A woman who can smell Parkinson's disease help scientists

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A Scottish woman who can smell Parkinson’s disease is helping scientists to create a faster detection test.

A Scottish woman who found she could detect Parkinson’s through smell has inspired scientists to develop a swab test that could be used to diagnose it.

Researchers in Manchester have created a new method which they say can detect the disease in three minutes.

Parkinson’s test: Woman who smelled disease on husband helps scientists

[Muddy]

I saw this on the news she must be very sensitive to smells dogs can detect some illnesses too .

[Maree]

What an achievement for her-, that must be very rewarding

Parkinson’s is a horrible disease

I wonder if she’s ever out socially and smells it on strangers and what she would do?

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@Maree

I wonder if she’s ever out socially and smells it on strangers and what she would do?

Good question. I asked your question in a slightly different hypothetical here.

If you could smell cancer on someone, would you tell them?

In another thread, there’s an article about a woman being able to smell Parkinson’s disease on people. Someone asked what the woman would do if she smelled it on someone in a social setting. For this hypothetical, I’m changing it to cancer because that’s more common. If you had the ability to smell cancer on someone accurately and smelled it on someone in a social setting, what would you do?

[Artangel]

I can’t read the article as it’s requesting that l sign in but…

I wonder what sort of smell it is?
Is it sickly, sweet or what?

[Dextrous63]

@Artangel

I wonder what sort of smell it is?
Is it sickly, sweet or what?

“He had this musty rather unpleasant smell especially round his shoulders and the back of his neck and his skin had definitely changed,” she said.

[Lyn1]

There is scientific evidence that humans can smell illness. But scam artists often use scientific facts to commit fraud. Look at the number of psychic frauds using half a scientific fact to uphold their scams.

Scientists have shown time & again, that they are not the best people to spot fraud when it comes to their experiments. Look at James Randi’s project Alpha for irrefutable evidence of that.

Project Alpha involved two magicians, Banacheck (Steve Shaw) & Mike Edwards being planted in a scientific study. Randi advised the magicians & he told the scientists what to look for. But despite being given things to look for & the two young magicians using the looked for techniques. The scientists did not spot the fraud. The scientists fell 100% for the scam describing the magicians as evidence that things such as Psychokinesis existed.

Scientists as their name suggests are about science. Not testing for scammers. So lets hope this woman is not just another scammer.