A lie will travel around the world before the truth can even get its' shoes on

These are based on FFQs, which are completely unreliable. One of the ones they used is the Nurses’ Health Study, and they simply applied some formula to adherence to what they think is a "Mediterranean" diet.

There is just so much wrong with this.

They'd just dismiss it as part of the conspiracy. And Facebook and other platforms (like Reddit) aren't in it to educate, they are in it to drive engagement. With truth or lies, they couldn't care less.

I would have to do another home test because I have trouble falling asleep before 6 am even with the meds. I think they based saying it was moderate on how far my blood oxygen fell but I'm sure they tracked the events too. It was enough to get the cpap machine but I have a quite low pressure they told me, around 5.5 whatever the units are, the mercury one I believe.

Since I have anxiety problems and have to use triazolam to even keep from not sleeping days and being totally incapacitated, it could be worth the diagnostics to see what they can do about making sure I get deep phase sleep.

Is there a reason bots haven't been used to combat misinformation? Is it just that real info doesn't get as widely disseminated because it's less interesting than conspiracies?

That's absolutely not how science works. Give an animal an overdose of any medication or substance and it will die. You can even overdose on water. None of this gives any indication of the potential negative effects of a substance. What matters is to understand the effects of doses actually absorbed by organisms. Nobody would care about a study evaluating the safety of giving 100g of sugar per kg of body weight to children because that doesn't ever happen.

The answer is no. The question is not about detectable levels but about levels comparable to these leading to the effects in the article. The article itself mentions that the levels are not even remotely close to those found in any organism.

The irony that it’s always propaganda bots balancing Gates should not be lost on anyone. Critique the man if you must, but never go full Alex Jones, and woe upon those who just parrot the bots. I honestly can’t imagine living trapped inside such a web of lies, expect in the fact that most who are thus afflicted are often oblivious to their simple-minded gullibility and ignorance, if anything, they often believe the opposite. To have such certainty, and yet be so terribly wrong…

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Yeah but that means you were born in a world using leaded gasoline…

These compounds are so small I imagine you could fill a pill with it to avoid the overwhelming sweet taste to get up to the recommended doses if it worked.

That is pretty cool, overactive immune systems can be debilitating, and these sugar substitutes are so common, and the costs are going down with use in drinks, it probably would be a pretty inexpensive intervention too.

I read through and the implication that a low-cost intervention like this would have literally ANY impact on diabetes is amazing.

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The flame retardant is great for global warming!

The early science of threats like this, cigarettes, pesticides, climate change, etc always have to first prove the effect. Later studies can then determine levels and risks.

However given what we know of cigarettes and climate change we can assume the companies making the product are years ahead of well publicised science.

Along with the pollution and micro fibre threats it also affects fire safety. For instance I have read that in the 1950s average time to flashover (when enough heat is generated from a fire to spontaneously ignite other objects) was 25 minutes. And it is now 15. This is due to the amount of oil in a modern house - carpets, furniture, clothing, etc being made of oil products; polyester, plastic, etc, as opposed to the slower to ignite products like wool, wood, etc.

Ironically cars and resulting congestion means that for the city I heard this discussed about (Auckland, New Zealand), in the 1950 a fire engine could reach any house in 15 mi utes but it is now up to 30 minutes at times of the day.

Which regions are worse?

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How do people think AIs can function in that space? I get that people are hopeful, but I don't understand why yet.

Conspiracy theory has a wide breadth. If something is hidden without obvious reason, then people should ask why that is the case. I'm for transparency, and I want data that backs up whatever is said or hidden. I will try to look at all sides and try to understand why that is. But you are correct, most people do not look for real data or information, because that's more difficult to do.

Sometimes it may be for a greater good, or something like SARS-CoV-2, and a 419-0 vote to see something hidden why? Sometimes it may be because of outside influence on the subject, or classified technology...

Moderate is anywhere from 15-29. May not be a bad idea to do another sleep test and see where you're sitting.

Huh, I just so happened to pick this book out of the donation bin at my apartment last month. Been meaning to give it a read

In high doses, yes — but not in doses so high that it would be absolutely infeasible for a person to consume.

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"In high doses" is the salient fact here.

I think in there would be the difference. I agree that they're not necessarily stupid or anything but, as im sure you're well aware, a good part of higher education is about comparing, contrasting, critiquing sources of information and compiling that into something to be marked by someone who has shown a sufficient skill in being able to to that aswell.

So, in general terms and not necessarily OPs cousin, I think uneducated is part of it and it does seem to the a recurring theme in the conspiracy type. I think it has to come with being at least just smart enough to be dangerous, often smarter, but also a with kind of arrogance and narcissism to convince themselves they know better about all these very in-depth subjects than virtually all the experts.

Although, some of them full on know its not true. The trouble is, theyre too far into the "big lie" now. So much of their personality is caught up in it, they could never back down, no matter what.