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Re: I couldn't escape poison oak, so I started eating it

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You don't need to eat it. A well-known phenomenon in the US military is that some of the sites for Basic Training of new recruits have prodigious quantities of poison oak/ivy/sumac as the local flora. As consequence of the military training, you are rolling around in those plants daily. Initially, a large percentage of people have the usual reaction but it quickly disappears after a few weeks and it never happens aga…

This reads like getting shot with ever increasing caliber of bullets helps build immunity.

My wife is allergic to a plant we have in the garden, 5 years of rashes and it’s not getting better.

Re: I couldn't escape poison oak, so I started eating it

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I have read that the urushiol is also present in the skin of the mango fruit. I don’t know if those who consume a lot of mangoes or have grown up with mango trees around them are immune to poison oak’s urushiol(arguably much more concentrated) as its present in stems, saps, leaves, skin more than the flesh..but they likely have more tolerance. Also..in India, we don’t burn mango leaves or branches as it increases res…

Once I had the brilliant idea to eat a mango in slices like a melon. Turns out that's a great way to get a face rash.

Re: I couldn't escape poison oak, so I started eating it

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The first few bites when fire ants came to Texas hurt. The next few hurt less. Then they came to live in the walls of my parents’ house. I would get multiple bites every day and wake up with a dozen more after every night. It wasn’t that long before they didn’t hurt or leave a bump at all anymore. First hand education in how the body develops resistance to toxins.

Re: I couldn't escape poison oak, so I started eating it

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You don't need to eat it. A well-known phenomenon in the US military is that some of the sites for Basic Training of new recruits have prodigious quantities of poison oak/ivy/sumac as the local flora. As consequence of the military training, you are rolling around in those plants daily. Initially, a large percentage of people have the usual reaction but it quickly disappears after a few weeks and it never happens aga…

n=1 but I used to be immune to it, then one summer started landscaping, and probably weed whacked and pulled more of it than ever. Started with small hives, then small rashes. Then each successive exposure got worse and worse and I had to take a long course of steroids to stop a multi week outbreak. Still have scars 20 years later. For me, more exposure made it far worse.

Re: I couldn't escape poison oak, so I started eating it

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I have read that the urushiol is also present in the skin of the mango fruit. I don’t know if those who consume a lot of mangoes or have grown up with mango trees around them are immune to poison oak’s urushiol(arguably much more concentrated) as its present in stems, saps, leaves, skin more than the flesh..but they likely have more tolerance. Also..in India, we don’t burn mango leaves or branches as it increases res…

huh, every time I eat a kiwi my lips get itchy. I just googled and it doesn’t look like it contains urushiol, but it does contain an allergen called “actinidin”. This thread made me realize I’m allergic to kiwi’s…

I also think the very fine hairs may just be very irritating, not necessarily allergic, although you should get tested if you think its true.

Re: I couldn't escape poison oak, so I started eating it

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>Science is not conducted through public debate. Full stop. There's a reason why it's peer review, and not talk show host review. You're only saying that because you happen to disagree with what is being said. Full stop.

Er, no… that’s literally just the truth. Science is not done as a public debate. That’s politics. Science doesn’t “vote.”

Actually, peer review journals are public debate. The much-applauded "consensus" is essentially voting. If you follow the money you will quickly see the connection between science and politics, both internally and with the public at large.

Re: I couldn't escape poison oak, so I started eating it

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>I haven't seen anyone saying we can make pseudoscience go away forever. You must not have been looking. There are government and media officials coming out against "mis-, dis-, and mal-information" on a constant basis. These same people are the biggest liars around. >We're just questioning the wisdom of embracing and amplifying it to reach people it wouldn't have before. "You can have free speech as long as you only…

> "You can have free speech as long as you only speak quietly in your own closet." The power to curate information or "amplify" it as you say is practically very hard to distinguish from censorship when you choose to show only things you agree with, or show only the worst straw men for the other side. No platform owes you the right to amplify nonsense. The government can’t make you stop, but individual platforms or i…

>No platform owes you the right to amplify nonsense. The government can’t make you stop, but individual platforms or individuals themselves? They’re free to do whatever, just like you. Don’t like it? Start a Truth Social and go yell at your adoring fans all you want.

Governments of the world, including the US government, have repeatedly been shown to order these "private" platforms around. So this argument is cooked.

>While that’s a cute thought, conspiracy theorists are exceptionally good at one thing: theorizing conspiracies. “Being right” doesn’t happen, ever, because any positive results can simply be walked back as “part of another conspiracy.”

You should ask yourself why conspiracy theories make more sense to people than "the truth". Hint: It's because real conspiracies are commonfare.

>The way you kill conspiracy theories is not amplifying them as truth. That’s it.

Again this "not amplifying" is code for "censoring" or "burying". The truth inevitably shines through, even when it comes to this bullshit. You think the reality of censorship is a conspiracy, yet people have been censored heavily in this country for years now at the behest of the US government and some NGOs. Sometimes for strictly political reasons. You can call me a crackpot if you want but I've seen the censorship itself and the evidence of government involvement.

Who, pray tell, is qualified to judge what is worthy of "not amplifying"? That word makes me cringe every time because it was chosen to sound innocuous and appealing to young people. It is pure doublespeak.

Liberals even 10-15 years ago knew better than to argue for censorship. Now the left can't stop singing the praises of censorship, keep trying to redefine words to suit the agenda, and basically dragged the political dialogue into dangerous territory that was conclusively settled hundreds of years ago by brilliant philosophers.

Re: I couldn't escape poison oak, so I started eating it

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Ivermectin does nothing. Linking to a site that uses fraudulent research in order to prove an incorrect point does not help your position. There were places in the world that widely distributed Ivermectin as an experimental treatment (such as Brazil) whose health agencies have now, after the fact, said that Ivermectin does not help. You are peddling fraud.

Name one fraudulent paper on that page. I know you didn't look at them. Better yet, give me 3, since you are so convinced it's all fraud.

Re: I couldn't escape poison oak, so I started eating it

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huh, every time I eat a kiwi my lips get itchy. I just googled and it doesn’t look like it contains urushiol, but it does contain an allergen called “actinidin”. This thread made me realize I’m allergic to kiwi’s…

You may have oral allergy syndrome (OAS), which is similar to food allergy but not as severe. It doesn't typically lead to anaphylaxis. It is caused by pollen allergy, where the food has a protein similar to one that's in the pollen you're allergic to. This is called "cross-reactivity". Personally I have OAS with raw carrots, which is likely cross-reactive from my birch pollen allergy. Raw carrots make my throat mild…

Kiwis are also linked to latex allergy. I have friend who has latex and kiwi allergies.

Re: I couldn't escape poison oak, so I started eating it

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> Authorities were told from the top to not prescribe it They were also told not to prescribe Metamizole, because it kills people. there is no controversy there (well apart from spain who still have it on license.) > How about the fact it killed some people within minutes? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/sweden/697... No drug is 100% safe. How many people were killed per 100k doses? >That the actual…

>>That the actual data was slated to be suppressed for 75 years for bullshit reasons

>https://yellowcard.mhra.gov.uk/ you mean published quarterly

If you don't know what I'm talking about don't make shit up. This was a court proceeding in the US. Yes, people had to sue to get the trial data and again separately to get VAERS data. I forgot which one was supposed to be delayed 75 years (the original Pfizer trial I think) but in any case I remember the judge thought it unreasonable. In the end it was released. The list of possible side effects is huge and includes just about everything you can think of, perhaps by design.

>Which dictionary? Also, bear in mind that the dictionary isn't static. Its updated to reflect how english is spoken now, by the public.

You can google this easily. As for changing the definition, this vaccine didn't even stop death or infection as claimed. It at best "reduced" bad outcomes and that is negligible at best.

>Do you have data for that? what does it corrolate to? also depending on the country, some places its the younger that have less uptake.

No because this data is suppressed and never accurately reported. I think the CDC to this day hasn't made separate categories for "death/hospitalization with covid" and "death/hospitalization because of covid". Even when there is an incident, it's blamed on something else or even covid, because the vaccine does not prevent infection. At one point deaths among the vaccinated eclipsed deaths of unvaccinated, because of how many people were vaccinated (if nothing else).

>Do you know how exponentially harder it is to run it for 1000 people? How on earth, looking at how shit the US government is at functioning, can they organise something like that?

First of all, the truth has largely come out about all the major alleged conspiracy theories. The conspiracy theorists were right about: the lab leak, biowarfare research, gain of function research, Fauci lying and intimidating his subordinates to suppress the truth, and the fact that the vaccines don't stop the spread of covid or even slow it. They were also right about side effects and attempted suppression of trial and VAERS data.

Second of all, are you suggesting it is impossible for a large group to conspire to do something, or that crimes can be ongoing even as the public is aware of it? All they have to do to shut it down is call you names and censor you, get you fired, and so on. This has happened to people over the vaccine vs. their basic human rights, don't forget.

If all that needed to be done to halt crimes of that scale is make them public, we would not live under the constant state surveillance that we do today, because Snowden exposed all that.

>Moreover, if its the "MSM", who are holding the secrets, do you know how fucking chatty those pricks are? (I used to work for a finance newspaper) All you have to do is take them to the pub and you can find out who's doing what illegal shit. or whos flogging synthetic opioids to the rust belt

I don't have this personal experience but there have been whistleblowers and even hidden camera exposés on a lot of this shit. James O'Keefe had a big undercover interview with a Pfizer employee, and not long after the board of his nonprofit went rogue and sunk the whole thing. He is still fighting them in court. No doubt they were all bought by Big Pharma or something, because it makes no sense otherwise.

Look at the Boeing situation. 2 whistleblowers dead within weeks of each other, and 10 more living in fear. And that's not even the government or the richest company around. Even though Boeing has been exposed, they haven't made any major changes yet.

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