McGill science group takes aim at pharmacies for selling 'quack' flu remedy

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3. Which explains why so many other creatures continue.

Most species do just fine. Colds don't kill. And most diseases kill the weak or critters that have already reproduced.

Even if you argue that dogs have inner wisdom that tells them to chew particular plants for particular diseases (which is intriguing, since they've spread far beyond where they'd evolved and must have some sort of world-soul guiding their chewing habits ... making me wonder what the disease that slippers cure is, but I digress), then you still have to ponder how starfish ever survived. Or tuna.