From: "Gary Britt" 

Bush is a dog person.  The common thread in all of this is the host engages
in behavior calculated to lead to its death.  In other words the hosts are
trying to commit suicide.  This would explain not neocon behavior, but
liberal neo surrender monkey behavior.  They are trying to do everything
they can to interfere with their defense in the face on an intractable and
deadly enemy (i.e., they are trying to commit suicide).  Maybe we should
start testing Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Cindy Sheehan, everyone at Daily
KOS, Monte, etc for these parasites.

Gary

"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
news:43efa227{at}w3.nls.net...
> Maybe the neocons have a valid excuse. The Toxoplasma didn't like Saddam?
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20060211/sc_space/mindcontrolbyparasites
>
> Mind Control by Parasites
>
> Half of the world's human population is infected with Toxoplasma,
parasites
> in the body-and the brain. Remember that.
> Toxoplasma gondii is a common parasite found in the guts of cats; it sheds
> eggs that are picked up by rats and other animals that are eaten by cats.
> Toxoplasma forms cysts in the bodies of the intermediate rat hosts,
> including in the brain.
>
> Since cats don't want to eat dead, decaying prey, Toxoplasma takes the
> evolutionarily sound course of being a "good" parasite,
leaving the rats
> perfectly healthy. Or are they?
>
> Oxford scientists discovered that the minds of the infected rats have been
> subtly altered. In a series of experiments, they demonstrated that healthy
> rats will prudently avoid areas that have been doused with cat urine. In
> fact, when scientists test anti-anxiety drugs on rats, they use a whiff of
> cat urine to induce neurochemical panic.
>
> However, it turns out that Toxoplasma-ridden rats show no such reaction.
In
> fact, some of the infected rats actually seek out the cat urine-marked
areas
> again and again. The parasite alters the mind (and thus the behavior) of
the
> rat for its own benefit.
>
> If the parasite can alter rat behavior, does it have any effect on humans?
>
> Dr. E. Fuller Torrey (Associate Director for Laboratory Research at the
> Stanley Medical Research Institute) noticed links between Toxoplasma and
> schizophrenia in human beings, approximately three billion of whom are
> infected with T. gondii:
>
>   a.. Toxoplasma infection is associated with damage to astrocytes, glial
> cells which surround and support neurons. Schizophrenia is also associated
> with damage to astrocytes.
>   b.. Pregnant women with high levels of antibodies to Toxoplasma are more
> likely to give birth to children who will develop schizophrenia.
>   c.. Human cells raised in petri dishes, and infected with Toxoplasma,
will
> respond to drugs like haloperidol; the growth of the parasite stops.
> Haloperidol is an antipsychotic, used to treat schizophrenia.
> Dr. Torrey got together with the Oxford scientists, to see if anything
could
> be done about those parasite-controlled rats that were driven to hang
around
> cat urine-soaked corners (waiting for cats). According to a recent press
> release, haloperidol restores the rat's healthy fear of cat urine. In
fact,
> antipsychotic drugs were as effective as pyrimethamine, a drug that
> specifically eliminates Toxoplasma.
>
> Are parasites like Toxoplasma subtly altering human behavior? As it turns
> out, science fiction writers have been thinking about whether or not
> parasites could alter a human being's behavior, or even take control of a
> person. In his 1951 novel The Puppet Masters, Robert Heinlein wrote about
> alien parasites the size of dinner plates that took control of the minds
of
> their hosts, flooding their brains with neurochemicals. In this excerpt, a
> volunteer strapped to a chair allows a parasite to be introduced; the
> parasite rides him, taking over his mind. Under these conditions, it is
> possible to interview the parasite; however, it refuses to answer until
> zapped with a cattle prod.
>
>   He reached past my shoulders with a rod. I felt a shocking, unbearable
> pain. The room blacked out as if a switch had been thrown.. I was split
> apart by it; for the moment I was masterless.
>
>   The pain left, leaving only its searing memory behind. Before I could
> speak, or even think coherently for myself, the splitting away had ended
and
> I was again safe in the arms of my master...
>
>   The panic that possessed me washed away; I was again filled with an
> unworried sense of well being...
>
>   "What are you?" "We are the people... We have studied
you and we know
your
> ways... We come," I went on, "to bring you peace.. and
contentment-and the
> joy of-of surrender." I hesitated again; "surrender"
was not the right
word.
> I struggled with it the way one struggles with a poorly grasped foreign
> language. "The joy," I repeated, "-the joy of . .
.nirvana." That was it;
> the word fitted. I felt like a dog being patted for fetching a stick; I
> wriggled with pleasure.
>
>
> Still not sure that parasites can manipulate the behavior of host
organisms?
> Consider these other cases:
>
>   a.. The lancet fluke Dicrocoelium dendriticum forces its ant host to
> attach to the tips of grass blades, the easier to be eaten. The fluke
needs
> to get into the gut of a grazing animal to complete its life cycle.
>   b.. The fluke Euhaplorchis californiensis causes fish to shimmy and jump
> so wading birds will grab them and eat them, for the same reason.
>   c.. Hairworms, which live inside grasshoppers, sabotage the
grasshopper's
> central nervous system, forcing them to jump into pools of water, drowning
> themselves. Hairworms then swim away from their hapless hosts to continue
> their life cycle.
>
> Not all science-fictional parasites are harmful; read about the Crosswell
> tapeworm from Brian Aldiss' 1969 story Super-Toys Last All Summer Long
(the
> basis for the Kubrick/Spielberg film AI), which keeps people who overeat
> from becoming obese. Not to mention robots based on parasites. Read press
> release on evidence for link between Toxoplasma and schizophrenia,
Suicidal
> grasshoppers. Story via blogger Carl Zimmer and his readers.
>
>

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