[ababaian]

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.

[hinkley]

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.

[shwouchk]

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?