You’re welcome!

But yeah I think derived drugs are the way to go in the long run, infecting someone with actual parasites can be a bit of a can of worms (pun intended) although not nearly as bad as it sounds like

I did some digging and can’t for the life of me find that clinical trial I was thinking of so I might just be remembering it wrong, but I do know there’s a lot of interest in parasite-derived immunomodulatory molecules, which interestingly do often seem to be derived from helminth excretions or secretions.

This 2022 Frontiers in Parasitology article titled Immunomodulatory and biological properties of helminth-derived small molecules: Potential applications in diagnostics and therapeutics seems like a good review of the current situation.

Gardner felt healthy, but he decided to check himself for parasites, as one looks for ticks after a hike. He put a sample of his own feces on a microscope slide and peered through the glass. Immediately, he was shocked: Hidden within the sample were clusters of tiny, light-yellow eggs.

“I’m used to looking at that with regular animals,” says Gardner. “But I’m not a regular animal—I’m me!”

It’s a shame that parasitology isn’t more “popular”, just from a discovery standpoint there’s a lot of potential for all sorts of eg. immunomodulatory drugs there, and I have a vague memory that there’s already clinical trials underway for a drug related to autoimmune diseases that was derived from how some parasite shuts off parts of the host immune system

Conservatives are an existential threat. Their ideology is going to lead to the destruction of modern industrialized societies and the death of billions one way or another

Billionaire argues that the system that made him rich and caused all of our problems is also the solution to the problems. Right.

TL;DR: a parasite blaming the host for issues it has caused