Comments on: Losing our germs: My last podcast

By: Zephyr

Zephyr — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:45:57 +0000

Really sad, good-quality podcasts are rather hard to find, and good science podcasts are even scarcer.

Chris Lindsay said: “Many of the early episodes were a bit too complex or difficult to understand (content-wise mainly, not production-wise)”
I can’t agree less with that opinion. There are hundreds of thousands of biologists, biochemists, physicians, nurses and pharmacists out there, and some of them are personally interested in the new advancements in research in disciplines other than theirs. They’d like to listen first hand to the leading scientists directly involved in that research to explain their work and their personal experiences, taking their time to describe the more revealing details when required or just for the sake of gazing how things work. As Steven Jay Gould used to say, “beauty is in the details”.

By: Monkey

Monkey — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 04:24:28 +0000

…he didnt expand on the connection between obesity and no bacteria. Was this cut out? It seemed he was going there and then left it hanging…id like to see some more discussion about this.

By: Monkey

Monkey — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 04:20:01 +0000

Totally represents “science”, doesnt it? We find one piece of science (H.Pylori = ulcer) , but that leads us to the next (predicts cancer) and on to the next….

Amazing listen, and while I wanted the end to be a “so…this is what we need to do to make this all better”, I appreciate all the work and brain hours spent getting this far into understanding the microbial symbiosis with multicellular lie.

I wanted you to ask the question – which is worse? If we cant opt for lots of H.pylori in youth and then none in older years, which is the worst of the two situations? Asthma kills, ulcers cause discomfort. No?

By: Chris Lindsay

Chris Lindsay — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 22:48:05 +0000

It’s a shame that MtS podcast will be going away. I’m still behind on catching up with the back-catalogue of episodes, but I thought the past 8-10 episodes were really good. Many of the early episodes were a bit too complex or difficult to understand (content-wise mainly, not production-wise). I’ll be sure to go back and download the episodes and dump them in my new iPod (which won’t be for a week or so), so don’t delete them off the server yet!

[CZ: Chris, not to worry, the podcasts aren't going anywhere. And thanks!]

By: M Caro

M Caro — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 03:12:31 +0000

Thank you for an enlightening, entertaining year of tiny creatures. Now I can also say that I welcome our microbial overlords. Cheers.