We are not the final species
What percentage of beef-eating Americans diagnosed with dementia are in fact suffering from prion diseases?
And of those beef-eaters not yet demented, what percentage have prions rotting their brains?
Beef is the best-known and I assume largest prion vector.
But all animals are vulnerable to prions diseases: sheep, pigs, fish.
Also: plants can uptake prions from soil, and these prions remain infectious.
One wonders if prion-based life forms will succeed our own.
Evolution is an ongoing process: we are not the final species.
In the News
Health Minister spongiform encephalopathy (HMSE), commonly known as mad Health Minister disease, is a neurodegenerative disease of Health Ministers. Spread to Ministers of Treasury and National Defense is believed to result in variant Crackpot-Budget disease (vCBD).
Make me a ham sandwich, HAL.
Fiction cross-reference
- Gnomon algorithm
- Gnomon Chronicles
- Health Minister spongiform encephalopathy
- If God made anything more delicious than pigs
- Make me a ham sandwich
- New sexes will evolve
- The building blocks of death
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External links
- Post @ Facebook (9 May 2025)
- Evolution @ Wikipedia
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- [ Post] @ Twitter (28 January 2026)
