Things I Believe or Things That Are True

• Climate change is real and is the greatest existential threat to the world today.
• The film “What the Bleep Do We Know!?”,… it’s bullshit, nonsense, and pseudoscience. As Dr. Lisa Randall, a theoretical particle physicist describes it….it’s “the bane of scientists”.
• Trump is a terrible President. Arguably our worst President ever.
• Planned Parenthood should be funded.
• Breastfeeding is natural.
• Aspartame (Nutrasweet) is perfectly safe and so is sucralose (Splenda).
• Eyewitness testimony is incredibly unreliable.
• Rape which happens to males and females is never the victim’s fault.
• Homosexuals deserve human rights.
• Many Americans saw the candidacy and election of Barack Obama in 2008 as evidence that the U.S. was now a post-racial society when in reality we weren’t even close.
• Transgendered people are their preferred gender.
• Feminism isn’t about female superiority.
• Most Muslims aren’t terrorists.
• For 99% of the population, gluten is a natural and perfectly healthy food protein. (see: How many people do you know who have a psychosomatic allergy to gluten?)
• Most Christian aren’t terrorists but make no mistake there are very clearly Christian terrorists around us too.
• The United States is not a Christian Nation.
• It’s okay to disagree with and criticize Islam, but it’s not okay to hate Muslims. (Likewise the same goes for Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc etc.)
• There are many things that cause kids to act hyper and overly excited. Sugar isn’t one of them.
• There is no god (or gods).
• The Earth is 4.54 billion years old give or take 50 million years. Not 6000.
• There is no such thing as “Leftover Bacon“.
• The CIA did engage in torture. And probably won’t ever again.
• Obama is an American born citizen.
• While a Vitamin C deficiency leads to scurvy taking it will not prevent or help alleviate a common cold.
• Benghazi wasn’t a conspiracy.
• Astrology is pseudoscience.
• Tumeric is Wonderfully Tasty But It’s Not Medicinal
• The healing powers of crystals is bullshit pseudoscientific nonsense.
• Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) is a scam and a sham an no your particular company isn’t different from all the rest.
• Trickle down economics doesn’t work nor has it ever worked.
• I do NOT believe in ghosts or spirits roaming the earth (or anywhere for that matter)
• Gun violence is a public health crisis.
• The historical Jesus we were brought up to believe in probably didn’t really exist (see Aron Ra’s Jesus Wasn’t Jesus, Did Jesus Exist? Dr. Robert M Price, Dr. Richard Carrier, David Fitzgerald Interview,  Bart Ehrman & Robert Price Debate – Did Jesus Exist, Evidence for Jesus is weaker than you might think | Raw Story, and Robert M. Price – Jesus: The Failed Hypothesis | Point of Inquiry)
• Cryptids (animals whose existence has never been proven by science, such as Bigfoot) are folklore at best, mystical mythical creatures, and pseudoscience at worst.
• Intelligent design is creationism and entirely unscientific.
• Obama hasn’t destroyed the economy and in fact the opposite is true.
• Corporations are not people.
• There is nothing wrong with MSG. It’s the Umami, the fifth taste. Nothing wrong with it at all and there never has been.
• There is no “life after death”.
• The “Raw Milk” craze is mostly scientifically ignorant nonsense and potentially deadly.
• Numerology is illogical bullshit nonsense.
• Coconut Oil is a great cooking oil becase it doesn’t oxidize under high heat but 99% of the health benefits you hear people saying coconut oil has are nonsense. Its nothing special.
• Fox is not news.
• The TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership) will not survive in its current form nor should it.
• The HRC email server saga is much ado about mostly nothing.
• The threats and risks from herbicides and pesticides in our food supply for the consumer are actually very small and people fears are way out of proportion to reality.
• People should live beneath their mean but never lose their aspirations.
• Return everything you borrow
• Wi-Fi is Safe
• Feng shui (the spiritual aspect) is nonsense.
• GMOs are safe
• Vaccines are safe
• Chiropractic is an invented fake treatment that could cause more harm than good. (see: On the Subject of Chiropractic and Cracking Down on Chiropractic Pseudoscience.)
• Homeopathy is just water (RTOL posts on Homeopathy)
• Acupuncture does not work (see: Why I Think Acupuncture Is Useless Nonsense or view the Acupuncture category)
• Organic food is not healthier
• Alkaline diets are nonsense
• While Lyme Disease is very real Chronic Lyme does not exist (see PLDS or Chronic Lyme?)
• Humans are causing global warming
• The earth is not flat
• “Detoxing” is an unscientific scam.
• ADHD is real, very real.

…to be continued.

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(hat tips to Penn Gillette and David G. McAfee)