As an actual medical laboratory scientist, no, this company and its oh-so-clever technology was entirely a grift. They diluted the sample so far outside of linearity that the results weren’t valid anymore. Any lab tech could have told you this the moment the company mentioned that the (patient-collected, holy shit)…

Fyre festival is totally happening next year. /s

There was clear fraud

Yeah, but the tech is like - light years away from where it needs to be to even work, never mind work as good as or better than existing technology and be consistent enough to pass a CLIA certification for human testing.

Where’s someone who wants to impress Jodie Foster when you need them?

Good that you’ve got all the rules for everyone, ever.

I fully expect a 72 year old woman in a small town in oklahoma to consult wikipedia before shooting at the tangle of venomous copperheads under her house.

There is no animal control in her county. And, the nearest expert is five hours away. She’s grown up around these snakes. No need to waste money.

2) A healthy population of snakes means you won’t have a mouse or rat problem.

Right?! Who the fuck keeps their dog on a leash in their own back garden?!? Poor damn dog!

Well I mean that’s great but I guess you’ve never been to small town Oklahoma. Looks like she lives in Lequire, OK. Population 123. And she’s 72. Just let her be a great Okie

In my fenced in back yard?

Um, I love animals. I love all animals. But if you’ve got copperheads under your house, animals you love start dying unless they die first. Nature is a brutal thing. 99% of snakes I wouldn’t touch - lots of snakes take care of rats and such and do so without harm to most things. But copperheads in your yard/home need…

Nah, copperheads are dangerous AF. My neighbors lost two dogs to them. Copperheads gotta die. Especially if you have a dog.

This is a 72 year old woman and these are very venomous snakes infesting her house. If she accidentally stepped on one or got too close and spooked one to the point where it bit her, she could easily die. Copperheads are not threatened or endangered, in fact they’re classified under “Least Concern.”

Copperheads are exceedingly dangerous, and a nest of them under a residence is a situation that more than justifies their extermination. That’s all there is to that.

So if I’ve got mice in my kitchen, I’m not allowed to set traps because apparently I created the conditions that attracted them? That time my kitten caught a mouse and paraded it around the perimeter of the apartment like a damn gladiator, I should not have been proud of her and removed the mouse from her mouth and…

Seriously, I advocate against killing and paid some guy a couple of hundred dollars to “relocate” 6 or 7 skunks, moving them from under my cabin to somewhere out in the nearby forest. But I would kill a pack of poisonous snakes that had taken up residence under the house, just like this brave old lady. Aren’t…

are you pontificating from Park Slope or some shit

Normally I’d agree, but if I found out about a nest of snakes living under my house I’m not certain I wouldn’t just surrender the property to them. Her method is at least more economical than mine.