I had read one of the papers on microwaving your sponges, and since our house was enjoying a bit of a mouse-poop-on-the-counter problem at the time, I figured microzapping the bacteria couldn't hurt. Unfortunately it was an old microwave and there was no "quick minute" button, so in a hurry, I inadvertently set it for 20:00 minutes instead of 2:00. Maybe ten minutes later my housemate says, "my god what is that awful smell," and I run into the kitchen to find the sponge on fire and the microwave still dutifully cooking it. The smell lasted at least a week, and I threw away the microwave.
So here's a question...I'm a little hazy on the concept, but microwaves heat stuff by exciting water molecules. Once the water molecules had evaporated what did it heat in the sponge that caused it to catch fire?
Cures for a lot of diseases probably already exist but there is no money in curering people, just treating their symptoms. You really think drug companies care about your health?
While drug companies are probably most concerned with profit, there is quite a bit of money to be made in curing people. Imagine company A has a treatment, and company B has a cure. People will buy company B's cure.
Also, the HIV drug described in TFA, even if it worked perfectly, would probably require someone who was infected to use it for the rest of their lives to prevent cells that were already infected with the virus from becoming active and spreading it. This would make anyone who produced the drug quite a bit of money.
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I had read one of the papers on microwaving your sponges, and since our house was enjoying a bit of a mouse-poop-on-the-counter problem at the time, I figured microzapping the bacteria couldn't hurt. Unfortunately it was an old microwave and there was no "quick minute" button, so in a hurry, I inadvertently set it for 20:00 minutes instead of 2:00. Maybe ten minutes later my housemate says, "my god what is that awful smell," and I run into the kitchen to find the sponge on fire and the microwave still dutifully cooking it. The smell lasted at least a week, and I threw away the microwave. So here's a question...I'm a little hazy on the concept, but microwaves heat stuff by exciting water molecules. Once the water molecules had evaporated what did it heat in the sponge that caused it to catch fire?
Cures for a lot of diseases probably already exist but there is no money in curering people, just treating their symptoms. You really think drug companies care about your health?
While drug companies are probably most concerned with profit, there is quite a bit of money to be made in curing people. Imagine company A has a treatment, and company B has a cure. People will buy company B's cure.
Also, the HIV drug described in TFA, even if it worked perfectly, would probably require someone who was infected to use it for the rest of their lives to prevent cells that were already infected with the virus from becoming active and spreading it. This would make anyone who produced the drug quite a bit of money.