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]]>At first sight, it looks like any other drool-inducing food video that you can find on Facebook. Only this time, the viral video promises to help you find out whether your food is fake or real using “16 easy tests to try at home.”
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]]>The headline warned of “LGBT progressivism horrors: Parents to start physically maiming their own babies to slice off all ‘gender’ organs in the name of progressivism and ‘equality.'” “The next escalation in this war on biology will, I predict, involve parents maiming their newborn infants by slicing off their penis and scrotum shortly after birth in order to ‘rid’ the child of gender inequality,” the author wrote, adding that parents will “commit felony assault against their own children with a scalpel and an ice pack…
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]]>Safe Or Scary? The Shifting Reputation Of Glyphosate, AKA Roundup
John Draper and I are sitting in the cab of a tractor on the research farm he manages for the University of Maryland, alongside the Chesapeake Bay. Behind us, there’s a sprayer. “So, away we go!” Draper says. He pushes a button, and we start to move.
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]]>The post 37 Bullshit Health Marketing Phrases You Should Ignore | by Dr Bill Sukala appeared first on Rationally Thinking Out Loud.
]]>” Clean eating!” ” Detox!” ” Get the body of your dreams in only five minutes a day!” Sound familiar? Yep, that’s health marketing in action… and it’s all bullshit. The truth is, marketing is meant to do one thing: sell products and services. Period.
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]]>Bernie Sanders in 2020? Here is his long history with pseudoscience
At 76 years old many assumed that 2016 would be the last time Bernie Sanders would run for office. The media told a different story today as it was reported that he gathered a team of advisers to discuss running for President again in 2020.
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]]>The post Chiropractors are bullshit | The Outline appeared first on Rationally Thinking Out Loud.
]]>The first time I dealt with a chiropractor was in 1999 at a mall kiosk, which seemed like an odd place to encounter a medical professional. I was a teenager working a few storefronts down selling butterfly clips, and I made the mistake of looking at one of the kiosk’s spinal models.
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]]>We’re used to Dr. Oz broadcasting outrageous, pseudoscientific ideas on his hugely popular daytime TV show, The Dr. Oz Show . The cardiac surgeon has for years devoted large amounts of airtime to peddling all sorts of suspect detoxes, diets, and other health misinformation. (He does sometimes offer good health information too.)
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]]>The post There is nothing wrong with MSG. It’s the Umami, the fifth taste. Nothing wrong with it at all and there never has been. appeared first on Rationally Thinking Out Loud.
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MSG myth – debunked with real science
Food additives are one of the most passionate issues amongst people who eat (which would be everyone). Aspartame. High fructose corn syrup. GMO ‘s. Salt. Sugar. Trans fats. Polysorbate 80. But the MSG myth is one of the most pervasive. Of course, these additives cause angst in people because of their scary chemical names.
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]]>The post Flat Earthers Setting a New Low For Ignorance And Stupidity appeared first on Rationally Thinking Out Loud.
]]>A short collection of videos I recently watched on engaging with flat-earthers…(This guy Victor from Brooklyn in videos one, two, and three is special! Wow)
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]]>Forget what you’ve heard: Turmeric seems to have zero medicinal properties
Turmeric has done the full circle: from ancient remedy to hipster Western drink. Even today, Indians readily apply it on fresh wounds, chicken-pox scabs, and insect bites. Medical professionals prescribe it for urological diseases, worm infections, and even cancer. Such has been the hype that the yellow-golden spice is widely touted as a validation of traditional medicine….
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]]>David Avocado Wolfe is the biggest asshole in the multiverse
With more than 11 million followers on Facebook, David “Avocado” Wolfe, the Sideshow Bob-haired, blender-hawking alternative-health guru, calls himself the “Rock Star and Indiana Jones of the superfood universe.” And he’s humble. You’ve undoubtedly seen one of his bullshit-filled posts or inspirational memes shared into your feed, but who – or more accurately, what – is David Avocado Wolfe?
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]]>The post Britt Hermes is a former naturopathic doctor and current actual scientist. This interview WILL blow your mind. appeared first on Rationally Thinking Out Loud.
]]>The post Britt Hermes is a former naturopathic doctor and current actual scientist. This interview WILL blow your mind. appeared first on Rationally Thinking Out Loud.
]]>The post A naturopath-midwife, homeopathy, and a dead newborn – Naturopathic Diaries appeared first on Rationally Thinking Out Loud.
]]>A naturopath-midwife, homeopathy, and a dead newborn
I recently learned that in May 2017, naturopath Anne Marie Palzer was pulled in front of the Arizona Naturopathic Physicians Medical Board for a tragic incident that occurred last year at her natural birthing center, Birth Haven at Life Spring Midwifery, where she is clinical director.
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]]>The post For Sore Throat, Xylitol and Probiotics Offer No Benefits Over Placebo – The New York Times appeared first on Rationally Thinking Out Loud.
]]>For Sore Throat, Xylitol and Probiotics Offer No Benefits Over Placebo
Xylitol, a popular sweetener in sugarless gum, and probiotics are sometimes recommended as remedies for sore throat, but a randomized trial has found that neither works better than a placebo. Researchers assigned 1,009 people with sore throats to one of three groups: no chewing gum, xylitol gum, or sorbitol gum without xylitol.
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]]>My head almost exploded and after extinguishing the fire I wrote…
While I am a dedicated prolific bare foot walker this is nonsense (on occasion I’ll walk barefooted in the snow). There is NO science to this “grounding” B.S. Absorbing free electrons from the ground through your feet??? WTF?
Walk barefooted through the grass because the moist kool grass feels great (but be careful about hidden acorns, they’re the outdoor equipment stepping on Legos inside). Walk barefooted through the sand because it is warm and relaxing. Walk barefooted in the snow because it’s an interesting sensation that reminds you you are alive.
The doctors talking in this video are quacks.
I think I spent something like 6 years in my late teens and early 20s barefoot when I working in the summer as a lifeguard and I still appreciate walking barefoot even today for the feeling, not for the fictitious supposed health benefits.
This video is so full of bullshit they even contradict themselves. This Dr. Stephen Sinatra is talking about walking barefoot so you can absorb electrons from the earth while this other guy a few minutes in named Clint Ober, a “Grounding Pioneer” is talking about grounding as a way to dissipate built-up electrons to the earth by grounding. Which is it? Who wrote and made this incredibly stupid video. They need to be fired!
Ober then goes on to say he went to the local library to look up information about “grounding” and there was nothing. Surprise, surprise that’s because it’s bullshit stupid tinfoil nonsense. He then went to UCLA and asked them there about it and even admits they laughed him off campus because the idea was so absurdly ridiculous.
He then did his own study where he found it was curing all sorts of things maybe even anything and everything (and never published in a reputable journal, I wonder why? Again because it’s nonsense.)
I am only halfway through the video at this point and now they are bringing on Dr. Joseph Mercola and I just can’t go on. At least not right now. Holy shit.
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