http://www.deadlysins.com/guineaworm/index.htm
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Hahaha -
Oh shit.
They're serious?
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Yes, they seem to be not kidding at all.
QuoteIn the early stages of the destructive campaign against the innocent Guinea Worm, the environmental movement faced a choice: to speak out against the killing, or remain silent and permit a living species to be eliminated forever. As defenders of the integrity of our natural world, their choice should have been clear. Yet the environmental movement chose to nestle up in the rich, warm pockets of the Guinea Worm killers and turn a blind eye to the environmental catastrophe taking place around the world. Only the Save the Guinea Worm Foundation continues point the finger of blame at the Guinea Worm-destroying forces of the United Nations.
It's in Africa. Might be some "How to be a huge racist and still be PC" going on here. :x
QuoteAt the heart of the Guinea Worm crisis is the United Nations, along with several powerful global agencies, including the World Health Organization (WHO), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). In May 2000, these powerful institutions were joined by a new funding crusade to bring about the eradication of the Guinea Worm... by none other than Bill Gates and his "Gates Foundation." It is hard to believe that these respected organizations, which spend untold billions of dollars toward the alledged improvement of life on earth, would embark upon such a reckless and destructive campaign.
Those bastards! :argh!: I should have known the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation was behind this, since they also donated $8 million to fund research to help wipe out the poor, innocent HIV virus.
Oh wait, but that's different:
QuoteThe Guinea Worm eradication cannot be compared to campaigns against small pox or polio for one simple reason: the Guinea Worm is not a disease microbe, but a living animal. It has a nervous system. Its hearts pump blood through its small body. It experiences pain. And for thousands, perhaps millions of years, it has inhabited the earth unmolested. Until human hubris threatened its very future.
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You can order publications!
http://www.deadlysins.com/guineaworm/truth.htm
No.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
QuoteThe Preservers comprise an elite group of volunteers selected by the Foundation to assist in the protection of the Guinea Worm. Preservers back up their deeply-held beliefs on the importance of protecting the earth's most endangered species by offering their own bodies as hosts for Guinea Worms. By submitting to the physical discomfort that accompanies Guinea Worm infection, the Preservers hope to carry with them the seeds of future generations of Guinea Worms.
Being a Preserver isn't easy, but with the challenges comes the reward of helping protect the earth's most endangered species.The Preservers' valiant efforts will help preserve the species in the face of almost certain destruction at the hands of the Guinea Worm Destruction Cartel led by the United Nations.
Two groups of volunteers have successfully hosted needy Guinea Worms, and we have received an overwhelming number of applications for our third group of Preservers.
Waitaminnit, if Guinea worm disease isn't caused by Guinea worms, then how are they being eradicated? Are they saying that health workers aren't pulling Guinea worms out of people? Clearly not because they have people who volunteer to be hosts. How do they even reconcile that oh fuck it THE UN IS EBIL!
Do you think the evil eradication cartel knows about the heroic work these guys are doing?
Quote from: The Freeky of SCIENCE! on June 03, 2012, 06:57:42 PM
Do you think the evil eradication cartel knows about the heroic work these guys are doing?
I'm sure they are fighting them using every means at their disposal!
Volunteer guinea worm hosts? :horrormirth:
Let 'em. Just keep them in quarantine somewhere. Like, until there's no more of them. Then fumigate the fuck out of the place. :x
I would say that I think it's a joke site, but every time I say that it turns out I'm wrong. :horrormirth:
It's Poe's world and his law reigns. :x
This volunteer host thing is like Jainism. If Jainism was on steroids and bad meth.
I wondered what the host site was, and it's more crackpottery! http://www.deadlysins.com/
This is awesome.
Oh my god.
Take the lust test! :lulz:
Pure genius!
I think the angle is that for every host, it possible to employ part-time attendants necessary to curate the apearance of said faunal garden. At least two technicians are required per specimen. As one "noodler" prevents the worm from retracting during inspection, the other can try to non-coercively convince the guest to avoid major organs that may result in stress and discomfort if host-transplant ensues. This is particularly true during the worm's breeding cycle, and extra care is advised to make sure the particular specimen understands. During these periods it is advised to have at least three technicians, excepting Sundays, when applicants work for free just because they care.
They're soliciting nekkid pictures. :lulz:
This whole thing is terrifying.
Reading that felt a bit like what I imagine nodular dermatosis caused by parasites in my subcutaneous tissue would feel like. Except I also laughed a fair bit.
The perfect lovemaking music is John Phillip Sousa!!! I am indeed going to Hell. :horrormirth:
Nigel, this made me laugh, and then I cringed, and then I cringed for other deeper, scientific reasons, and then I cringed for other other reasons I don't think I've ever cringed for before. :horrormirth:
So, it's basically a perfect troll, is what you're saying? :lol:
CRINGEMIRTH! RECURSIVE CRINGING INSIDE MY CRINGING, ALL UNDERPINNED BY UNCONTROLLABLE LAUGHTER.
Quote from: Murmur on June 04, 2012, 02:27:44 AM
The perfect lovemaking music is John Phillip Sousa!!! I am indeed going to Hell. :horrormirth:
Sousa Meets Freud (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww2nFam-ycQ)
This is some kind of parody. At least, the Twitter (http://twitter.com/#!/itstheclamsname) is in good humor.
I hope it is a parody.
Incidentally, the Guinea Worm isn't endangered.
Also, if NOT a parody, then this is EXACTLY why nobody takes animal rights people seriously. I mean, fuck's sake, I'm right there with Kai when it comes to preserving diversity of species...But when it comes to things that burrow around inside you and then come bursting out like in Alien, I have to DRAW THE FUCKING LINE.
If it was real, wouldn't PETA be all over it?
(Not that they would screw up animal rights. No sirree. :x )
Guniea Worms are biblical!
Numbers 21:6 - And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
Of course, being the holy man I am, I can tell you that fiery serpents = Guinea Worms. So, saving them is anti-semitic. Nazis.
Holy Men know what the kundalini serpent REALLY is. :horrormirth:
This ever get outed as a parody?
O.O That is awful. And you just know there's some nutbag out there who's wiping away tears and signing up to be a host.
As far as I can tell it's just chugging along happily in parody-land.
Given the honest effort for eradication Of Dracunculiasis has been ongoing for years, it's more stuff like the conflict in Sudan that has kept it alive, despite parody.