This reply, and the votes on both of our comments, confirm exactly what I described.
Instead of reviewing the scientific evidence and changing one’s position accordingly, this guy went massively out of his way to try to create a personal attack, and everyone supported it because no one here is interested in the science/evidence, they’re just trying to support their preconceived notions & biases.
Extremely unintelligent & anti-scientific behavior.
Given this; and I only gave it a cursory look, why hasn’t this been picked up by a university?
That’s a great question. I wrote more about it here: https://forum.humanmicrobiome.info/threads/continued-letters-and-complaints-to-the-fda-nih-and-hhs-jan-2025-fmt.842/. It appears to be primarily incompetence and apathy. The FMT donor quality situation requires unique action, and they’ve shown an unwillingness to do that.
There’s also pharmaceutical industry influence and other monied interests, including by academics themselves: https://forum.humanmicrobiome.info/tags/research-industrial-complex/
Second, what motive does the FDA have to stall an effective medicine?
They may not be purposefully stalling it. FMT is very unique from other things they regulate, and they haven’t shown any interest in creating FMT-specific/appropriate regulation. There’s little pressure on them to do so, so they may just be playing it safe and not taking any risks that might cause public outcry.
Regarding the current administration, they may be lying about ending the chronic disease crisis:
Dad had been a medical-researcher: he taught me to think.
He didn’t teach you very well. Stop spreading harmful misinformation.
And to the people upvoting the misinformation, you really need to do some basic research and critical thinking first. Why would there be hundreds of FMT clinical trials around the world for curing chronic diseases if it were so easy with probiotics? Why would 60%+ of Americans have a chronic disease if you could simply cure them with probiotics?
It makes it seem very possible that the comment and upvotes above are deliberate astroturfing by the pharmaceutical industry.
The headline is completely misleading & false, but since it supports people’s biases, everyone is mindlessly agreeing with it.
If you want to actually learn about the cause of autism, and similar conditions, review the evidence: https://humanmicrobiome.info/brain/
There’s an existing cure for most chronic diseases. Unfortunately, no one seems to care, so it will likely never be available.
OP, given your knowledge of news media, perhaps you have some ideas of how to get coverage of the issue? I’ve written to dozens of news outlets about it.
It says who they are in their signature. And a plethora of peer-reviewed papers are cited.
I guess all the people solely cheering for this aren’t aware of the damage we’ve been doing to ourselves with antibiotics:
Resistance may already be a solved problem: https://humanmicrobiome.info/antibiotics/#fmt-to-counter-antibiotic-resistance
I had lots of important content I posted to reddit, as did other members of the community. The subs I ran weren’t fluff subs.
This is an absolutely nonsensical response, and a red herring logical fallacy. Extremely dishonest and unintelligent.
This is the original comment that linked to a plethora of scientific evidence: https://lemmy.world/post/37315936/19936596