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The Truth about RFK Jr

Armitage72 said:
There was a study I saw years ago that claimed to show that using an electric razor caused leukemia, except the way they presented their data, it actually indicated that leukemia caused electric razor use.
(It showed the rate of electric razor use among leukemia patients, not the rate of leukemia among electric razor users.)
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There's a wonderful web site called https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations with a bunch of these graphs. I haven't dug down far enough to see if the leukemia and razors correlation is there, but there are others at least as silly, some of the surprisingly close.

e.t.a. on each example there is a link to an AI generated explanation. Don't miss these!
 
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The Don said:
Enlighten me as to how HFCS is chemically different to fructose obtained from other sources.
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It's not, but other sources generally aren't fructose, they are sucrose. And while sucrose is a disaccharide of fructose and glucose, it is certainly not the same as HFCS, or even a 50/50 mixture of fructose and glucose.

Ultimately, sucrose will metabolize into glucose and fructose, so calorically they are comparable, but they have differences in things like satiation due to differences in interactions with taste buds.

For those things that are sources of fructose, HFCS is different because it contains glucose.
 
pgwenthold said:
Sucrose is a single disaccharide, HFCS is a mixture. Those are not the same, nor necessarily similar.
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The sugar content of high fructose corn syrup (roughly half fructose and half glucose), which is unhealthy and bad for you, is very similar to the sugars in honey which we all know is a miracle food and general all round good thing.

Perhaps they should market HFCS as artificial honey?
 
Planigale said:
The sugar content of high fructose corn syrup (roughly half fructose and half glucose), which is unhealthy and bad for you, is very similar to the sugars in honey which we all know is a miracle food and general all round good thing.

Perhaps they should market HFCS as artificial honey?
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If they added honey to food products at the same volume as they added HFCS, no doubt honey would be a big bad health boogie-man too. The reason they don't is that HFCS is a government-subsidized industry, whereas honey is not. Honey is shipped in tanker-loads. HFCS is shipped in literal boat-loads.
 
Planigale said:
The sugar content of high fructose corn syrup (roughly half fructose and half glucose),
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I am surprised by this, because then it should be OK for my wife to eat. We have stayed clear of it because of the name “high fructose”. Why is it then called “high fructose” if it has no higher level than, say sucrose, when it is digested?

You also say it is similar to honey, and I can say that honey is a killer for my wife. You hardly need a drop f it before she gets stomach pains.
 
steenkh said:
I am surprised by this, because then it should be OK for my wife to eat. We have stayed clear of it because of the name “high fructose”. Why is it then called “high fructose” if it has no higher level than, say sucrose, when it is digested?

You also say it is similar to honey, and I can say that honey is a killer for my wife. You hardly need a drop f it before she gets stomach pains.
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It's high fructose because it's higher in fructose than corn syrup would otherwise be. It makes no representation as to its absolute level of fructose.

Like low fat versions of other types of food.
 
The Don said:
It's high fructose because it's higher in fructose than corn syrup would otherwise be. It makes no representation as to its absolute level of fructose.

Like low fat versions of other types of food.
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Thanks, we didn’t know that.
 
At SBM Jonathan Howard wrote, "In one recent interview, Dr. Marty Makary, flanked by the Food Babe(!), twice refused to answer “YES!” when asked if parents should vaccinate their children against measles. In the video below, he said the bare minimum about the MMR. However, while saying “we have to be honest,” he minimized children dying of measles with the same noxious myths he used with COVID. He said only vulnerable children are at risk of measles, he ignored its non-fatal outcomes, and absurdly implied parents are not given any choice regarding vaccines. He said that measles outbreaks are not unusual."
 
Chris_Halkides said:
At SBM Jonathan Howard wrote, "In one recent interview, Dr. Marty Makary, flanked by the Food Babe(!), twice refused to answer “YES!” when asked if parents should vaccinate their children against measles. In the video below, he said the bare minimum about the MMR. However, while saying “we have to be honest,” he minimized children dying of measles with the same noxious myths he used with COVID. He said only vulnerable children are at risk of measles, he ignored its non-fatal outcomes, and absurdly implied parents are not given any choice regarding vaccines. He said that measles outbreaks are not unusual."
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The Food Babe is still a thing?
 
US at tipping point for return of endemic measles

At current U.S. childhood vaccination rates, measles could return to spreading regularly at high levels, with an estimated 851,300 cases over the next 25 years, computer models used by the researchers suggest.

If rates of vaccination with the measles-mumps-rubella, or MMR, shot were to decline by 10%, an estimated 11.1 million cases of measles would result over 25 years, according to a report of the study in JAMA.
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Hundreds or possibly thousands of people will die from a disease we eradicated over twenty years ago.

Good job Trump voters, you stupid ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊.
 
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Follow on to the previous episode:


RFK Jr. saying even crazier things than I knew. Apparently he thinks the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918 was (a) not a virus, and (b) caused by vaccines. Also, (c) even Fauci agrees with (a).
 
Resume said:
The Food Babe is still a thing?
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"Steve Novella, a Yale neuroscientist and prominent pseudoscience warrior, among others, has dubbed Hari the "Jenny McCarthy of food" after the celebrity known for championing thoroughly debunked claims that vaccines cause autism." NPR
 
Chris_Halkides said:
Some people will be harmed or die after having measles, because measles is now believed to cause partial loss of immune memory.
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Yes, but he's so abundantly demonstrated his inability to understand primary causes that it will fly right past him. If King Kong threw you off the Empire State Building he'd blame the pavement.
 
RFK Jr. & HHS (Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on YouTube, April 28, 2025 - 39:52 min.)
John Oliver discusses the budget and staffing cuts being made to public health agencies in the U.S. under RFK Jr.’s leadership, the many ways those cuts will impact all of us, and some sad news about a beloved cereal mascot.
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And for those of you who can't access the video above, there's this only-slightly-shorter version:
RFK Jr. & HHS (Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on YouTube, April 28, 2025 - 36:14 min.)
 
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bruto said:
Yes, but he's so abundantly demonstrated his inability to understand primary causes that it will fly right past him. If King Kong threw you off the Empire State Building he'd blame the pavement.
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It's not the falling off a high building that kills you. It's the sudden deceleration at the end.
 
At SBM Dr. David Gorski wrote about a study that modeled the effects of changes in vaccine uptake levels on future cases (Peter Hotez is one of the coauthors). This study just appeared. "The first thing I noted here is that we are, arguably, already screwed. If nothing changes, we can expect a lot of bad things to happen in the US, at least with respect to measles, a scenario that could be massively improved upon just by a slight increase in vaccination rates, by 5-10%."

At In the Pipeline Derek Lowe wrote about the long lasting effects of present policies on the NIH, CDC, FDA, etc. "Finally, apply that to the FDA, CDC, and the rest of HHS when it comes to public health. We appear to be driving competent, experienced people away from their positions, demoralizing and disorganizing the agencies, and slow-walking actual medical needs and advances for the cause of political showboating. We’re going to see the effects of these decision in the numbers for years, too, but it’ll be in mortality figures and life expectancy. We are going to pay for this stupidity in coffins."
 
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Puppycow said:
Follow on to the previous episode:


RFK Jr. saying even crazier things than I knew. Apparently he thinks the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918 was (a) not a virus, and (b) caused by vaccines. Also, (c) even Fauci agrees with (a).
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I can't even begin to comprehend the stupidity of such statements! How many times would I have to hit my head with a hammer to become that stupid?
 
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Drawing on reporting from USA Today and the Independent, Latin Times wrote, "However, behind the scenes, the Trump administration's draft budget includes major cuts to addiction programs, including the termination of the Narcan grant, according to The Independent. "Narcan has been kind of a godsend as far as opioid epidemics are concerned, and we certainly are in the middle of one now with fentanyl," Donald McNamara of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said. "We need this funding source because it's saving lives every day.""
 
Chris_Halkides said:
Drawing on reporting from USA Today and the Independent, Latin Times wrote, "However, behind the scenes, the Trump administration's draft budget includes major cuts to addiction programs, including the termination of the Narcan grant, according to The Independent. "Narcan has been kind of a godsend as far as opioid epidemics are concerned, and we certainly are in the middle of one now with fentanyl," Donald McNamara of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said. "We need this funding source because it's saving lives every day.""
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"Eh, who cares if a bunch of addicts die, they're all criminals anyway!"
 
I went to the grocery store. It had a homeopathic section in the drug store part. RFK Jr ure could made us use some safe homoepathic medicine. No FDA approval! Any side effects? Just use less.
 
Tero said:
I went to the grocery store. It had a homeopathic section in the drug store part. RFK Jr ure could made us use some safe homoepathic medicine. No FDA approval! Any side effects? Just use less.
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Hey what about all the OD's on homeopathic medicine where you think about taking it and decide against it thus giving it infinite dilution and infinite power!
 
Tero said:
I went to the grocery store. It had a homeopathic section in the drug store part. RFK Jr ure could made us use some safe homoepathic medicine. No FDA approval! Any side effects? Just use less.
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Even better, don't take it at all! It'll be so diluted and powerful, you'll never get sick and you'll live forever!
 
The Great Zaganza said:
it's odd that no one who believes in homeopathy ever takes their recreational drugs heavily diluted.
Or their Viagra.
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When at university one of my mates had a flat-mate who would never chip in for the weekly weed/resin purchase, but would partake, Everyone else was convinced he never inhaled anyway.

They set him up by talking about a new delivery of really, really good weed coming in...Rolled up a load of joints with thyme and oregano while he was out, then played stoned and he was utterly taken in and was utterly off his tits...

We pulled a similar trick with an empty bottle of Glenfiddich, topping it up with cold tea and fooling someone who fancied themselves as a whisky buff.
 
The Great Zaganza said:
it's odd that no one who believes in homeopathy ever takes their recreational drugs heavily diluted.
Or their Viagra.
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Knowing the limitless folly of humanity I can almost understand people falling for homeopathy in general, but what I can't get over is people from tea-drinking cultures falling for it. How can anyone make a cup of tea and walk away thinking it gets stronger the more it's watered down? If homeopathy worked then dipping a tea bag once would result in tea stronger than using twenty tea bags at once and leaving them in!
 
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