There's some drama about Maduro hyping it as a Venezuelan COVID cure, but I can't find anything about it. Besides (per Wikipedia) maybe it's a synonym for carvacrol/isothymol. Capitalist stranglehold on science suppressing the facts or is he actually just telling everyone to drink oregano oil?

  • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Turns out crops don't thrive when you plant them all in the same hole in an attempt to foster some sort of plant based communism.

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      no, but it's pretty amazing what they're learning about forests lately. trees communicating and sharing resources with each other

      https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/02/magazine/tree-communication-mycorrhiza.html

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Not that exploring that type of stuff is bad, just maybe don't immediately retool your existing food production based on questionable science.

        Trees are definitely communist though

        • notwikinotbot [comrade/them]
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          4 years ago

          It's not just trees, there's some studies about "parasitic mycorrhizae" that show they're only parasitic when you look at one time point. For example, a seedling of a herbaceous plant can "steal" carbon from a neighboring mature tree with mycorrhizae to get established, but then when that plant is more mature it gives carbon back to other plants in the network.