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I suspect sugar intake has a drastic impact here. We genuinely have too much of it in everything.
But I kind of doubt there's more sugar in food than there was in the 70s.
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what I don't understand is why hpv vaccination isn't given to older people?
Cost and the statistical property that older people have fewer sexual partners on average. There's also a sort of fatalist assumption that you've already been maximally exposed. If the vaccine was zero cost, you'd give it to everyone.
Urbanization means exposure to chemicals and pollution and stress, and even if there are higher life expectancy, it's probably correlated with wealth since cities are increasingly for affluent people.
Stick to the science folks. Let the MDs do what they do. Stats and population level studies are hard work. You need to vote somebody in who will support this, or live with the consequences.
It's a good balance to care about science while still maintaining a human brain with independent thoughts.
If I had to bet, it would be on HPV causing a majority of the rise in colorectal cancer. It is a major cause of throat cancer in men[0] and causes almost 100% of cervical cancer in women[1]. We have had a significant increase in anal sex over the past 10+ years[2] and are now seeing an increase in colorectal cancer. "Britain has found that the proportion of 16- to 24-year-olds engaging in heterosexual anal intercours…
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The need to tap a bunch of discredited UK "scientists" to get the anti-mRNA perspective on the testimonies, should perhaps be an indicator that this viewpoint is not really credible (they couldn't find enough reputable doctors inside of the US willing to testify the same thing). Incidentally here's a really nicely written counter to many of the claims Malhotra has made: > Equally, evidence that mRNA vaccines cause ca…
I think you meant mRNA gene therapy . And despite the many issues with mRNA technology, the linked page specifically mentions covid-19 mRNA injections, which contains instructions for spike protein which causes inflammation which causes or is implicated in many diseases including cancers. Yeah won’t find many doctors stocking their necks out and funding for those type of studies don’t get well funded by the pharmaceu…
No, because framing the COVID vaccine as ‘gene therapy’ is pseudoscientific scare-tactic nonsense. I recommend reading the testimony from the American oncology society, as it explains how RNA works.
Stick to the science folks. Let the MDs do what they do. Stats and population level studies are hard work. You need to vote somebody in who will support this, or live with the consequences.
Science evolves and sometimes it's good to use your brain. You're probably too young to remember science pushing fat and cholesterol being bad, which not-so-helpfully contributed to a massive sugar push in the US in the 80s. And I'm sure you remember the push for mask usage and social distancing during COVID, while science told us that 'racism is a health emergency' to help justify street protests. It's a good balanc…
What do you think science is? The whole point of science is questioning assumptions and applying data gathering and independent thought to analyzing that data.
Poor diet seems most likely. In particular too much focus on protein and not enough fibre. Most people get enough protein but only 5% of Americans get enough fibre in their diet.
What I find interesting is the concept of dead food versus live food. This is just something I wonder about. For example a dead apple is one that was picked a year ago, sold today, kept in storage until now. Long shelf life - is the crucial change in our eating that I can see. When was the last time you had a fresh apple? Does the food industry want us to consider the health benefits of a dead apple versus a living a…
There is a strong distinction line the ability to think (intelligence) and the ability to reason. (just ask google!).
There is lots of "intelligence" in this discussion. Reasoning? Not so much. Some how - and perhaps this is partly from how I phrased things - there was some impression that I meant storage of food caused cancer! But apples are indeed affected by storage. Just ask google!
And "just ask google" is the problem. You may be intelligent, and your comments may be perceived as intelligent, but does that mean they are reasoning? Nope.
And for all the people out there wanting to know whether you will have a job, and what the future with AI will be:
If you are only intelligent you are out of luck! If you can reason, there is a huge opportunity! Just ask google.
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Science evolves and sometimes it's good to use your brain. You're probably too young to remember science pushing fat and cholesterol being bad, which not-so-helpfully contributed to a massive sugar push in the US in the 80s. And I'm sure you remember the push for mask usage and social distancing during COVID, while science told us that 'racism is a health emergency' to help justify street protests. It's a good balanc…
> It's a good balance to care about science while still maintaining a human brain with independent thoughts. What do you think science is? The whole point of science is questioning assumptions and applying data gathering and independent thought to analyzing that data.
Are we doing studies ourselves? Of course not. Are we reviewing a multitude of papers ourselves? We generally don't have the time.