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  • This is actually a very promising thing that is currently in phase 2 trials for celiac disease. The main problem with it is that you have to give the patient what triggers his disease to unlearn the thing from the system. Meaning if you are deadly allergic, this would still kill you. Recent research suggests that really small doses can still help to reduce the immune response over time (study about peanut allergy if i remember correctly).

    My son was recently diagnosed with celiac. And although living with it is no big thing, and I’m not looking forward to him puking his guts out a few times, I’m hoping this will heal him permanently as celiac often is a cause for cancer later in life due to regular micro exposure. And celiac does not go away by itself right for that reason.

    I’m excited for my friends with multiple sclerosis. The medication helps keeping the disease in check, but they still have to go through some of the attacks. One of those inflammation attacks could be their last ever with this treatment.

    So: very hopeful, I have an alert on the study results, they are due any day now. The bookmark is on my desktop though, so might add that later if there is wider interest.



  • An interesting addendum to your question: this is not a exclusively US based phenomenon. In Germany there are the Reichsbürgers they have similar ideas.

    They think legally the state has no claim to rule and most people just don’t know they still live in the German Reich still.

    So they have their own king selling them passports and they have pretty aggressive group think to try and enforce their claims.

    My wife’s dad is one of them. The main thing I recognize comes from a pathological need to know better than everybody else. It’s very tightly coupled to their sense of worth and identity. They are better than everybody else because they have seen the light.

    Pretty culty behavior and just enough pseudo truth to keep simple minds saying “yeah there might be something there”. Like “vaccination causes autism, they just don’t want you to know”.

    Makes a loser in societies eyes, but a superhuman in their eyes. And yes, they still run into a wall and just keep trying to adjust their angle to hit that sacred sweet spot. Because now they need to prove how they are better and as they already have sacrificed so much they can’t be wrong to continue. (Just like a gambler who already lost a lot.)

    So it’s a few psychological dynamics that grip into each other like gears and that ratchet them ever so tightly to their belief until there is no turning back.


  • Funnily enough I have written a system to do exactly that as a bachelor’s theses for IT security.

    Places client certificates and a client inside the initrd and requests securely the key to unlock.

    The sever waits for you to approve the request before providing the key. The key is only held in memory during boot.

    I had a version that included for a hidden key provider and planned for a version that included time based auto unlocks etc.

    I was planning to package that and release it as open source.

    Still might do that.