Sunday, March 1, 2015

fed up with junk science

I couldn't bear to continue reading on the blogs and facebook this morning -- the stoopid was getting really thick.  "OMG, when you eat asparagus, your urine stinks because DETOX!"  :-O

Okay, i'm used to that kind of thing.  I rarely comment anymore.

I followed a link on MDA to what was supposed to have been a summary of Prof. Noakes' talk at the recent CapeTown convention.  It must have been the opening speech, because it was just the same-ol'-same-ol' public criticism of LCHF by entrenched academics who see their career-theories crumbling.  How many times will we hear the same story?  TN seemed philosophical but aggrieved -- though they ignored science, they were sincere believers....

WHEN ARE WE GOING TO TAKE OFF THE GLOVES?  When "the other side" lies like a rug, why do we insist on playing like gentlemen?  This is not the first time i've resolved to speak the truth, the whole truth and nothing but, and whenever i come up against some mendacious dickweed, go right ahead and call him/her a FUCKING LIAR.

Like Dr. Kendrick with his arch-enemy Sir Rory Statin, playing nice just doesn't work.  Those assholes are willing to say and do anything to protect their phony-baloney jobs here (name that movie!) -- we should be willing to be JUUUUST a little bit unladylike, in defense of Truth as well as public welfare.  THEY are in it for money and power;  WE are in it because they are hurting the ones we love.

All you have to do is hang out on the internet, on sites where "ordinary people" congregate, to hear what a hash has been made of people's understanding of nutrition and health.  It's a SLOUGH.  The press might actually cover it better, and the public pay a little more attention, if there were a little "blood" (figuratively speaking) involved.

...Kinda like a road-side accident.  Rubber-neckers can't resist.

9 comments:

  1. "I couldn't bear to continue reading on the blogs and facebook this morning .... "

    Sometimes it does no good to read blogs and facebook - just turn off from it all, By all means, if the situation warrants, perhaps have a moan, or indeed a rant.

    Me ....... a nice quiet cup of tea and a good book can work wonders.

    All the best Jan

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    1. :-) they certainly can work wonders! peace ... quiet ... relaxation....

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  2. Thanks for mentioning Mark's Daily Apple. I saw an article on antibiotics destroying intestinal cells that might explain why I don't seem to absorb nutrients very well.

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    1. I didn't read that article, but it's not surprising. how we interact with our microbiota is still pretty nebulous, I suspect! I understand that as we age we don't absorb nutrients as well, but I don't know the mechanism. ... I DO try to take my supplements in the best-absorbed form....

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  3. I mentioned on Lori's blog one of my yoga instructors. Due to my involvement into things like yoga, I am exposed to the believe system of the yoga crowd. Much of so called "theoretical explanations" are so ridiculous that only a believer can swallow it without blinking, but the physical part of the system is just right. I am wearing my gloves all the time - after 50 it is hard to believe into changing others.

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    1. :-) I think I understand! I have some ... uh ... unconventional beliefs, based on my spiritual readings. The ancients knew a lot, but it was through observation and trial-and-error; modern people trying to ascribe reasons for those beliefs can come up with some ideas that are really "out there"!

      I don't expect to convince the "enforcer hierarchy" of Conventional Wisdom just by getting tough, of course -- I just think that being nice and polite with them is being too delicate. They are willing to pull strings and use their power and influence to keep important information away from decision-makers; they get mean and vicious. I think that reciprocating and using their own tricks against them is perfectly called-for.

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  5. Just two examples of strange believes in a yoga crowd - during the oil spill in a Mexican gulf many classes declared a minute on intense meditation to influence an Earth crust shift which would close the opening; When my yoga instructor recently got an inexpiable Quincke's edema on her face, she treated it with eating a lot of apples and nothing else because an extra liquid in a body supposed to be cured by some magic substance from apples. It was the case when I abandoned the mask of a polite observer and bombarded her with several emails. Eventually edema was gone in a week, probably the apple fast was not in a way of body's way to heal itself, but I was really worried. In other areas of life the lady acts as an intelligent and reasonable human being. She helped a lot of people, especially old ones, with body misalignments to resolve their issues.

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    1. I guess they didn't meditate hard enough -- didn't work! ;-) ...yeah, although I believe one can do a lot of things with the mind, and health cures are possible through nutrition, that lady's philosophy seems just a LIIIITTTLE extreme....

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