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Re:Venom and Hot Peppers Offer a Key to Killing Resistant Ba... by pelf on Monday May 11, 2026 @09:57AM (#48095095)
Do you happen to have a source for that? I’d love to check it.
Re:Venom and Hot Peppers Offer a Key to Killing Resistant Ba... by tmoertel on Monday May 11, 2026 @10:37AM (#48095582)
It's the New York Times article that's linked to in this HN post about “the Interstitium”:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48095536

Re:Venom and Hot Peppers Offer a Key to Killing Resistant Ba... by om2 on Monday May 11, 2026 @11:27AM (#48096298)
That article doesn’t explain why acupuncture works, just gives a hint of a possible mechanism. It also doesn’t contain any evidence that acupuncture works at all (other than as a placebo).
Re:Venom and Hot Peppers Offer a Key to Killing Resistant Ba... by NDlurker on Monday May 11, 2026 @12:38PM (#48097300)
Radiolab did a show on that a couple years ago. Pretty interesting listen.

https://radiolab.org/podcast/interstitium

They also did an episode about rapamycin that I thought was really cool. I had no idea the history of it and found it fascinating and it really gets the imagination going thinking about what other things are hidden all around us.

https://radiolab.org/podcast/dirty-drug-and-ice-cream-tub