Some time ago, Mike Myles down at 90 Miles from Tyranny posted this meme in one of his many collections.
Ignoring "who's CT?", the rest of it seems like real truth to me. The first obvious one to me is our weight being determined entirely by Calories In vs. Calories Out or CICO (pronounce that “psycho;” or “sicko” – whichever you prefer), often stated as the way to lose weight is “eat less and move more.” I don't think it's an overstatement to say many millions of people have tried that and found that our bodies are too adaptive, too much "learning systems" for a simple approach like that. A very common scenario is for someone to try caloric reduction, have some quick success losing weight, only to find they gain weight back to close to their starting point. Then the after effect is that once the system learns it can turn down the amount of calories it needs, it can leave that so that to drop weight requires continually reducing intake.
His emphasis, though, seems to sound more like the crowd that seems to be afraid of chemical names and no familiarity with how chemistry works. If instead of telling them you were giving them water but said it was di-hydrogen monoxide (H2O), they'd run in fear.
Another one of Mike Myles' posts that stuck out to me is the essence of being afraid of chemical names.
The statement that the source of the Fluoride ion in our water supplies (and
toothpaste, dental treatments and ... whatever) is hydrofluorosilicic acid
(also known as hexafluorosilicic acid - H
2SiF
6) is true, but it's irrelevant. The nature of chemical reagents is that they
get used up so there is none of that hydrofluorosilicic acid left in the water supply. The
fluoride ions are removed from the acid and attach to
sodium ions resulting in sodium fluoride, NaF, a salt like table salt, sodium
chloride.
Since there's no hexafluorosilicic acid remaining in the water we drink, testing it for safety doesn't make much sense. Whether or not Fluoride itself is toxic or "safe" in our water doesn't appear to be anything the makers of this poster care about.
Well, just some rambling. Weekends tend to be the slowest news days, so I picked up some memes I've been meaning to write about. I'm open to suggestions about other things to write about.
But there are serious issues with fluoridated water and fluoride in toothpaste. Since the rise of fluorine usage, issues with hypothyroidism have correspondingly increased.
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Well, when one has an overactive thyroid, hyperthyroidism, a series of fluoride treatments is used to slow the thyroid down, as fluoride is a poison to the thyroid.
So, well, unproven fluoride treatment to stop tooth cavities (totally unproven, the tests were borked by the control cities going with fluoride) and the rise in hypothyroidism. But we're told they aren't connected by government scientists (the same ones that tell us COVID wasn't treatable by HCL and Ivermectin.)
I'm not tin-foil hat conspiracyism here. But the timeline fits, and merits more fair and impartial investigation.
Remember, DDT was said to cause a silent spring by messing up eggshell production in birds. Except the studies that 'proved' it were majorly borked and the whole "Silent Spring" book is about as factual as Erhlick's 'we're going to run out of food and water and space' bullscattery.
Thanks, Beans.
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