Skepticism and critical thinking

Why do so few of Japies Xitter, Telegram and Rumballs content creators have any qualifications in the fields where they're creating so called "conflicting evidence"?

This speech was scheduled to be played in a parliamentary special meeting at the UK Parliament. Conveniently, due to "sound issues", it was never played.


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Go you good thing go!

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.:

"You look at that pandemic, you look at the management, the disaster, the Brown University, they closed all the schools, the Brown University studies said our children, our toddlers in this country lost 22 IQ points. A third of children are now going to be taking remedial education and many believe they will never recover. The GMAC scores are down.

All of the scoring of IQ and our children's intelligence are down. This did a terrible, terrible blow to our country. And what was the point of it all? Well, we look at what the outcome was. And the outcome was that they shifted. They closed all of the small business in this country. 41% of black-owned businesses will never reopen.
They shifted money upward. They strengthened these big tech institutions like Amazon and Facebook and Instagram and YouTube and Google. And they weakened Main Street and small business and the American worker and they shifted $4.3 trillion from the American middle class to this new oligarchy of billionaires, which is the biggest outcome, the biggest shift in world history of wealth and a shift in power. We gave our government all these new powers.
And I want you all to remember three things, three rules. One is that when you give a government a power, it will never voluntarily relinquish it. Second rule, that if you give him a government of power, it will ultimately abuse that power to the maximum extent possible. And the third rule is that nobody ever complied their way out of totalitarianism.

So what are we going to do if they ever try to do this again? We're going to resist, resist, resist.
What are we going to do if they try it again? Resist! What are we going to do? Resist!"

Follow the science. Yes it's America. Australia following hot behind.

Alex Clark testifies at senate hearing on chronic disease:
"My average listener, like me, is a woman in her late 20s and early 30s. And we demand accountability for how the millennial generation was turned into a science experiment without our informed consent for the sake of enriching big pharma, big ag, and big food.

Millennial women have started to have kids for the first time, and they are disillusioned with how hard it has become to not only get pregnant, but also raise kids who are healthy, happy, and mentally well. Today, I am proud to represent them.

The poisoning of our food and the environment is the issue for these independent women. It is devastating us and our children. My name is Alex Clark and I host Culture Apothecary. By virtually every measure, millennials are more health conscious than any generation before us, but at the same time, we are also the sickest. That is, until our children end up surpassing us. The next generation of children is predicted to not outlive their parents if we continue on the trajectory that we are currently on. When in human history has that ever been the case? We are fatter than any prior generation at this age. We're having more fertility issues. New cancer diagnoses in the U.S. are projected to top 2 million for the first time this year, and these new cases are almost all driven by young people. This is according to American Cancer Society data.

What happened?

Growing up, millennials were handed health advice that was inaccurate, mistaken, or downright fabricated. Almost everything that we were taught about food and health was made up. The only guidance that we received on what to eat came in 1992 via the Food Pyramid, a completely manipulated work of fake public health crafted by the Department of Agriculture.
The food pyramid told us that all fat was bad, a lie. It told us to make complex carbs like pasta, bread, and processed breakfast cereal the bedrock of our diet, not because it was healthy, but because it was the most profitable recommendation for big ag and big food. We became the first generation subjected to sugary, fattening, inflammatory foods, deliberately engineered to be as addictive as heroin, thanks to the food companies buying the scientists from the cigarette companies for that exact purpose.

In the 80s and 90s, the same era as the food pyramid scam, youth obesity tripled from 5% to 15%. Today in 2024, close to half of all American kids are overweight or obese. Now why are you surprised? Ultra processed foods make up 70% of the calories that kids eat now.

Now, most of us millennial girls got our first period when we were 13 to 15 years old. Pediatricians wasted no time telling us that there was a magic pill that could solve all of our problems in a 10-minute wellness checkup with no informed consent about the risks or side effects. What problems were we solving exactly? A couple pimples. We were advised to not worry about learning to track our cycle or understand our hormones.

No conversation about how our likelihood to experience anxiety or depression would increase by 80% on the pill.

10 to 15 years went by on the hormonal birth control pill. We stayed on the pill because no one advised us it was only ever supposed to be taken temporarily. Then we wanted to have children. We got off birth control for the first time in our adult lives only to discover that we had major fertility issues that the hormonal birth control hid. Infertility is going up 1% every year.
Suddenly, starting a family means spending tens of thousands of dollars on IVF and other fertility treatments because even more medical interventions are always the first solution rather than addressing the root causes of the problem.
If the IVF even works, millennial moms are seeing the same drama play out for their own children, but on a far greater scale. They want to raise healthy kids, they do. But where can they go for info? The studies are bought and paid for by the food companies. They look for unbiased info on the news, but that's funded by Big Pharma.
In 2022, the pharmaceutical industry spent an average of $1 billion per month on advertising in the United States. What news company is going to risk reporting the truth if it means missing out on advertising dollars like that? Their pediatrician, these moms, pediatrician, had less than a day of nutrition training in all their years of medical school. They don't even know what seed oils are when they ask about them.
If one of my listeners has a child today, there is a one in 50 chance that child will have a deadly peanut allergy, four times what it was just a few decades ago. And that rate is rising. Children today are about 20% more likely to develop type one diabetes than they were 20 years ago. Childhood cancer rates are rising a percentage point every year, asthma is up, so is ADHD, allergies, virtually every type of psychological disorder.

In 1980, autism was diagnosed at a rate of just three or four per hundred thousand kids. Today, a newborn child has a one in thirty-six chance that he or she will be autistic. And that rate is also rising every year. Who cares about politics if the next generation is dead or close to it before they can even vote?

In 1985, newborn millennials had to follow a schedule of just a handful of vaccines. Today, a child following the recommended vaccine schedule will receive up to 70 shots by the time they turn 18, including 27 before he or she turns 2, and as many as 6 shots in a single visit. Are all these shots producing healthier kids? According to the data, no. Are we allowed to even ask? Also, no.

Some parents who've asked too many questions about the recommended vaccine schedule can find themselves reported to Child Protection Services. Or they will get kicked out of their pediatrician's office for not being compliant. This is America, the land of the free. Parents are being held hostage. They did not sign up to co-parent with the government. We want a divorce.
But there's more. Remember when I said that my generation had our first period at 13 or 15? Today little girls are starting their periods at 8 or 9 and they are getting pubic hair as young as 5 or 6. Is it their drinking water, their food, chemicals and personal care products that other countries have banned? Don't ask, don't tell.

Girls are still being pressured to get on birth control, by the way, without informed consent, but now they get the added bonus of an antidepressant to go with it. Two for one special. Just to reiterate the war on moms in this country, today virtually everything a child eats or drinks will be served on a plastic plate in a plastic bottle or be eaten from a plastic container with plastic utensils. Human breast milk now contains thousands of microplastics.
If you need formula, you can't find it without inflammatory seed oils or soy. Parents have to order it and buy it from Europe. Does this all seem overwhelming to you? Good. This is what the American mom deals with every day.
The typical American parent today has to worry about a job, about their children's education, about all the things that a parent has always had to worry about.

They shouldn't also have to deal with the added stress of finding the poison that lurks in almost everything their child eats or drinks. The American dream is that a parent will be able to raise children who are better off than themselves. But now that dream is vanishing, not just on an economic level, but a biological one. Unless we break this spiral, we will fall into a death spiral of unhealthy parents raising even more unhealthy kids that will bankrupt this country. As RFK Jr. has said, the last thing standing between a child and an industry full of corruption is a mom. Let's make it easier for them."

You know, besides wishing we could have Easter in October down under, I also wish the virus had come from birds instead of bats.
Corvid! That's something almost as good as the Black Plague
But the only fun we really had from the epidemic was early on in Italy when locked down socialising consisted of singing on balconies.
The croonervirus was born

I did go to boarding school. It was English although it was located in Tanzania.

I've a keen sense of humour. There is nothing more satisfying than watching a stuffed shirt(s) making a Pratt of himself.

" there is no compulsory curriculum that has to be adhered to in order to voice observations. "

Correct.

But as someone who has no training or expertise in Health or Nutrition, the opinions and information she shares on her podcast are just that.
Conflicting opinions and observations, not Conflicting Evidence.

And yet, she's invited as some kind of expert to participate in a Congressional Roundtable on American Health and Nutrition.
In fact, most of the people invited don't have qualifications or expertise in Health and Nutrition (there was at least one MD and a couple of Psychs), instead most of them are on-line "Wellness" personaloties selling their onwn brands of unregulated (and generally unproven) supplements.