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[–] 128 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

Your stomach microbiome is plants

Which is why I spend a solid 3 hours a day facing the sun with my mouth held wide open. Gotta let my tummy plants photosynthesize somehow.

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  • [–] 56 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    You say that as a joke but I'm pretty sure this clown is also one of the quacks who regularly talked about the "health benefits" of butthole tanning.

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  • [–] 277 points 7 months ago (20 children)

    Science is only political because scientists have to continuously convince politicians reality exists.

    It's frustrating that something like climate change is even a political discussion at all. Don't Look Up captured that frustration really well.

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  • [–] 47 points 7 months ago (12 children)

    Convincing people your interpretation of reality exists is literally all that politics is.

    Unfortunately, despite being correct, science is also an interpretation of reality.

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago

    Convincing people your interpretation of reality exists is literally all that politics is.

    What? No. No, no, you naive fool... many politicians, if not most, don't believe most of what they're selling, and don't give a flying fuck about it.

    They'll sell whatever line the party they're working for wants them to sell, and they'd just as happily sell the opposition party's line if it paid better and they could switch without being called a turncoat.

    Also, it's not about convincing people about specific beliefs; most people are mostly already convinced of their worldviews and if they change them it won't be because of some politician. It's about convincing them, despite all evidence to the contrary, that the politician shares those beliefs, and will impose them on people who don't if they vote for them.

    despite being correct, science is also an interpretation of reality.

    Again, no. Science (except for mathematics, but that's it's own thing) doesn't and shouldn't ever claim to be correct.

    It's the most accurate approximation we have so far of how nature works, but it's constantly trying to achieve better approximations, and will happily throw away the old ones when it finds a better one.

    It also should always make very clear that it's an approximation or a description, not an interpretation. Science should always be objective, never subjective, and interpretations are by definition subjective.

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  • [+] -21 points 7 months ago (9 children)

    I think we need politics to go beyond one reality, and embrace a subjective multiverse where people can perceive what they want to perceive.

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  • [–] 31 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    If only the idiots could just piss off to their own multiverse of idiocy and leave the rest of us alone

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  • [–] -5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

    I would be happy if I didn't have to share a universe with realists, but the thing about realists is, they're not happy to let that happen. They think there's only one universe. They psychologically abuse our kind to try to get us back to their reality.

    I have a friend named Sonic who's an introject. He appeared in someone else's head one day, having been assembled from thoughts about video games and comic books. He tried to get help from a psychologist with his mental health. Instead of helping him, she told him he doesn't exist and tried to erase him. She messed him up so bad, he tried to commit suicide, tried to destroy the body he lives in and everyone else who lives in it, just to prove he could have an effect on the world, that he exists.

    He's doing a lot better now that he's surrounded by antirealists and he isn't seeing that psychologist anymore.

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago* (2 children)
  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I want to be very clear here, it was my schizo meltdown, not Grail's. And more properly, it was Sonic's meltdown, and it probably ties into out dissociative symptoms more than whatever schizo-spectrum whatever we have going on.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    TIL the multiverse instance has someone other than Grail. But, I wouldn't be surprised if it's perfectly in line with yall's belief that you all are actually personalities of one dude, who might not even exist anyway.

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  • [+] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)
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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Whether climate change is occurring, what damage it's doing and what's causing it are scientific questions. How to address it is a set of political questions: How do we get humanity to emit less greenhouse gases? How do we get countries on the same page? How do we make sure that the effects of these changes don't increase global inequality?

    The scientific questions have been answered very well, and are continuing to be answered in more detail all the time.

    The response to the political questions has been an abject failure so far.

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  • [–] 83 points 7 months ago (1 child)
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    doesn't harm organic tissue

    Which is totally why Bayer has settled their lawsuit for several billions of dollars over claims that it causes lymphoma.

    Edit: also, plants are organic tissue.

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  • [–] 76 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    Sometimes I have this weird theory that RFK Jr is really like a Dr. Zoidberg type alien in a skin suit. He just kind of guesses at how human anatomy works because he isn't human himself and isn't professional enough to get a real education on the subject.

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  • [+] 105 points 7 months ago (26 children)
  • [–] 44 points 7 months ago (16 children)

    Your stomach micro biome is plants.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

    That's why you're sick. You need to constantly be in the sun without sunscreen, look at RFK jr's healthy glow as a good example of prime health.

    If you're not feeding your tummy plants with the sunlight it needs you're not living healthy.

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Funny that in Spanish it's called "flora intestinal", not "fauna intestinal". Always though that it's a but of a misnomer.

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  • [–] 19 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

    Intestinal flora is a common phrase in English, too. Or "gut flora". It's one of those old 19th century scientific phrases which has stuck around.

    Like this, err, gentleman (who apparently wants to drag us back to that past) we used to believe gut bacteria to be plant-based. Science caught up, but the term has had sticking power. It seems to be a favorite of marketers of probiotic supplements.

    "Microbiota" or just the straightforward "gut bacteria" would be more accurate and modern. But of course, everyone except for this guy already knows that.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Funny that you believe RFK Jr believes in bacteria. Dude doesn't believe in germ theory

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  • [–] 50 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    He contradicts himself even in his own wacky theories

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  • [–] 37 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    One with frontotemporal dementia that has rapidly shrinking brain, the other one with half a brain eaten by the worm... in what fucking timeline do we live... feels like Rick and Morty episode... fuck. me.

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  • [–] 36 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    " it is unequivocal that exposure to glyphosate produces important alterations in the structure and function of the nervous system of humans, rodents, fish, and invertebrates."

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35562999/

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  • [–] 36 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Everything is political, and there has never been a time that proves that better than now.

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  • [–] 32 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    I can't tell if this is supposed to be for or against glyphosate?

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    He seems to be.... pro-celiac?

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    [–] 31 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I remember that when Roundup first came out, glyphosate was being held up as a brilliant example of herbicide design since it inhibits a vital metabolic pathway in plants that animals don't have. They even claimed that the surfactants in Roundup were more harmful than the glyphosate itself. I guess that claim didn't hold up too well.

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  • [–] 25 points 7 months ago

    As if denying millions of Americans access to proper healthcare wasn't enough, they appointed an anti-science, anti-vaxx idiot as if to make sure even more harm would be inflicted on them.

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  • [–] 24 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Awfully big words, for someone who doesn't believe in germ theory.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    holup, what? This guy is working on Victorian era medical knowledge? Is his idol Robert Liston??

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Theodoric of York.

    You know, medicine is not an exact science, but we are learning all the time. Why, just fifty years ago, they thought a disease like your daughter’s was caused by demonic possession or witchcraft. But nowadays we know that Isabelle is suffering from an imbalance of bodily humors, perhaps caused by a toad or a small dwarf living in her stomach.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    Who would've predicted modern toxic bro culture leading to the resurfacing of miasma theory? But at this point I wouldn't be surprised to hear him start talking about imbalances of black bile and phlegm.

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  • [–] 24 points 7 months ago

    Sounds legit. Where do I sign up for my glyphosate injections?

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    [–] 15 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    RFK has never been about science.

    He was a paid antivax advocate, for money, now he's a paid glyphosate advocate, again for money.

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago

    Someone should.

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago

    Ah yes, he's on the show with the very tall and smart scientist Dr Rogan /s

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago

    So does it go after organic tissue or not, because last time I checked I'm pretty certain that plants are organic. No one has plants in their stomach either. What a prat.

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