I’m from PA, lyme is pretty common here.
One of my friends moved to Seattle, and one when he came back to visit family he managed to catch it.
Apparently he got a call from the state health department in Washington after he got his test results back basically asking “where the hell did you get Lyme disease”
He told them he’d been in PA, and they were basically like “ok yeah that checks out”
It’s not even the first lizard based medicine. There was also Byetta, which was based on gila monster saliva. It’s a diabetes drug that was one of the first to also be useful for weight loss.
Yup, you probably already know this but Gila monster saliva is the main part of the research that led to the creation of ozempic!
Wow, I knew I had eastern fence lizards around my house (I’m in TN), but I never would’ve guessed the western variety is named exactly the same! I wonder if the eastern variety has similar results
Side tangent, looking up a picture of eastern fence lizard seems to also show results for western fence lizards TITLED as eastern fence lizards since according to google the primary difference between them is the color the males have on their belly (blue being western, green being eastern)
You never thought that Star Trek plots were allegories simply plucked from the headlines of the day?
Okay. So what inspired And So the Children Shall Lead? (TOS, third season.)
It’s about children getting possessed and murdering everybody.
Oh. And Threshold’s Salamander-Children. (Voyager. Janeway topped Paris and created a new hyper advanced evolution of…humanity…?)
Roddenberry loved his god-like children plots. Charlie X. Trelane. Even Q. Every time he had writers block, he’d spew out another one of those.
Wesley wast the worst of these. (and a total write-in.)
TOS? VOY! Just bleed Janeway and Paris dry!
Marie Batel might have a word or two to contribute.
My first thought was VOY when they became lizards too!
I think I missed that ubuntu release…
It’s a Stargate Universe plot, even
