The Null Device

Tapeworms are good for you. Or so claims Japanese parasitologist Koichiro Fujita. After studying healthy yet parasite-infested children in Borneo, he was so convinced that the intestinal parasites have a positive symbiotic function that he introduced one into his own gut. Oddly enough, he is not having an easy time of selling his message to a broader public. (Though maybe tapeworm therapy will ultimately take its rightful place alongside trepanation and urine therapy.)

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