fraud. It is quackery in its most transparent form.
At least traditional Chinese medicine has at least some track record for a few things which actually work.
Not much but I'll grant a few herbs and the like. I'm still not convinced acupuncture is better than placebo and there is no explanation of a mechanism of action.
Communist Cockroaches, the whole lot of 'em!
Whatever elitists decided this would be fun, stop. Just pay up already. You lost the bet. You can only manipulate people through the media so much. You can't actually make us eat bugs.
Didn't they feed all the lower-class, back of the train folks ground-up bug protein bars?
you might think it's snake oil, but there are reasons for the "American Drugs" examples you give.
- Regarding peppers:
These will increase the secretion of the mucosae (i.e.: they'll cause your eye to produce more tear and will get your nose more runny. all this additional water you'll produce wil basically help washing your nose/sinuses)
(most of the traditional cures for upper respiratory tract infections work the same way)
several nasal spray work the same way but more directly (saline water to help wash out the nose).
(the remaining types of sprays tend to also pack in addition a vaso-constricting agents)
- regarding alcohol in cough syrup :
some substance are better dissolved in an alcohol solution than in pure water. Out of the top of my head: codeine doesn't like cold water, if i remember correctly. that's a common antitussive - suppressor of the cough reflex (a class of deug useful in case of dry cough - irritation causing you to cough even if there's nothing to expel).
(wether the active molecules dissolved in the alcohol will actually help you is another question altogether. but alcohol is a key component for the syrup to actually be a syrup and not some undissolved powder at the bottom of a water bottle)
- artificially bitter taste of drugs: yes, in some circumstances, some active molecules which taste sweet might end up in preparation made bitter-tasting on purpose. usually the reason is to diminish the risk of it being accidentally ingested by children or pets.
so no, the purpose is not (only) to make you think it's a drug by making it taste like a drug, but to avoid making it taste too close to candy and have a children OD on it.
so there are actual non marketing uses for the above
(but yes, mint in toothpaste has no other purposes than making you feel fresh).
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Cream of Cockroach. Good for what ails you.
However, you appear to be labeling anything designated as "homeopathic" as fraud which would be a mistake.
It's not a mistake. Homeopathy absolutely is fraud and provably has zero medicinal impact greater than placebo. We don't allow people to sell placebos and claim they are medicine so I don't understand why we allow homeopathy quacks to do the same.
The "science" of homeopathy is complete and utter bullshit, but ultimately it relies on herbal remedies and those can be efficacious as others have noted.
The only thing homeopathy relies upon is the gullibility of the person purchasing/using it. There is no measurable or therapeutic amount of any remedy of any kind (herbal or otherwise) in homeopathic "remedies". There is no mechanism of action that is based in any biochemistry known to man. Anyone selling homeopathy is a criminal. I don't even care if they really believe it works. They are selling people false hope and making a handsome profit doing so.
I am a random consumer, and I am not OK with this. Cockroaches should not be bred as a food replacement, they should be exterminated to make room in the biosphere for a actual food animal. Key word there is animal, not insect. Fish and fowls will do as well. Have they tried breeding lobsters, or are they committed/tunnel-visioned to carelessly exporting ground-up filth to countries they don't like?
Who are these people always try to make whole humanity start eating insects and worms etc?
I don't remember how many similar "news" like this I saw for how many years.
Are these people themselves keep eating insects and worms?
Why are algorithms now being referred to as AI? It's very tiresome correcting the misinformed.
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So they can stop exterminating african wildlife for thier tarditional 'medicine'.
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Nonononono. That is all.
And why is everybody talking about him?
Ignorance is not a defense.
Plants are living creatures.
E.g. Eucalyptus trees have a communication system for immune information, using messenger chemicals, transmittes through the air, so they can become immune to a disease before it even gets to them. So they are even *social* creatures!
And what about carnivorous plants anyway? Vegetards always like to ignore them like they ignore the lion, or the fact that plants, as in, life that lives off the sun, is a rather new invention, and before that it was either hydrothermal vents or eating other life.
Psychosomatic reactiona are a fascinating beast.
Most diseases are due to the body itself acting badly due to some outside influence. Esp. pain is just a signal sent by your body to your body.
And just like it can do that, it can do somethig else. The trick is to know how to make it do something else, instead of putting the results of that something else in your body as a substitute.
Sure, you can inject drugs into your body,numbing your
The problem is that the dosage prescribed by Homeopathy is too low to have any effect.
No the "dosage" in homeopathic "cures" is literally indistinguishable from zero. Worse they make some ludicrous claims about water having "memory" which you have to be a weapons grade moron to actually believe.
The core methodology of Homeopathy is to find something that will cause effects similar to what you want to cure or prevent
That is the cover story. The core methodology is to lie to people and convince them that they are buying something that is somehow more than overpriced bottled water.
If that recent research into a specific type of roach that lactates, which outputs a kind of super-protein milk, were actually applied here, this would have been interesting.
Not sure how you can directly milk roaches industrially though, which is why the researchers were interested in producing it via GM bacteria.