Given this; and I only gave it a cursory look, why hasn’t this been picked up by a university?

That’s a great question. I wrote more about it here: https://forum.humanmicrobiome.info/threads/continued-letters-and-complaints-to-the-fda-nih-and-hhs-jan-2025-fmt.842/. It appears to be primarily incompetence and apathy. The FMT donor quality situation requires unique action, and they’ve shown an unwillingness to do that.

There’s also pharmaceutical industry influence and other monied interests, including by academics themselves: https://forum.humanmicrobiome.info/tags/research-industrial-complex/

Second, what motive does the FDA have to stall an effective medicine?

They may not be purposefully stalling it. FMT is very unique from other things they regulate, and they haven’t shown any interest in creating FMT-specific/appropriate regulation. There’s little pressure on them to do so, so they may just be playing it safe and not taking any risks that might cause public outcry.

Regarding the current administration, they may be lying about ending the chronic disease crisis:

• https://forum.humanmicrobiome.info/threads/rfk-jrs-maha-project-funnels-millions-from-public-health-to-private-we.1101/
• https://forum.humanmicrobiome.info/threads/rfk-jr-hosts-roundtable-on-long-covid-sep-18-2025.1182/
• https://forum.humanmicrobiome.info/threads/priorities-for-a-new-fda-martin-makary-vinay-prasad-jun-2025.1146/
• https://forum.humanmicrobiome.info/threads/fda-names-former-pharmaceutical-company-executive-dr-george-tidmarsh-t.1129/
• https://forum.humanmicrobiome.info/threads/us-fda-makarys-pharma-ceo-tour-goes-against-transparency-rhetoric-may.1097/

Dad had been a medical-researcher: he taught me to think.

He didn’t teach you very well. Stop spreading harmful misinformation.

And to the people upvoting the misinformation, you really need to do some basic research and critical thinking first. Why would there be hundreds of FMT clinical trials around the world for curing chronic diseases if it were so easy with probiotics? Why would 60%+ of Americans have a chronic disease if you could simply cure them with probiotics?

It makes it seem very possible that the comment and upvotes above are deliberate astroturfing by the pharmaceutical industry.

There’s an existing cure for most chronic diseases. Unfortunately, no one seems to care, so it will likely never be available.

OP, given your knowledge of news media, perhaps you have some ideas of how to get coverage of the issue? I’ve written to dozens of news outlets about it.

I had lots of important content I posted to reddit, as did other members of the community. The subs I ran weren’t fluff subs.