Cover letter to the 3 diseases of Alzheimers, Parkinsons and Prion for future editing and revising to keep these two files in somewhat order: I am massively revising my website of www.iw.net/~a_plutonium because it is written in a textbook fashion that it requires massive editing and deleting and adding onto about every 5 years. I have neglected this website for about 10 years and so I have a big job ahead of me.My other website of www.archimedesplutonium.com needs no periodic editing because it is structured as a archive that I merely collect the posts I post and enter or dump it into the website. Archiving does not require editing because it wants to save everything whether correct or riddled with mistakes. Files 150 and 151 deal with Alzheimers Parkinsons and Prion disease. I was fortunate to have a running dialogue and conversation with at least 3 scientists et al from Berkeley and Cambridge Univ about these diseases starting with the year 1997 and specifically these dates: Oct-Nov 1997 Dec 1998 Feb-Mar 1999 Jan 2004 so anyone interested in that long history can view it at www.archimedesplutonium.com website under those dates. I must have had over 2,000 posts to the internet in conversations with 3 or more scientists about these 3 diseases. And my old practice of filling File150 and File151 with many of those past posts is just not practical when I have to revise and edit so often. That practice must cease because my archived website handles all of those posts and no need to repeat those posts in this textbook website where I want to achieve understanding and clarity, not archivity. So that means I have to toss out old posts from this website and to attempt to keep it current and clear and short. Let me just remark on the history of Alzheimers, Parkinsons, and Prion. I dived into these 3 diseases back in October of 1997 noting the analogy similarity of a ant disease in the tropics where a fungus infects an ant's brain and kills the ant. I could not escape the notice of a analogy between fungus ant disease and Prion disease. My search for what causes prion disease then migrated theory-wise to thinking that Prion disease is the analogy to sickle cell anemia disease only with a deformed brain protein instead of deformed red blood cells. Theory migrated into many other theories and hypothesis but then recently is news not of Prion disease with metal-ions from phosmet and magnetic- manganese but news from Alzheimers from a PBS TV show in that the plaque buildup (much like prion buildup) is caused by a rogue scissors that wrongly snips the APP protein into 2 segments wherein the one segment ends up being toxic and the start of the buildup of Alzheimers plaques. So, is there a similar scissors mechanism or scissors- like mechanism that causes Prion disease? So I left the discussion of Alzheimers, Parkinsons, Prion in January of 2004 with the open issue of a Scissors mechanism for Alzheimers and whether Parkinsons and Prion also have a scissors mechanism and whether magnetic-manganese is the metal-ion culprit that causes Prion disease and whether Parkinsons and Alzheimers also have a metal-ion facilitator culprit such as perhaps aluminum or other metal-ions. One of the issues I stressed and harped and harped on from 1997 to present day is that the Nobel prize to Prusiner for his Prion theory was a prize that was way way too premature and huge mistake. To have given the Nobel to Prusiner was so premature, that the Nobel should have given a prize to any lead researcher of Alzheimers circa 1995 to 1997 and to have given a prize to any lead researcher for Parkinsons disease circa 1995- 1997 because in the 1990s it was widely recognized that both Alzheimers and Parkinsons are unsolved, likewise it is easy to see that Prion was also unsolved and that the Prusiner award was so big of a mistake and that the science behind it was utterly lacking and it was pushed and pushed due to the Mad-Cow outbreak in England. Science recognition should never be held hostage to epidemic events in the world for that is making science a passing fad or fashion whereas the awarding should be for thorough understanding. The reason the Nobel Committee never awarded Alzheimers or Parkinsons from 1990-2003 was because the mechanism for Alzheimers and Parkinsons are still not understood even as of March 2004 but it is fair to say that the understanding of Alzheimers is even more advanced than the understanding of Prion disease. Prion is not understand even to this very day, yet the Nobel Committee blustered and rammed ahead giving a prize out for Prion disease when it never should have. The Nobel to Prusiner is one of the worst Nobel awards ever given because it causes the scientists in that field to ever have to go back and say "well the Prusiner model is wrong and just ignore it". The Nobel Committee in giving Prusiner the award were more rambunctious and impetuous than Mr. Bush wanting to invade Iraq in 2003. In fact, it can be argued that mf.Bush had more grounds to invade Iraq than the Nobel Committee had grounds to award Mr. Prusiner on the science of Prion disease. And it is ironic that Mr. Blix is from Sweden where the Nobel Committee is and that Mr. Blix is laying it straight as far as the groundless and baseless claims of Weapons of Mass Destruction. So, if Mr. Blix had chaired the Nobel Committee in the 1990s, he may well have averted another large mistake by ignoring the sirens call to award Prusiner for his model. One other item I want to mention for Files 150 and 151 is that in that history of 1997 on Prion disease, is that I attacked the Prusiner Model on two grounds and it is these two grounds which convinced me back in 1997 that the Prusiner Model is a complete fake. (1) Thermodynamically it is impossible for a bad-prion- molecule to convert a good-prion-molecule into an identical copy. The energy equation just does not give enough energy for a similar protein to alter a different protein into a identical copy. Just not enough energy for the interaction. On the other hand, a DNA molecule or RNA molecule possess enough energy dynamics to cause other molecules to convert in an interaction. (2) If prion proteins really did what the Prusiner Model says then the lowest form of life is not the cell or DNA or RNA but proteins like prion-proteins because replication or reproduction is the main distinguishing characteristic of life. And the Prusiner Model is that a protein thence becomes the lowest form of life and makes the cell and DNA as excess baggage. And if that were true, then we should see in the world around us not just a few protein molecules that have a Prusiner-behaviour but many molecules that have a Prusiner method of replicating. On those two ground above convinced me that the Prusiner Model was a fake and that it is only a matter of time before the true mechanism of how Prion disease and how Parkinsons and Alzheimers work. Also I need to note that I suspect that Prion, Parkinsons and Alzheimers are different but that they are very much alike in several similarities. So that a mechanism of how each works may have a family resemblance. Such that if metal-ions plays a key role in Prion disease it is likely that metal-ions plays a role in Parkinsons and Alzheimers and likewise for the scissors mechanism in Alzheimers probably has a scissors mechanism to be found in Parkinsons (perhaps even Huntington) and Prion. I believe these 3 diseases are related and have family resemblances more than they are dissimilar. Archimedes Plutonium whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies (www.iw.net/~a_plutonium) website of the science of AP under revision what used to be my old science website www.newphys.se/elektromagnum/physics/LudwigPlutonium from years 1993 to 2004