Picture is of the author Stephen Adams erasing our brains.
Scientists have discovered the first direct evidence that a chemical, produced by algae in freshwater all over the UK, might be linked to devastating neurological conditions, such as Alzheimer’s.
Source: Algae found in freshwater in UK could be fuelling dementia epidemic
I really do dislike overly sensationalistic news stories that get plastered across the world headlines.
This toxin BMAA (Wikipedia it my friends) has been known for decades it is not generated in the common green algae that people see in ponds. It is mostly produced by bacteria (called cyanobacteria also known as blue green algae), and in cycads on the island Guam.
Freshwater Cyanobacteria (bacteria) form a very dark green -almost black at times- slime that is usually found coating heavy sludgy organic material on the bottom. Any green or bright green color in ponds especially if it’s floating usually indicates a healthy algal (plants) ecology which prevents the Cyanobacteria (bacteria) from becoming prevalent. But the picture in the actual article is of common everyday normal bright green string algae (plants). You think the news media could show a picture of the actual thing we’re supposed to be afraid of. So I chose a different picture. A picture of the news media erasing our brains :-)
Hey, let us let the news media terrify us so that we will come back and watch/read what to be afraid of tomorrow.
Let’s all be deathly afraid of what we don’t know.
And then kill it. So we will be safe.
By spraying neurotoxins all over the place: on our food, on our roses, on our lawn, in our homes, in our water! , but then blame all our neurological problems on something else that we are hardly ever exposed to. Good thinking everyone.
I know so many people that scream you can’t trust the news media who would be the first people I know to read this and suddenly be terrified of algae because [Stephen Adams, Health Correspondent For The Mail On Sunday] did such a good job of scaring us …
… (Health Correspondent) but apparently doesn’t know or care about the most basic biology. Hey Stephen Adams and his editor, bacteria and plants are entirely different organisms.
You know … maybe people who would be terrified of a plant ….
Deserve to be terrified of a plant.
Except they’re the ones doing everything they can to buy the good rat poison.
Sheesh.