Is the Government fumigating us with fungus?

I received this in an email from a friend the other day. It reeks of crackpot paranoia, but I can’t find anything on Snopes. So I thought the Dopers might like to take a crack at it.


There is a simple diagnostic test for the infection (the biologics nanotechnology) which can be performed for approximately $10 in materials. This is not a joke, this is extremely serious.

Using a simple red-wine mouth rinse, you can yield complex nanofibers from your gums which appear to be of fungal form containing complex internal sub-micron filament structure. EVERYONE TO DATE IS POSITIVE FOR THIS TEST. THIS COULD POTENTIALLY INCLUDE BILLIONS OF PEOPLE. THE PATHOGENS MUST BE IDENTIFIED IMMEDIATELY. PLEASE HELP WITH THIS EFFORT WE NEED ACCESS TO DARKFIELD MICROSCOPES, CRYO-TEM, AND POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION (PCR).

Preliminary data indicates fungal form identity with similarity to fusarium solani and the ‘DRIP clade’, as well as possible association with weaponized mycoplasm and anodized aluminum oxide (AAO) nanotechnology. Further data indicates chemtrails infection mimics trypanosomiasis and protothecosis with synthetic features.

I REPEAT THIS IS A HIGHLY ADVANCED GOVERNMENT BIOLOGICAL AND ATMOSPHERIC WEAPONS SYSTEM IN USE AGAINST THE GENERAL PUBLIC

No one can be excluded from infection. Brush your teeth well. Rinse with water. Then Rinse your mouth vigorously for 5 minutes with 1 tsp peroxide, 2 tsp Merlot red wine. Prepare to be shocked and upset that the nanotechnology you spit out, and you may want to send a thank you note to Lockheed-Martin and their fellow war criminals

Nanofibers? Is that what the crackpots are calling epithelial cells these days?

The belief (or at least as presented here) strikes me as similar in many ways to delusional parasitosis

Merlot? Is that a new variety from Fort Detrick?

Most of the message reads like a random and meaningless assembly of technical jargon. A fungus is far more complex than anything that has been produced in a nanotechnology lab.

Hmm. Any indication from the email as to why exactly the government is employing these highly advanced bioweapons against the general public? I’ve always wondered about the chain of reasoning behind these theories. Is it that the government just loves to make us miserable, and taxation+election years just ain’t getting the job done any more?

So to crack this wide open they need access to any reasonably modern life sciences lab? There must be thousands of labs across the world that have these facilites, many of them in universtities and so on. One would have thought that if all they need is a few curious PhD students willing to spend some time after hours investigating cheek scrapings then this would have been thoroughly documented in double-quick time. Unless either everyone with lab access is in on the plot too :eek: or it’s all a load of bullshit :inconcievable:

Actually, I now realise that I am less interested in the convoluted logic behind this tosh than I am in getting an ‘inconceivable’ smiley. Can we start a campaign?

Oops. Missed seeing that word on first reading.

Yeah, that’s crackpot conspiracy nutjobbery at its finest.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/000616.html

Wasn’t there someone on this message board a few years back who posted photos of mysterious fibres he was finding in, or on his body?

As for the OP; a waste of perfectly good wine. And time.

There was - and that was the first time I encountered the term. It was quite an interesting thread, IIRC.

Here it is. Unfortunately, many of the external links are now dead.

It’s all explained in the link posted in the OP:

See? It’s all perfectly reasonable. Count this as a vote for the ‘inconceivable’ smiley.

So, exactly what nanotechnology is one supposed to spit out after performing the test mentioned in the mail? How’s it supposed to look like? Do I have to use Merlot, or would a Cabernet Sauvignon do the trick as well?

Take two yards of tinfoil and call me in the morning.

Scroll down 'til you see the glass slide full of red gunk. (Link taken from site given by the OP).

Ah thanks, I couldn’t work up the energy to read the provided link any further than the first paragraph.
A pity you have to use a $10 bottle of wine for the test, so my cheap bum juice apparently won’t work…

I’m curious, though. How’d it look like if you just mixed peroxide and red wine, and stir?

Dunno - but the whole thing sounds like the adverts for Dentyl mouthwash - it comes in a bottle separated into two distinct layers which you shake to (sort of) emulsify, then when you swill it around and spit it into the bowl, you see lots of coloured blobs of apparently solid matter.

They started off claiming this was plaque and other gunk that the stuff actively pulled off your teeth, but I think the advertising standards folks must have waded in and now they just say “You won’t believe what you see in the sink when you spit it out”, with the strong implication that the stuff you see was lurking in your mouth all along.
I’m pretty sure all it is, though, is congealed lumps of muck resulting from a reaction between the mouthwash and ordinary saliva - certainly it happens even if you repeatedly use it.

That’s my figuring – sorta like the gunk (yay toxins!) ear candles and those electrolytic foot baths are supposed to ‘pull out’ of your body.

On a side note, spitting out blobs of apparently solid matter every morning doesn’t sound terribly appealing no matter what.

Well, you did a lot better than me…

Incidentally, I have noticed that some red wines (generally the very dry ones) will cause a rather odd saliva-coagulation effect without any need for H2O2. Perhaps I can contribute by working my way through the entire red wine section of my supermarket to identify which vintages and grape varieties offer such self-contained nano-myco-detection capabilities.

Yes, that and no where near enough of us watch the congressional debates on C-Span.

Please get right on that. Report back to us here whenever you are sober enough that you only see one keyboard.

To the OP: I work for a private biotech company that gets zero government funding. The linked site is gibberish which is obvious if you read a couple of sentences and if you know anything at all about molecular biology, cell biology, or physiology.

It reminds me of nothing so much as this.

Only CALIFORNIA to eliminate all the crackpots there.

Wait a minute. They want me to drink some wine, fine. But then they want me to spit it out??? Are they mad???

Yeah, that’s what they told me at the winery too. I don’t know what the hell they were thinking. Spit out free wine? Yeah, I’ll get right on that.