Ok, David. I'm mostly useless in maths and astronomy. But here I can step in. I am, in fact, credentialed in the medical field. I'm not going to bother posting 5 pages of rebuttal, because frankly it's been done pretty well already, and I dont' feel like wasting my time re-inventing the wheel.

But instead of chasing around quackery and every situation in the world where A and B live together on the same planet, we, with our extremely limited funding, are too busy conducting studies and trying to find cures for cancer, luekemia, AIDS/HIV, hell, the common cold, you know, the situations where we can demonstrate causality, that A causes B, to chase around woo-woo hypotheticals like if the known amount of living ninjas and malaria are linked.

Do you have any conception of how much as study costs? Do you wonder why there're always fund-raisers on TV? It costs bloody money, like "the worth of 3rd world countries" money. If you think a study should be done, I have a proposition for you. You just come up with the funding, and I can secure all of the biologists, Doctors, Nurses, Lab Techs, etc... you need. You seem to think starting a study is a relatively simple procedure, and haven't adressed funding. So, you work on that end, and get back to us when you have gathered the 10's (if not 100's) of millions needed to commision the resource wasting venture. I'll be waiting with the team, so get back to us whenever you're ready to commision it.

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