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I'd say they've found an important clue.
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The retrovirus theory has been around for quite a while, but nobody knows which one. Probably in conjunction with some other virus, on top of a genetic predisposition.
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So I always feel r eal tired and don't have much energy.My body is trying to kill a virus that has spewed millions of little virii throughout my body and it ain't able to do stop the virus.
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I was going to say it's enough to get a warrant... which would mean pretty soon some white blood cells would be kicking XMRV's doors in and asking it to come down to the station.
Phew. I'm really, really tired now. Fatigued, even.
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//sarcasm
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Is there a disease which does not affect human organs?
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04/28/09
Its like Rabid except instead of a virus its a parasite, and the infected turn from laid back swinging singles into aggressive swinging singles.
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While the SF lobes in my brain want to think of this like a sort of computer virus but for people, memes in fact occur all the time in real life, frequently as the latest fad in fashion, business, or technology. And like biological viruses, they can be good or bad. The current financial crisis can be thought of as a kind of meme that infected investors, financiers, and bankers to take on more risk than any rational person could justify.
Another example is the song that keeps running through your mind (think of ANYTHING except "Gilligan's Island"... ANYTHING!). This has been used in a short story by Arthur C. Clarke (as a weapon against the Nazi's I dimly recall) and in Alfred Bester's THE DEMOLISHED MAN (to avoid mind reading police from pegging a murderer). Just recently I had "Gimme Shelter" by the Rolling Stones running though my mind to the point of distraction. (But if you have to have a song stuck in your head, that's not a bad one.)
Memes might be described as a kind of obsession for those of us that are so inclined. Or maybe some forms of addictions are meme-based instead of physiological.
04/27/09