A REVOLTING TRUE FACT ABOUT ANTS

By ALEX DUNBAR

I can’t stand it when people get on a high-horse about how Western medicine sucks and everybody should just get acupuncture and drink herbs. I see the value in traditional medicine but people get so dogmatic about it and they start sounding ridiculous. One day when a horrendous cancer starts carving chunks out of my body expect to find me on chemotherapy in a state of the art hospital, not drinking Asian elixirs in the back room of a knickknack shop. See, Western medicine may be too quick to endorse experimental treatments before they even understand their mechanism of action, but traditional medicine unapologetically flirts with total insanity.

Take ant suturing. Two words you never thought you’d see in such close proximity, right? In Africa and South America large ants or beetles are put along the closed “lips of a wound” so that their mandibles clamp down at the edge. When ants along the edge have sufficiently stapled the gash closed, the surgeon twists the bodies from the clamped heads and lets that sucker heal. Once they’ve clamped, there’s little you can do to unclamp these demons.

By ALEX DUNBAR 2 years ago

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