What have Obelisks ever done to you? Our first reaction shouldn't be to kill everything we don't understand :'(
Good pragmatic question though. It's not clear if any drugs up- or down-regulate Obelisk genome copy, you could re-investigate other drug-treatment studies to see if Obelisks incidentally present are altered and get an "accidental" study.
From a molecular perspective, the most likely compounds and methods would be those which work against viroid replication (i.e. RNA polymerase inhibitors, translational inhibitors, CRISPR,...). You just have to maintain a preferential toxicity to Obelisks over host cells.
Well, you say they aren’t linked to IBS or Crohn’s, but there’s a difference between proving that they don’t all cause intestinal issues and eliminating every strain as a cause. It’s kind of embarrassing how recently h pylori was caught red handed.
Some people carry staph on their skin their whole life and never end up with a lesion.
This was not claimed. All that was stated is that its a new thing we know very little about, links to autoimmune disease have no immediate obvious connection, and to say anything more would require an investigation. What more can you expect?
Good pragmatic question though. It's not clear if any drugs up- or down-regulate Obelisk genome copy, you could re-investigate other drug-treatment studies to see if Obelisks incidentally present are altered and get an "accidental" study.
From a molecular perspective, the most likely compounds and methods would be those which work against viroid replication (i.e. RNA polymerase inhibitors, translational inhibitors, CRISPR,...). You just have to maintain a preferential toxicity to Obelisks over host cells.