BULL.....Apparently you have never been on a farm or feed lot..   Virtually
all are in the country and must utilize well water as their water source,
including for the owners and employees.  Your assumption holds "No Water"

Chuck

When I first began to take on the challenge of discovery of what causes
prion disease in the mid to late 1990s it was because I instinctively
sensed that the Prusiner Model was utterly defective and flawed. And I
started that trip of exploration of what really causes prion disease with a
great analogy. I remembered that ants are attacked by a fungus that when
they breathe the fungus it goes to the brain of the ant and causes the ant
to climb the highest branch and then dies and the fungus emits thousands of
spores to infect more ants. So if fungus find a happy medium in ant brains
then it is easy to step into an analogy that Prion disease is a fungal
caused disease in humans much like ants.

But I wish that in mid 1990s I had had a well formed Set of Ideas that
would not take hold of me until 2000s. What I mean is that around the first
few years of 2000 I began to realize that the 3 diseases of Prion,
Alzheimers and Parkinsons were family-related-diseases and that what
happens or causes one of them is pretty much close to what happens in the
other two diseases. So that if bacteria and fungus cause Parkinsons, then,
pretty much the case that bacteria and fungus have a major role in Prion
and Alzheimers. There are differences but there are more similarities
between the three.

So the mistake of Mr. Prusiner was to take the attitude that Prion is a
whole new disease, isolated and bereft of all other diseases. And that the
mechanism and cause of Prion is totally and wholly new to the world.
Sometimes science really does have something new but rarely. As good
scientists we should abide with the idea that when confronted for the first
time with what appears to be a new disease. We should not do what Mr.
Prusiner did by calling for new mechanisms. Instead we should be
**patient** and seek to categorize the new found disease into a group of
existing diseases. That is the first step and which Mr. Prusiner utterly
neglected and disregarded.

In the ANNALS OF NEUROLOGY, June 21, 2004 was reported by McNaught, Pearl,
Brownell, Olanow in an article "Systematic Exposure to Proteasome
Inhibitors Causes a Progressive Model of Parkinson's Disease"

There was no mention of the species of fungus but it said that bacteria and
fungus found in well water causes Parkinsons. The bacteria was named as
actinomycetes.

I know a fungus of YEAST produces prion proteins. So I wonder if the fungus
studied in that report is similar to the Yeast fungal species.

I know that in Alzheimers a rogue scissors cuts the protein in a bad cut
leaving a debris particle that accumulates and is the embodiment of the
disease. So, now, I wonder if there is a bacteria or fungus that mimics or
resembles this protein cutter molecule.

This is how medical science should work when a seemingly new disease is
discovered. In that we do not march off to the lab like Mr. Prusiner and
dream up unique and new mechanisms, nay, instead we place the new found
disease into a group of old known diseases that resemble each other and
then we borrow from one to the other until we systematically uncover all
the mysteries involved in that family-related-diseases.

I am anxious to know what the fungus found in well water that causes
Parkinsons and whether that fungus is related to the yeast fungus species
and whether that fungus is related to the fungus that infects the brains of
ants.

I am anxious to know whether any bacteria or fungus resembles the protein
cutter involved in Alzheimers.

P.S. One fact about all of these 3 diseases that should have alerted
smarter scientists working in this field. The contradictory fact that prion
disease is hereditary. If a disease is hereditary, then the likelihood that
a Prusiner Model is true is very low probability. Hereditary and Prusiner
Model are contradictory in relation to how the disease progresses. What is
not contradictory is if a disease is hereditary such as Prion but that
bacteria or fungus can accelerate the disease onset and progression.

Archimedes Plutonium
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