Researchers have discovered strange entities hiding in our guts and mouths that may represent an entirely new class of life—if they are even alive.
Dubbed “obelisks,” these tiny rings of RNA can fold into a structure that looks more like a rod, hence the name. They’re also surprisingly commonplace in our microbiomes—the community of viruses, bacteria, fungi, and their genes that live in our bodies. Yet, they’ve gone undetected until now and represent the latest discovery in an ever-growing list of mysterious “genetic agents” hiding in plain sight. Indeed, the researchers who discovered them report that their function, if they have one, is a mystery.
I hope the word scientist becomes obsolete. Insofar as it has any meaning at all, we are all scientists. Frequent use of the word scientist promotes scientism as we saw during the plandemic. Fauci even claimed he was the science and most of the world bowed before his nonsense. People who do research in special fields are researchers. That’s a good term for an honorable profession which describes what they actually do without conferring upon them the sketchy status of priest of something arcane. ABN
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