Parasites: THEY'RE GOOD FOR YOU!

[Valerius]

Because SCIENCE!

Well, when you put it that way, it of course makes total sense.

[Sigmaleph]

I'm reminded for some reason of the fact that they do poop transplants to fill someone else's insides with healthy parasites and the like.

Nitpick, but they are mutualistic symbiotes, not parasites.

Poop transplants to move parasites? Why not just ingest the parasites directly. Seems simpler. And less gross.

Actually, no. Consider this is bacteria we're talking about, not worms, you can't just put them in a glass of water and tell the patient to drink it. Well, maybe you can, I'm just not sure it's a good idea. Anyway, it's simpler to just keep them in the poop.

[Valerius]

Okay that makes a lot more sense then. I was thinking he meant nematodes or something.

[Shane for Wax]

I'm reminded for some reason of the fact that they do poop transplants to fill someone else's insides with healthy parasites and the like.

Nitpick, but they are mutualistic symbiotes, not parasites.

That too. The fact that it's been brought up as a solution to my infection problem right now doesn't make me any less eyebrow raising at the idea.

Also Google doesn't recognize 'mutualistic' or 'symbiotes'.

[Sigmaleph]

Well, they are organisms that are in a symbiotic relationship, specifically mutualism. There's probably a better term for it, but that's the one I could think of and it has appeared in some of the literature.

[Shane for Wax]

Oh, I know. I just found it amusing Google doesn't recognize those terms. Since I've seen it used in textbooks for biology class.

[Valerius]

Maybe your google is like the highschool drop-out of googles or something. My google doesn't seem to have that problem.

[Shane for Wax]

Google spellcheck? Which also doesn't recognize spellcheck?

I sometimes add words to it when it decides to be a dumbo.