Re: (Tears) Fads and Fallacies by Martin Gardner

On 2024-05-17, Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> wrote:

I wonder what a vaccine against sugar would do
to public health?

I'll go out on a limb and say that you can't train the immune system
against the common, simple, nutritionally relevant sugars.

You _can_ vaccinate against some toxins.  The ubiquitous diphtheria
and tetanus vaccines confer immunity against the toxins produced
by the respective bacteria, rather than the bacterial infections
themselves.

A cocaine vaccine has been developed, but I don't know if it is
used in practice to treat addiction.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de