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Woman says faecal transplant saved her and could help many more like her (www.abc.net.au)
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The couple took Alex's faeces, blended it with saline, passed it through a sieve, put the slurry into an enema bottle and "then head down, bum up, squeeze it in"

Woman meets frog, frog leads woman to man, man and woman fall in love," she says.

"Man cures woman's incurable illness with his magic poo, thus breaking the curse.

I volunteered to donante my poop to my parter... Different outcome :(

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[–] Shayeta@feddit.org 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This anecdotal case is currently being used as a justification to FUND a study. Without miraculous cases like this it is very difficult to actually get your grants signed.

I wouldn't scoff at one-off cases like these, they carve the path for rigorous research.

[–] kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago

Oh yeah, by all means report on this case to the psychologist community. I'm saying you shouldn't just spread this everywhere and call it "news"; There's too many stupid people willing to do shit like feed their kinds bleach because they think it cures autism or some shit.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah there are plenty of time's that one-off case studies are vital to psychological scientific progress. Phineas Gage was crucial to early understandings of which parts of the brain did what, but we aren't exactly going to shoot railroad ties through people's head just to prove those things, are we?