The Horrifying Science of Prions

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  • @darkscienceyt
    @darkscienceyt  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

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    • @SeenDiving
      @SeenDiving 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      it has great reviews, i just d/led it

    • @PlanetComputer
      @PlanetComputer 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      if this video is about what i think it is (the risk of eating beef and other large prion risk animals) you are based bro

    • @LOL_MANN
      @LOL_MANN 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Nah, too much AI G

    • @existentialcrisisactor
      @existentialcrisisactor 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Na. AI made you so lazy you didn't even bother to learn what prions are.

    • @dgmt1
      @dgmt1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      imagine being so desperate for cash that you'd whore yourself for an app that spews out generic crap with no fact checking.

  • @ChairmanMeow1
    @ChairmanMeow1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1251

    Feeding cows to cows seems uh... immoral.

    • @monkofdarktimes
      @monkofdarktimes 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +199

      Beef Squared

    • @armanada7600
      @armanada7600 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +93

      and this immoral move came back to bite us, yes?

    • @Marta1Buck
      @Marta1Buck 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      ba dum tss@@monkofdarktimes

    • @GrumpyIan
      @GrumpyIan 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      What do you think is done with chickens that passed away?

    • @mushyroom9569
      @mushyroom9569 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Why?

  • @user-ef9tb3ph6w
    @user-ef9tb3ph6w 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +699

    My prions don’t jiggle jiggle, they fold

    • @timelessdragon8950
      @timelessdragon8950 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Remix baby!

    • @just.8797
      @just.8797 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Ha

    • @felixstone3.14
      @felixstone3.14 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      *dies in agony*

    • @Sharp931
      @Sharp931 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Slaps

    • @Introverted_Art
      @Introverted_Art 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Broski why 😂

  • @GryphonSmith-mk6dv
    @GryphonSmith-mk6dv 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +828

    Prions are such a scary thing, but in reality, any neurological degradation disease is scary.

    • @mushyroom9569
      @mushyroom9569 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

      But most of them aren’t contagious

    • @zee9709
      @zee9709 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      scary because this thing are so potent similar to rabies

    • @JokerDoom
      @JokerDoom 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Sure, but most are age related or genetic. I’m not concerned about getting Alzheimers at 35. This is an actual threat to me, and potentially my whole family.

    • @Sharp931
      @Sharp931 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      At least it's quite rare in Europe

    • @rosemiller417
      @rosemiller417 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Yeah. But one that can spread between Species and is hard to destroy, it's damn scary. And a real Pain for Hospitals operating on affected Patients.
      When you don't get rid of all Prion on the Instruments, which goes far beyond standard sterilization, you could easily screw next in Line Patient on your Op Table!

  • @jokotri2186
    @jokotri2186 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +395

    I've heard cannibalism is a bad thing since I was a kid, today I just found out why.
    Weird that I never knew the reason behind it except that it was immoral.

    • @westong9082
      @westong9082 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +51

      well not to defend cannibalism obviously, but it doesn’t cause prions outright, just causes them to spread if they are already in a population.

    • @c14n_
      @c14n_ 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

      It’s just as infectious when eating an infected animal. This cannibalism thing is mostly a meat industry PR thing. Sheep MGM had been thought to have played a part in the cow outbreak

    • @Ad_Inferno
      @Ad_Inferno 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      ​@@c14n_ This is exactly correct. I gotta dig back into my memory banks on it, but I was the court reporter on a class action trial here in Canada related to the outbreak of BSE here, and one of the experts we heard gave extensive evidence about the role that scrapie was believed to have played.

    • @cxireen2193
      @cxireen2193 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Same with Incest. Same with Necro/Pedo/Zoo/Filipinofilia

    • @Failurefaust
      @Failurefaust 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

      to be fair, prions aren't the reason why cannibalism is viewed as bad. Many societies look down on it way before we learned prions are a thing

  • @19822andy
    @19822andy 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +394

    I remember the whole thing like it was yesterday. Thick smoke filled the air as piles of cows 10s of metres thick burned. Our school replaced their beef items with lamb ones for years. Beef was stigmatised and beef with bones such as the rib eye steak was banned.
    The scariest thing is there could be a generation of us who will die from vCJD and we don't even know it yet.

    • @thatsnodildo1974
      @thatsnodildo1974 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      That's scary.

    • @neptun2810
      @neptun2810 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

      I'm not so sure about generations of people getting vCJD in the future. I do understand that this stuff can take decades before it breaks out. But we see a decline in the cases that is related to us figuring out what the cause of vCJD was. A delayed outbreak of the diseas makes perfect sense, but what would make no sense is the outbreak going back, as it did, and then suddenly returning.

    • @sigiligus
      @sigiligus 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Hehe, yeah, there’s definitely a generation of people whose genes might be at risk for some crazy shit like this.

    • @thomasdonovan3580
      @thomasdonovan3580 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I was working at the largest meat plant in the world Brooks Alberta Canada when Mad Cow broke out, we all lost our jobs within weeks.

    • @sqlexp
      @sqlexp 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It won't surprise me if we later find that certain forms of Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and many other neurodegenerative diseases can be caused by prions. Eat pork instead of beef just to be safe. Pigs are resistant to prions.

  • @Unchained_Alice
    @Unchained_Alice 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +319

    Who could have imagined feeding cows to cows would be a bad idea...

    • @Mark_Bates
      @Mark_Bates 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Precisely. That’s exactly how the disease started. Cannablism is bad no matter what species is doing it

    • @SOOKIE42069
      @SOOKIE42069 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      it gets so much worse than just this on the typical industrial farm. there's vats of pig shit millions of gallons big that are just sitting out in the sun breeding the most powerful bacteria you've ever encountered, there's chickens packed so tightly together they kill and eat each other to get more room, etc etc. It's possible to buy exclusively meat that hasn't been treated horribly before slaughter but it is pricey as heck and even then sometimes you go look at their supply chain to check their claims and find out one of their farms is dachau or something.

    • @ericcarabetta1161
      @ericcarabetta1161 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Don’t they feed fish to fish, too?

    • @thehybrid210
      @thehybrid210 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      It isn't. The problem isn't feeding cows to cows, but feeding contaminated food to cows

    • @investidoramador9850
      @investidoramador9850 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      didnt we see that iin the simpsons before

  • @hasanrize
    @hasanrize 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +100

    The scariest part of prion for me is its stability. Let's say you have virus stock in your hand (in the laboratory) and you want to destroy it, you just need to add SDS, Virkon, alcohol (if the volume is small), etc, and they are inactivated. You can autoclave (1atm 121 degree Celsius) whatever shit is in your hand (viruses, bacteria, fungi, etc.), and they will be dead at the end. But prions are not vulnerable to any of those chemicals or heat that are included in the inactivation. Once you have it, you have to follow strict ways to destroy it, and if you accidentally get it, there is no way to prevent what will happen later to you.

    • @sigiligus
      @sigiligus 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Once you have it you are guaranteed to die from it unless something else kills you first. The only conceivable way to treat it would be with nanomachines that could actually find and manually destroy the prions. Although that technology will probably never happen.

    • @kimlarso
      @kimlarso 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Read research on viruses eating viruses, bacteria eating bacteria, venom/anti venom 👉just gotta fight fire w fire & find a leads harmful to humans prion

  • @ericw3517
    @ericw3517 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +96

    Prions scare the crap out of me. I could have already eaten the fatal hamburger, and I won't know for years.

    • @thehybrid210
      @thehybrid210 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      If you had eaten, you would've showed neurological disorders within weeks and would've died within a year

    • @catoverlords9560
      @catoverlords9560 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Not always true, prions can have a decades long incubation period. ​@@thehybrid210

    • @SurferBobbyLew
      @SurferBobbyLew 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Not true your body if healthy and well nourished and functioning well has mechanisms to deal with misfolded proteins. If your concerned FAST and up regulate autophagy. Prion disease occurs when the rate of misfolding generation has outstripped bodies ability to remove and degrade

    • @salamanderhillbillyweasel1629
      @salamanderhillbillyweasel1629 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Prions kill you within like 2 years max

  • @helenpixels
    @helenpixels 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +118

    Who might have thought that forcing herbivores to cannibalize would be a bad idea. Horrible.

    • @peta8219
      @peta8219 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      Well, herbivores sometimes eat meat, but i get your point

    • @cAiRo7LoGic
      @cAiRo7LoGic หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      We're Omnivores. That's why we have K9 teeth.

    • @RynaxAlien
      @RynaxAlien หลายเดือนก่อน

      Go vegan

    • @trevorrogers95
      @trevorrogers95 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@RynaxAlienNo

    • @RynaxAlien
      @RynaxAlien 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@trevorrogers95 th-cam.com/video/8gqwpfEcBjI/w-d-xo.html

  • @amberbush1999
    @amberbush1999 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +224

    Chronic Wasting Disease in deer is another example of this too.

    • @byronic-heroine
      @byronic-heroine 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Does that mean deer eat each other? 😳

    • @Ad_Inferno
      @Ad_Inferno 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +46

      ​@@byronic-heroine In the case of deer, they're not entirely sure but sounds like prions are most likely transmissible through bodily fluids and contaminated soil. That said, though, virtually every herbivore is an opportunistic omnivore (deer are known to chew on bones for minerals, for example), so it's not impossible that a deer might eat infected meat directly.

    • @RynaxAlien
      @RynaxAlien หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Go vegan

    • @kimlarso
      @kimlarso 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@Ad_InfernoI’ve observed my beloved red Cardinal partaking of road kill👉every animal eats meat/protein

    • @trevorrogers95
      @trevorrogers95 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@RynaxAlienNo I enjoy taking care of my chickens and getting to collect and eat their eggs and won’t let some weirdo on the internet try to rob me of that.

  • @AmmaSoelberg
    @AmmaSoelberg หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    I remember hearing about the disease as a small child, maybe 4, and then asked how the cows caught it. Learning that enough adults thought feeding dead cows to other living cows was not only ok but a good idea genuinely shifted my perspective on adults. I began to think very critically and be very weary of the decisions of adults, you never know what someone would do if others around them acquiesce.

  • @Marta1Buck
    @Marta1Buck 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +88

    they still ask you if you have ever lived in UK for 6 months or more when you're donating blood.

    • @sadib4782
      @sadib4782 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      yep, my mom lived there for a while in 92 and still to this day she’s not allowed to donate blood, it’s not allowed in canada.

  • @flipphone4755
    @flipphone4755 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +90

    Prions are fascinating! No cure and nearly impossible to destroy. They’re a perfect monster.

    • @thehybrid210
      @thehybrid210 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      The only reason it isn't the perfect bioweapon is due to its very limited transmission, not being able to infect a good amount of hosts. So we've got to stick with bacteria and viruses for now

    • @pants15
      @pants15 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      @@thehybrid210 They've been finding Spike proteins are forming into prions in humans over the last two years now. There's been a few NHS and CDC studies on the matter.

    • @kimlarso
      @kimlarso 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@pants15fighting fire w fire👉experimenting w a less harmful prion to fight a deadly prion👉qualifies as a “gain of function”

  • @sharonrigs7999
    @sharonrigs7999 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +81

    You didn't discuss Kuru...another fatal prion disease caused by cannibalism.
    That would make a great video.

    • @Mark_Bates
      @Mark_Bates 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      As I said on a different comment cannablism is bad no matter what species does it

    • @annak9646
      @annak9646 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yes he did - Kuru is prion disease

    • @sharonrigs7999
      @sharonrigs7999 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      @@annak9646 No shit. I just said that

    • @sigiligus
      @sigiligus 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They’re all the same disease you fucking tard. The name is just where it came from.

  • @brianthesnail3815
    @brianthesnail3815 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    In the early 1980s I worked in an animal feed mill in the UK. I worked in the laboratory and we used meat and bone meal to increase protein in the feed. It was cooked to high temperatures. I also came from a farming background and had also dipped sheep with organophosphate sheep dips. It was illegal not to dip sheep and farmers were prosecuted. Some farmers it was theorised did suffer neurological conditions because of exposure to organophosphate sheep dip. Then after the appearance of BSE the organophosphate sheep dips were suddenly withdrawn. There was an article in the Lancet in 1999 about cumulative impact of exposure to organophosphate sheep dips on people. I am unsure whether it has ever been completely proved that sheep neural tissue, brain and other tissue fed to cattle via meat and bone meal could have been the source of BSE. I am also unsure whether potential links to organophosphates in sheep tissue were ever ruled out. I am still unclear if we have ever got to the bottom of why BSE really appeared and why it had not been seen to the extent it was before the 1990s. There is still a lot we don't know and I have never seen any reference to a thorough investigation.

    • @thorr18BEM
      @thorr18BEM หลายเดือนก่อน

      I was once coated in organophosphates.

    • @awg7068
      @awg7068 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Scrapies in sheep (spongiform encephalopathy ) was seen in sheep first, as 'downer' sheep were rended and put into the feed of living sheep. This was also done with cow feed, and eventually downer cows were rended for feed as well. Prior to industrialized farming, this practice was not done.

  • @zage932
    @zage932 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +167

    MCD is terrifying

    • @darkscienceyt
      @darkscienceyt  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      Very much

    • @igoralmeida9136
      @igoralmeida9136 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      just don't be a cannibal and don't eat cannibal animals

    • @Nohandleentered
      @Nohandleentered 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      McDonald’s is definitely the scariest thing out there

    • @ricojes
      @ricojes 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I'm... Lovin' it?

    • @rosemiller417
      @rosemiller417 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      But how to be sure? Cannibalism isn't the only cause of Prion Infection. Even if it's the safest Way to get it. Interspecies transmission and accidental exposure on the Op Table.
      Prions are a Pain, standard sterilization Practice are useless.
      Chronic wasting Disease, Deer, and Scrappy in Sheep are also Prions.
      It's really on the Farms to safely spot, check and dispose of ill Stock. And to watch the Herd close afterwards as precaution.
      We only start to understand.

  • @cyber_robot889
    @cyber_robot889 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +115

    Its not only beef, but also other animals.

    • @AlteryxGaming
      @AlteryxGaming 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

      Scrapies in sheep, and Chronic Wasting in deer

    • @schizophrenic_rambler
      @schizophrenic_rambler 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      And kuru

    • @eggrollsoup
      @eggrollsoup 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      @@AlteryxGaminggood thing chronic wasting and scrapies hasn’t affected humans.

    • @Ad_Inferno
      @Ad_Inferno 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@eggrollsoupvCJD is literally just other prion diseases manifesting in humans, though. So that's a distinction without a difference.

    • @chrisdavidson911
      @chrisdavidson911 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@eggrollsoup testing has shown it to be possible, but it's slow to happen

  • @roanotoole3631
    @roanotoole3631 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +70

    I actually just wrote a paper for my classes on prion diseases. There are animal ones such as Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy

    • @schizophrenic_rambler
      @schizophrenic_rambler 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Kuru

    • @icebiirb9440
      @icebiirb9440 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      tse is just the blanket term for prions? we call human ones that too, such as kuru

    • @VEV-cu6no
      @VEV-cu6no 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Can you link

    • @sigiligus
      @sigiligus 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Well your paper was shit because you apparently don’t even know that Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy is the actual name of the disease and that all the other names such as CJD and FFI are just specifics on how the TSE was acquired.

    • @rosemiller417
      @rosemiller417 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I looked Prions up on Google and Wiki.. TSE is the Blanket Term.
      Scrappy in Sheep, Chronic Wasting Disease in Deer are 2 other I read about.

  • @SOOKIE42069
    @SOOKIE42069 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    The thing that really terrifies me about prions is how they just hang around in the environment due to their immense stability. Here in Wisconsin the big source of prions is deer. Hunters and the DNR do their best to cull as many sick deer as possible but the reality is some deer are gonna die of the prion infection before they're found and then they're indistinguishable from any other rotting animal that died naturally. Not only will other animals potentially carry away its prions in their guts, but when the animal is fully rotted away the prions are still chilling right there in the soil. prions can be basically anywhere you could reasonably expect an animal capable of generating or carrying them to die.
    we could end all life on earth tomorrow with our hubris and the only things that would be left are prions and that ancient immortal dog that gets passed around as a sexually transmitted cancer. (ps a video about the immortal dog std tumor would be dope, I'm very fascinated by the question of whether the immortal cells that carry on to this day "count" as the same dog that they originated from. there's fun arguments either direction).

    • @rosemiller417
      @rosemiller417 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I mean somewhat, no. It's a Cell Line. How mutated are they from there former initial Host/Body. Is the Cancer DNA still same as from this one Dog? 😆
      2. Interesting mutant Cancer tragedy of a Facial Cancer in Tasmanian Devils. Transmitted via biting. It puts real Pressure on the remaining Population.

    • @kimlarso
      @kimlarso 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Immortal dog????

  • @bobbler2
    @bobbler2 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

    What if someone feed human to cows would cows get mad human disease

    • @shivalishankersharma1562
      @shivalishankersharma1562 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Parallel universe theory

    • @ljt3084
      @ljt3084 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      Nah, they get Karen disease.

    • @naomisherred166
      @naomisherred166 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Or maybe turn into a politician 😂

    • @Osama-Bon-Jovi-01
      @Osama-Bon-Jovi-01 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      You have to feed the humans to eachother first

  • @DustinHaning
    @DustinHaning 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    My next door neighbor died from this a few years ago. Totally insane how that happened.

  • @Ad_Inferno
    @Ad_Inferno 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I was the court reporter a couple years ago on a Canadian class action lawsuit related to our federal government's handling of BSE. The real tragic thing is it devastated our beef industry, for no reason. The one infected cow being found - which was purchased from the UK - was enough, even though, according to the witnesses I heard from, feeding cows MBM was almost unheard of in this country, out of principle more than anything else. Farmers were simply understandably wary of feeding their cows something so far removed from their natural diet.

  • @Kopecky_
    @Kopecky_ หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    It feels like the video suddenly stops, like it doesn't have a proper ending

  • @Edgeworthscravat
    @Edgeworthscravat 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I was young when the BSE crisis hit the UK. I remember my dad complaining that he couldn't get T bone steak any more, and my mum making us go off beef for a while. I didn't realize how bad the response was from the government at the time...

    • @naomisherred166
      @naomisherred166 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I was 20 and was so busy with work etc didn't really follow news. Luckily I couldn't afford beef at the time so feel pretty lucky. Our govt is rubbish at responding to anything lol

  • @teresamaher1953
    @teresamaher1953 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    There is an amazing book that shows how BSE and TSE, Scrapie and most importantly Kuru developed.
    Kuru being a form of vCJD that occurred in the New Guinea highlands in the 1950's.
    I highly recommend it if you want an in depth look at this tragedy.
    It's called Deadly Feasts, can't find my copy to include the author's name, but it is chilling because Kuru was spread by cannibalism in New Guinea.

    • @Eosinophyllis
      @Eosinophyllis 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The family that couldn’t sleep is a good one too!

    • @rosemiller417
      @rosemiller417 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Do you mean Fatal familial Insomnia?
      It's a horrible genetic misfortune. Bad Way to go. Loosing the ability to sleep at all until you die of Sleep Deprivation, for sure.

  • @magnuslunzer2335
    @magnuslunzer2335 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +58

    yo that stuff caused a lot of beef back then

    • @vedran3775
      @vedran3775 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

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    • @capralmarines4043
      @capralmarines4043 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      💀

    • @WarFoxThunder
      @WarFoxThunder 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      LMAO

    • @professionaleejit5927
      @professionaleejit5927 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      The steaks were quite high

    • @kimlarso
      @kimlarso 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

      😂

  • @The1_Hellhound
    @The1_Hellhound 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    It's always a good day when you learn disturbing science, not because you're a psycho or something. But because you see how people fail and unfortunately lives end, but as a result, we learn from these unfortunate events and move forward with new precautions.

  • @nikeprojock
    @nikeprojock 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

    gross i didn't know they fed cows other cows that is just unethical and demented. who thought that was a good idea

    • @cattoduke6286
      @cattoduke6286 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      It's definitely a bad idea, but how is it unethical tho? Most animals, cows included, will just eat anything edible.

    • @nikeprojock
      @nikeprojock 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      @@cattoduke6286 unethical because cows don’t know any better, like someone made that decision they don’t have ethics if that’s how they were raised

    • @ButchyCantYouSee
      @ButchyCantYouSee 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@nikeprojock I don't think applying human perception to animals is a worthwhile way of thinking, I mean what humans find right or wrong is ultimately just a subjective reality not an objective one, what is considered evil today might be normal a few hundred years from now or less, honestly morality is nonsense but it does provide stability atleast among the poor or middle class, rich mfkers still love waging war & killin kids 😂

    • @cattoduke6286
      @cattoduke6286 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@nikeprojock exactly. Cows don't know any better, they don't have the slightest problem eating other cows at all. It's not like the farmers force feed them or sth.

    • @nikeprojock
      @nikeprojock 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@cattoduke6286 you are wild, that is exactly what they are doing

  • @vyzme
    @vyzme 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    This video jumps all over the place with the naming of the prion disease and simply makes the video confusing and factually incorrect at times.
    The prion disease that was found in the cows was called bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease).
    The prion disease that humans contracted through contaminated meat consumption in the U.K. is called Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD).
    Most cases of CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease) are SPORADIC. 2:35 - only 15% of CJD cases are genetic or inherited, while the majority of CJD cases are caused by unknown reasons (sporadic).
    4:14 - This is simply false. The prion disease you are talking about is called "Kuru" (transmissible spongiform encephalopathies); it differs from CJD. Kuru is exclusive to Papua New Guinea because some tribes practiced cannibalism, and Kuru would spread from a contaminated person to those who consumed it. There's no evidence that sporadic CJD can be transmitted from person to person. However, there is evidence that vCJD can spread from person to person, usually via contaminated medical tools (spine taps).
    To explain once more, vCJD was caused by mad cow disease in the U.K. It's different from sporadic CJD, but it shares similar traits. Kuru is a completely different form of prion disease and is not related to CJD.
    A rather poorly and unclearly made video on a rather interesting topic.

    • @matttheyak
      @matttheyak 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Probably generated via the sponsor's AI

    • @Jerry-qj5fk
      @Jerry-qj5fk 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That’s what I thought when I looked at his sources.

    • @ZirconiaGacha
      @ZirconiaGacha หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I did research on prion diseases so I could write about something I was passionate about for my little speech (it was like a short version of a TED talk on something science related). I chose to narrow it down to chronic wasting disease in cervids, but I had a section on general prion diseases, since at their core they are all the same (misfolded proteins as the cause, through one form or another). From my research for something in HIGH SCHOOL, Kuru was specifically spread through cannibalism, but prion diseases in general are sporadic. While I didn't look deeply into Kuru, I did notice a few things. Different prion diseases in humans are named/categorized by small changes in spread and symptoms.
      Fatal insomnia causes you to be unable to sleep on top of everything else, and while I didn't see Kuru's symptoms, I wouldn't be surprised if it had nearly exactly the same symptoms as most other human prion diseases, but was identified as something different because of the unique circumstances that caused it to spread (cannibalism still occurring in Papua).
      He even got the idea of prions being completely indestructible wrong, unless every single other source I've seen (including some really reputable ones such as the CDC) is wrong, which say that they can be destroyed (or at least heavily neutralized) by extremely high temperatures. So while he was right about cooking not being enough, being completely unable to get rid of existing prions is just incorrect.

  • @jhpratt
    @jhpratt 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    Please add scales to graphs. They are meaningless without them.

    • @Douglas_413
      @Douglas_413 หลายเดือนก่อน

      🤓🤓🤓

  • @memyselfandeye76
    @memyselfandeye76 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Whoever threw that traffic cone at the cops is a beast. They're heavy as hell!

  • @rizkyp
    @rizkyp 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Reusing infected beef as feed is stupid.

  • @boogrs55
    @boogrs55 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    And this also shows that if people were to be seriously be pissed off by the government they could just overthrow said government

  • @Unbeatablejay
    @Unbeatablejay 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    Thank you for uploading this video I have been having such a a horrible week (not a basic bad week a downright traumatizing week) and it made me so happy to see you upload

    • @thebeigesheep6132
      @thebeigesheep6132 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I hope you are ok

    • @Unbeatablejay
      @Unbeatablejay 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@thebeigesheep6132 I wish you nothing but love and happiness

    • @thebeigesheep6132
      @thebeigesheep6132 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@Unbeatablejay having a hard time too. I'm trying. Hope things get better for u this week

    • @markdombrovan8849
      @markdombrovan8849 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I hope next week is even more memorable than your last one!

  • @nuodso
    @nuodso 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    Creu- in "Creutzfeldt" is pronounced like "croy", rhyming with soy, boy and Roy.

    • @MoolsDogTwoOfficial
      @MoolsDogTwoOfficial 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      “soy, boy” xd

    • @sevenmillionhobbies7840
      @sevenmillionhobbies7840 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Croit’s felt?

    • @nuodso
      @nuodso 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@sevenmillionhobbies7840Correct

    • @ljt3084
      @ljt3084 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      And Jakob is pronounced with a Y.
      Yakob.

  • @PeiPeisMom
    @PeiPeisMom 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    I remember giving blood here in the US in '96, and them asking me on a questionnaire if I'd been in the UK any time in the last 10 years

  • @jtgd
    @jtgd 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    “Help, I’ve folded and can’t unfold!”

  • @juhokleemola5961
    @juhokleemola5961 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    These vids never seem to disappoint. Great job.

  • @Gaminguide1000
    @Gaminguide1000 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    at the start of the video you said that CJD increases the amount of prions being created. Does that mean everyone has prions? and if yes, how do our bodys stop it from killing us, and why does this protection mechanism not work with vCJD?
    Asking anyone who reads this btw, im very interested in such topics

    • @kimlarso
      @kimlarso 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Just as all people do not get cancer not all will get folded prions or perhaps already have other prions that keep the deadly prions at bay acting like venom/anti venom

  • @b.o.e.t.h.i.u.s
    @b.o.e.t.h.i.u.s หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The people were angry that the government didn’t - do enough? They wanted public health protections? Boy times have changed. “But what about the freedom to get sick? I’ll never wear a mask!” 😂

  • @Guenter34
    @Guenter34 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks for another video! I always look forward to them. They're really calming and interesting!

  • @gammaarmy9547
    @gammaarmy9547 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I think this might explain why Otto Warmbier died after being sent back from North Korea. He might have been fed prions which negatively impacted his healthy state, hence probably why the North Koreans stated that Otto had botulism. Besides the American student was in North Korea for a good 17 months, that's more than enough time for prions to become fatal.
    (He also had scans done of his brain, which had severe neurological injury and defective cells, which makes the so-called "botulism" seem credible to have prions)

  • @PersonstuckinMichigan
    @PersonstuckinMichigan 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    The thing from Plague Inc?

    • @2fifty533
      @2fifty533 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      yeah definitely from plague inc

    • @bruwyvn
      @bruwyvn 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      The prions from Plague Inc are so OP they turned into a real thing

  • @jasonhall7491
    @jasonhall7491 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    TypeAI scares me more than any prion.

  • @lukeahn0330
    @lukeahn0330 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Lets go, it's a Dark Science upload on a Friday.

  • @VEV-cu6no
    @VEV-cu6no 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I was just reading about TSEs and Kuru. Thanks for the video!

  • @pinonpine9460
    @pinonpine9460 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I just heard this guy tell me that hydrogen bonds are strong...... my man do you know what a covalent bond IS?

  • @ALA9E
    @ALA9E 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Why are they feeding protein to grass feeders! Their systems are not made for processing meat!

  • @som-ludoed
    @som-ludoed 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    по моему это из симпсонов когда клоун Красти вызвал зомби вспышку когда кормил коров коровами и сделал бургеры

  • @benmcreynolds8581
    @benmcreynolds8581 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I will always eat meat and I love science but prions truly are one of the most terrifying things I've ever learned about.. To learn just misfolded proteins can cause a run away effect with in your body in a very hidden manner.. You might not know for years after being exposed.. It's the trippiest thing ever and I wish we had ways to not only treat this stuff but also treat or prevent dementia.. My grandma a few years ago succumbed to a rare form of very aggressive fast on set type of dementia.. It made me so motivated to want to help learn and study how to understand and evolve our grasp of dementia..

  • @Khether0001
    @Khether0001 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This video is absolutely amazing, I never quite understood the Mad Cow disease, knew it had to do with caninbalism, but your explanation is just incredible! thank you and congratulations!!!

  • @jayl5032
    @jayl5032 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    There are 3 things I fear in this world.
    1. MY WIFE.
    2. Prions
    3. Rabies.
    4. MY WIFE with the former 2 entries.

    • @user-kn9yy3ee2p
      @user-kn9yy3ee2p 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      There seems to be a common dinominator here

    • @fuzbeatboxern5714
      @fuzbeatboxern5714 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      God

    • @emilywenig4390
      @emilywenig4390 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Cancer, ALS, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's...

    • @kimlarso
      @kimlarso 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Rabies!!!

    • @anidnmeno
      @anidnmeno 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      if you're _afraid_ of your wife, i've got bad news for you

  • @xcoder1122
    @xcoder1122 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This video ignores the true origin of BSE. That prions are formed by accident in human beings or in cattle can happen but is super rare. Yet it happens way more often in sheep, where the illness they cause is known as "scrapie". In sheep this illness is known since 1732. And the most probably cause of BSE was, that sheep parts were also processed into cattle food. That sheep are more prone to forming prions has genetic reasons and may be a cause of breeding performed by human beings. Which is enforced by the fact that some sheep species are more prone to it than others and those more prone are those that did undergo more breeding by human beings. So that's how BSE started and only from there it was cattle to cattle transmission by processing cattle remains as cattle food.

  • @Parhel1on
    @Parhel1on 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Commentary: Thank you for providing me with an extensive coverage of this subject.
    Observation: You claim you use AI to improve your writing.
    8:29 “Public outrage rose to anger.”
    Maybe you shouldn’t.

  • @cloudywolf9738
    @cloudywolf9738 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I remember when this was going on when I was a kid, it was terrifying.

  • @user-bh2df6zb8p
    @user-bh2df6zb8p 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Why would you fed cow another cow in first place wtf?

    • @emilywenig4390
      @emilywenig4390 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      To save money of course!

  • @rhythm5080
    @rhythm5080 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Wow I never knew before today that cows were involuntary cannibals

  • @Blackearbaiya
    @Blackearbaiya 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Yeah i think if the cattle industry was a bit more coniderate (like why tf would they let cows eat beef) maybe prions would affect humans less

    • @joycebrewer4150
      @joycebrewer4150 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Not a matter of "letting" cattle eat cattle. They blended bone and meat meal into rations fed to feed lot cattle. They thought it was a shortcut to get cattle to market weight faster, providing protein directly, rather than the animal have to make it from ingredients in plants.

  • @SeenDiving
    @SeenDiving 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Another banger video! 💯

  • @noodlery7034
    @noodlery7034 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    bruh why would you feed cow to cow

  • @sucukmitei5436
    @sucukmitei5436 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Can you make a video of refined sugar or artificial sweeteners, or even better maybe compare them both?

  • @MrJimmyMcGill
    @MrJimmyMcGill 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great work on these videos

  • @theactualegg
    @theactualegg 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Moral of the story: don’t feed animals food made from their own species 😭

  • @FlameDarkfire
    @FlameDarkfire 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Conservative governments and downplaying a spiraling disaster; name a more iconic duo.

  • @TieWolf
    @TieWolf 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The way you pronounced "bison" just gave away what part of the U.S. you are from. haha
    My partner is from NY state and:
    - Bison
    - Documentary
    - Elementary
    are the words that drives me nuts how he pronounces them. I guess some are super regional to Western NY.

  • @mkamback
    @mkamback 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I love this channel SO much. Please keep making more content like this! 🤘

  • @wentoneisendon6502
    @wentoneisendon6502 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    IV products in the UK are still subject to BSE screenings

  • @chemist27
    @chemist27 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    8:55 I almost thought that this was Dan cooper , although he looks very similar. But he is Paul Keating prime minister of Australia

  • @gavinshannn636
    @gavinshannn636 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is the video I deeply requested since I found this channel. Thank you

  • @alex_tremo255
    @alex_tremo255 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I was excited for you to talk about prions

  • @omgitzpaige2013
    @omgitzpaige2013 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    the timeline shows this basically peaked when my mother was pregnant with me (1995-1996) im blessed we weren’t affected

  • @johnlane3872
    @johnlane3872 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Best science channel on the Platform Period

  • @flippi_flobija
    @flippi_flobija 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Babe, wake up! Dark Science posted new video!

  • @emma_jamieson20
    @emma_jamieson20 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Ah yes my homeland, Schotland XD

  • @vanceat
    @vanceat หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I bet during that time, we had prion non-believers that would claim that the Government should not he controlling what people can and cannot eat.

  • @normajeancaballero7959
    @normajeancaballero7959 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I remember this Mad Cow Disease threat. 😨

  • @xVarkenx
    @xVarkenx 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Where was the background music?

  • @monstandalone7339
    @monstandalone7339 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    No insult but prions are like "I'll try spinning that's a good trick"

  • @ease12
    @ease12 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    amazing videeo as always

  • @matttheyak
    @matttheyak 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    8:56 Image of 90's Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating... completely unrelated to the topic but ok.

  • @theredrighteye4380
    @theredrighteye4380 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    This reminds me of this one Simpsons episode

  • @joaquincruz7559
    @joaquincruz7559 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Do they take 2 weeks to mutate like plague inc?

  • @jackbotman
    @jackbotman 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The steaks have never been higher

  • @Shadowiann_
    @Shadowiann_ 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    me as a person in the caretaker fan project community resisting the urge to say "vCJD":

  • @jplouthelgm5156
    @jplouthelgm5156 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Putting your 4-year-old daughter's life in jeopardy for a political stunt. 👍

  • @fatstar111
    @fatstar111 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Its CJD in humans, BSE affects cows. Creutzfeld Jakcob Disease. Am sure Ive spelt that wrong but that's how its pronounced

  • @GlassSandwichTV
    @GlassSandwichTV 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Lions mane, it grows new brain cells.

  • @prions_arent_cool_man
    @prions_arent_cool_man 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    i just got home from school and i was teaching them about prions like every other week and i get home and find this?? HOLY BLACKFLIPPING DUCKS THAT CAN BREATHE FIRE, MY INTEREST HAS BEEN SATISFIED-

  • @Volundur9567
    @Volundur9567 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Add to this that prions can't be easily destroyed. They remain in soil and can contaminate produce.

  • @hoko9787
    @hoko9787 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You should do a video on Diphenhydramine (DPH), i just feel itd be interesting

  • @greatkingrat
    @greatkingrat 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    0:43 that’s a strange spelling of Scotland.

    • @FleshWizard69420
      @FleshWizard69420 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      "Schotland" _💀_

    • @samuelcheung4799
      @samuelcheung4799 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Quite a German one. We call it "Schottland".

  • @KigurumiAlice
    @KigurumiAlice 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Blood and brain diseases in cannblism in chimp and humans. Also scary

  • @cedricvelarde
    @cedricvelarde 7 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    Prion to protein: wululu

  • @doomlordkaka
    @doomlordkaka 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    after all these years i understand mad cows disease and why i shouldnt eat other people.

    • @Atimoz
      @Atimoz 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It’s not the only reason to not eat other people

  • @Kodoro_
    @Kodoro_ 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Such a great video

  • @naingaung2748
    @naingaung2748 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Hehe. “Sussex”5:58
    Edit: one of my favorite diseases. So fascinating

  • @superviola88
    @superviola88 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    7:58 insufficient evidence... sounds familiar..

  • @Ser-Vex131
    @Ser-Vex131 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Weird to think i could have ended up with prions when i was a toddler if my mother wasn't careful.

  • @atiffayyadh4654
    @atiffayyadh4654 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    12 sec ago is crazy