Hasn't anybody on the show seen The Day the Earth Stood Still? Earth had just gave up hope when the aliens started dying. What killed them? GERMS! Germs that the earthling had anti-bodies to fight them. The aliens had not devoloped those anti-bodies. If the child grows up in a germ-free home how is she going to react to the outside world? Why wasn't that mentioned?
That WAS mentioned on the show! I believe that it was Dr. Phil himself that brought it up. He made the exact statement that if the immune system is not developed by contact with germs, like the boy in the plastic bubble, then as the child grows up and gets out into the world, they will have no immune system to fight back. How did you miss this?
P.S. This was discussed between Dr. Phil and one of the other doctor's.
Hasn't anybody on the show seen The Day the Earth Stood Still? Earth had just gave up hope when the aliens started dying. What killed them? GERMS! Germs that the earthling had anti-bodies to fight them. The aliens had not devoloped those anti-bodies. If the child grows up in a germ-free home how is she going to react to the outside world? Why wasn't that mentioned?
I've seen The Day the Earth Stood Still on TV quite a few times, but don't remember any aliens dying. War of the Worlds, of which I've seen two versions, does have the aliens stopped in their tracks by germs to which humans were immune. And, the doctors did say that Jennifer's excessive use of germicidal agents would keep her daughter's immune system from developing.
