Sean Murphy
@murphyslaw1987.bsky.social
Philosopher w/ focus on disease causation (esp. clusters). I completed Mark Purdey’s research project by identifying the true environmental causes (oil pollution, pesticides, mercury, & mycotoxins) of “Huntington’s Disease” at Lake Maracaibo.
Given that this wasn’t published in a scientific journal, nor peer reviewed, why did you ignore earlier published, peer reviewed research demonstrating a time restricted ketogenic diet effective at treating/partially reversing a variety of Huntington’s Disease symptoms?
October 1, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Given that this wasn’t published in a scientific journal, nor peer reviewed, why did you ignore earlier published, peer reviewed research demonstrating a time restricted ketogenic diet effective at treating/partially reversing a variety of Huntington’s Disease symptoms?
First time, eh? Even though this one came before it? Hmm…
September 30, 2025 at 4:34 AM
First time, eh? Even though this one came before it? Hmm…
Anybody have any idea what would possess a scientist with impressive credentials to erroneously claim that the results of some study which were carefully measured and reported by multiple researchers were merely self-reported by their patient, instead? Asking for Dr. Rachel Harding. Thanks.
September 30, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Anybody have any idea what would possess a scientist with impressive credentials to erroneously claim that the results of some study which were carefully measured and reported by multiple researchers were merely self-reported by their patient, instead? Asking for Dr. Rachel Harding. Thanks.
My take on the alleged Huntington’s Disease breakthrough:
September 25, 2025 at 9:25 PM
My take on the alleged Huntington’s Disease breakthrough:
The Rouen ducks have grown a bit:
August 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
The Rouen ducks have grown a bit:
Since smelling salts have apparently just been banned from the NFL, I thought I’d share my take on them from years ago, and their (thus far officially unacknowledged) potential link to CTE symptoms. CTE researchers never told me why I was wrong, only insisted that I must be. Go figure.
August 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Since smelling salts have apparently just been banned from the NFL, I thought I’d share my take on them from years ago, and their (thus far officially unacknowledged) potential link to CTE symptoms. CTE researchers never told me why I was wrong, only insisted that I must be. Go figure.
What I’ve been busy with lately:
July 16, 2025 at 8:06 AM
What I’ve been busy with lately:
If you’re not familiar with the origin story of Chronic Wasting Disease, and how it supports my take on prion diseases more generally, here’s Mark Purdey breaking it down for you:
June 22, 2025 at 2:03 PM
If you’re not familiar with the origin story of Chronic Wasting Disease, and how it supports my take on prion diseases more generally, here’s Mark Purdey breaking it down for you:
Although it wouldn’t surprise me if Shell used this same excuse, too, I might have been thinking of PDVSA, instead. My bad:
June 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Although it wouldn’t surprise me if Shell used this same excuse, too, I might have been thinking of PDVSA, instead. My bad:
For whatever reason, Williams, like Kwakye, fails to mention that the clustering in Venezuela (which she does acknowledge) also impacts a fishing population. Considering that they both have to know as much (it’s no secret, after all), why would they omit it after the Minamata comparison? Anyone?
June 15, 2025 at 7:58 AM
For whatever reason, Williams, like Kwakye, fails to mention that the clustering in Venezuela (which she does acknowledge) also impacts a fishing population. Considering that they both have to know as much (it’s no secret, after all), why would they omit it after the Minamata comparison? Anyone?
Kwakye isn’t the only person who likens Huntington’s Disease to Minamata Disease while ignoring the documented mercury pollution in Lake Maracaibo. Dr. Blairanne Williams (also from Vanderbilt) makes the same comparison in her dissertation.
June 15, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Kwakye isn’t the only person who likens Huntington’s Disease to Minamata Disease while ignoring the documented mercury pollution in Lake Maracaibo. Dr. Blairanne Williams (also from Vanderbilt) makes the same comparison in her dissertation.
Then again, perhaps I’m giving Kwakye too much credit. After all, how does he omit 1) the occupation (fishing) that was impacted elsewhere, and 2) that it’s likewise a fishing population that’s impacted at Lake Maracaibo? Way to undersell the analogy, no? Also, why not call it “Minamata Disease”?
June 15, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Then again, perhaps I’m giving Kwakye too much credit. After all, how does he omit 1) the occupation (fishing) that was impacted elsewhere, and 2) that it’s likewise a fishing population that’s impacted at Lake Maracaibo? Way to undersell the analogy, no? Also, why not call it “Minamata Disease”?
If Kwakye knows what’s really causing the clustering at Lake Maracaibo, why doesn’t he just say so? Pretty dishonest to not even acknowledge the Maracaibo clustering (which he clearly knows about) as the true reason for investigating the vanadium/Huntington’s Disease connection at Oberlin.
June 14, 2025 at 12:07 PM
If Kwakye knows what’s really causing the clustering at Lake Maracaibo, why doesn’t he just say so? Pretty dishonest to not even acknowledge the Maracaibo clustering (which he clearly knows about) as the true reason for investigating the vanadium/Huntington’s Disease connection at Oberlin.
I didn’t exactly say a whole lot about vanadium pollution in Lake Maracaibo back in 2015 (& I still see no reason to believe it’s any more relevant than the mercury pollution there), but I didn’t ignore it, either. Note that I was then blaming the heavy metals more generally, not one in particular.
June 14, 2025 at 8:05 AM
I didn’t exactly say a whole lot about vanadium pollution in Lake Maracaibo back in 2015 (& I still see no reason to believe it’s any more relevant than the mercury pollution there), but I didn’t ignore it, either. Note that I was then blaming the heavy metals more generally, not one in particular.
I’ve posted a bit about Gunnar Kwakye (Chair of Neuroscience at Oberlin) before, because he also suggests that the Lake Maracaibo cluster is similar to the Minamata Disease clustering in Japan. Here’s what one of his students was just working on. Hmm…
June 14, 2025 at 7:55 AM
I’ve posted a bit about Gunnar Kwakye (Chair of Neuroscience at Oberlin) before, because he also suggests that the Lake Maracaibo cluster is similar to the Minamata Disease clustering in Japan. Here’s what one of his students was just working on. Hmm…
Pretty sure it’s the hormone connection. And I say this as somebody with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome and a history of hormone complications who has looked into the EDS/hormone connection a bit (low testosterone is apparently pretty common in biological males with either Ehlers Danlos or Marfan Syndrome).
June 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Pretty sure it’s the hormone connection. And I say this as somebody with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome and a history of hormone complications who has looked into the EDS/hormone connection a bit (low testosterone is apparently pretty common in biological males with either Ehlers Danlos or Marfan Syndrome).
Although headaches don’t appear to be strongly associated with Huntington’s Disease, they are a typical complication of mercury poisoning. Headaches are apparently also pretty common in the Antioquia Alzheimer’s cluster. And what do we know about Antioquia and mercury pollution problems from mining?
June 12, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Although headaches don’t appear to be strongly associated with Huntington’s Disease, they are a typical complication of mercury poisoning. Headaches are apparently also pretty common in the Antioquia Alzheimer’s cluster. And what do we know about Antioquia and mercury pollution problems from mining?
The eugenicist responsible for diagnosing the Lake Maracaibo fishing population with Huntington’s Disease, Americo Negrette, noted that headaches were strongly linked to “el mal” (aka Huntington’s). But does research on HD support this connection? Not so far as I can tell.
June 12, 2025 at 8:42 AM
The eugenicist responsible for diagnosing the Lake Maracaibo fishing population with Huntington’s Disease, Americo Negrette, noted that headaches were strongly linked to “el mal” (aka Huntington’s). But does research on HD support this connection? Not so far as I can tell.
Their last update was in 2022. I’d be shocked if they ever publish any research on manganese and Indigenous health, and even more shocked if it’s any good/actually acknowledges all the earlier research their website would suggest is nonexistent. I’d love for them to prove me wrong, but they won’t.
June 11, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Their last update was in 2022. I’d be shocked if they ever publish any research on manganese and Indigenous health, and even more shocked if it’s any good/actually acknowledges all the earlier research their website would suggest is nonexistent. I’d love for them to prove me wrong, but they won’t.
Whereas their first research on Quoll was published a year after their project started, and they published more research on quolls since then, they’ve apparently never published anything regarding the Indigenous population on Groote, and are no longer updating their blog. Hmm…
June 11, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Whereas their first research on Quoll was published a year after their project started, and they published more research on quolls since then, they’ve apparently never published anything regarding the Indigenous population on Groote, and are no longer updating their blog. Hmm…