The New Yorker has an interesting article on "tangle diseases" -- Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and A.L.S. Paul Cox, an ethnobotanist, and not a professional neurologists, hypothesizes that those who suffer from tangle diseases -- classified because of the similar ways that neurofibrillary matter is tangled -- is the result of absorbing neurotoxins in our diet. Mainstream scientists have significant problems with Cox's research, written up with Oliver Sacks. But it makes for a good story, and I'm always a sucker for a good unified theory.
Posted by mastr at April 7, 2005 11:51 AM