What Would We Do Without Experts?

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1. Olives for the win. Apparently, there aren’t any organizations out there adverse to olive consumption.

   1. The entire western medical cartel is against anything that makes people healthy.

   2. Olives with gin.

2. “At one point, she said: ‘CO₂ levels are off the charts high…'”

   Then your charts suck.

3. Also not mentioned is the quality of the studies…

4. CO2 is off the charts? One molecule of CO2 in a volume of air containing 2500 molecules of air? Unreal. BTW that is 400ppm, the current CO2 Concentration in the atmosphere.
   If that single molecule reflected back 25C,not really ,but let’s just say, the averaged out temperature change would be .001C.
   If one heated a cup of water to 30.00000C, and another to 30.001C, and dipped a finger in one then the other Feel the Burn
   What is wrong with these people.

   1. Wayne the answer to your question is, they are stupid.

5. What Ioannidis talked about in a number of his later studies is ‘selective analysis’ and ‘selective outcome reporting’ biases allow academics to push whatever result they want in a published nutritional or other type of medical study. Academics funded by governments and government scientists are conditioned to only push results about issues – e.g., climate change, cow farts, & eating beef are bad, etc. – that support regulations which politicians want to impose. As Steve Milloy would say, it’s incestuous and all junk science.

   1. Yeah, that’s the part the chart doesn’t capture. Of those studies, more than half are just plain garbage. In some fields that number rises to 95% garbage. The “findings” aren’t science, they are opinion or outright propaganda.

      -Salt- is carcinogenic? Come on. Salt is a dietary requirement. Calcium channel neurotransmitters and etc. The kidney runs by salt concentration. Its a long list.

      It would be nice if all the studies on a subject met basic scientific standards, but they don’t. “Modern Science” runs by reputation, politics, and grant money, not by science.

6. As usual, the PTBs are hiding the curative powers of hot-dogs.

7. 100% of all people who died of cancer breathed oxygen.

   Journalist, “Experts say oxygen increases your risk of dying from cancer.”

8. There is NO WAY to isolate one variable in the midst of thousands upon thousands of food, environmental, vaccine, and other bodily inputs. To pretend that you can is more about your ability to take grant money for research than any commitment to real science.

   1. Meh. Studies show that people who own custom built stainless Lugers chambered in .45 live longer than people who don’t own them, ergo buying one is a great hedge against an early death.

      1. My son-in-laws aunt shot herself through the heart.
         Her hospital death records indicate that the doctor listed extreme depression resulting in suicide because she feared she had the covid-19 virus. They got an extra $7,500 from the government.
         Her husband said it’s because she was drunk.
         Oh well what the hell.

         1. Hey, they aren’t mutually exclusive, F.L. Being depressed and drunk isn’t unheard of. Throw in delusional and you have perfect storm.

9. looking at bacon it appears Moe was correct of course he copied off the red sea pedestrians .

10. I guess I am dead, I eat two of three slices of bacon every morning with a couple of over-easy eggs cooked in butter. I am going on 79 years old and don’t intend to change the way I eat. I also eat fresh vegetables that have been steamed, lots of pork, beef, chicken and right now I am marinating quail to grill this evening along with little garlic-butter, baby potatoes. I think a reasonable varied diet is essential to good health and a glass or two of wine probably helps make the good stuff go down. The good thing about getting old is you kind of know you have already slid into home plate so the worrying time is over, now I am retired and just along for the ride and the fun of seeing my kids being great adults and grand critters growing up. More Bacon because I am grateful and thankful.

11. This is why I eat a balanced diet and don’t sweat the details.

12. ‘”Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.” ~ Richard P. Feynman

    “Science”, or what is called science today, which is really the logical fallacy appeal to authority, said you should only get 20% of your calories from fat, and the rest from carbohydrates. Result, obesity. Others ate the fat and stayed thin. They also had this whole food pyramid thing, peoples around the world have been eating in ways completely at odds with that and are fine, such as those that eat blood, milk, and meat, and that is pretty much it. We are omnivores and can eat pretty much anything. Ancient remains found in ancient peoples teeth showed whole areas that ate mostly meat, and whole other areas that ate mostly plants. It wasn’t fashion, as today, it was what was available.

13. I would find it interesting for the data categories to differentiate between foods containing chemicals and those without.

    My guess is that those without would have zero correlation to cancer incidents, and vice versa.

    Chemicals could be found in the packaging, pesticides applied, chemicals ingested by the animal, preservatives added, etc.