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This is quickly becoming an Apocalypse thread.
We all need to be him.
Read on the news today that āevidence for God particleā was found, but the not the actual particle, which is why theyāre hesitant to claim they discovered it? Discuss?
If theyāve actually found something and it isnāt just empty hype, I donāt know that there would be a substantive difference between the two.
Heh, youāre one of my favorite posters on SRK for good reason.
Scientists Invent Particles That Will Let You Live Without Breathing
Pretty darn cool
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"Edit: Cern say that this is one of several videos they have made, one for each of the possible outcomes, as though itās a presidential election and theyāve written one speech for victory and one for defeat. That sounds a bit odd to me, but I dare say all shall become clear tomorrow. Iāve quickly taken down what the Cern press officer said to me over the phone: see bottom of the story."
what the hell LOL! These boffins are getting a little ahead of themselves
you make good point.
at the same time you have to consider the vast amount of curruption in the field of medicine today.
drug companies want to make one thing and one thing only.
synthetic drugs.
for one reason.
because the real money isnāt in the manufacturing or distribution of drugs ā¦the real money to be made in pharmaceuticals is in the patenting of moving molecule A to co-join with molecule B. and keeping everyone from making the same drug by that patent.
this is why pharmaceutical drug companies have no interest in nature based chemicals/drugs.
coz you canāt patent natureā¦thereās no big money to be made there.
so,
when a doc writes you a ,letās say, a anti-fungal topical treatment.
heās not gonna write you a prescription for colloidal silver. or tea tree oil, or something nature-based to that effect.
heās gonna write you a prescript for some synthetically made bullshit. like clotrimazole. or miconazole. or lamisil. etc.
something synthetic, lab made, and patented.
well, heāll do thatā¦
as long as he and his medical licensing board keeps getting those money grants and kick backs from those pharma companies to promote their product via written prescriptions.
soā¦iād be more wary of what the āestablishedā medical communityās opinions are toward āalternativeā medicine.
in my personal experience.
i was on synthroid aka syncrap for years as treatment for hypothyroidism.
this is what 99% of endocrinologists prescribe for hypothyroidism sufferers.
meanwhile, T4 hormone-only synthetic meds like synthroidā¦
are 100% bullshit in treating hypothyroidism.
its snake oil. it doesnāt work. and it leaves the vast vast majority of hypo patients dangerously hypothyroid.
1 & 1/2 years ago i find out from my doc that my immune system is almost completely destroyed. almost no T and white blood cellsā¦and my cholesterol at heart attack levels. 300 bad over just 30 good.
reason.
bullshit snake oil synthroid.
i immediately stopped listening to my doctorsā¦i stopped taking their āword for it.ā and switched to desiccated thyroid extract which is just dehydrated porcine thyroid glands that still have the hormones kept into the glands upon dehydration.
now that,ā¦that natural drugā¦
actually fucking works! unlike the BULLSHIT synthroid that every doc prescribes to hypothyroid patients.
Q:so why do 99% of docs prescribe sythroid over desiccated thyroid to hypothyroidism patients?
A:$$
as long as docs keep getting those grants and monetary perks and hand outs from those big pharma makers of synthetic hormone bullshitā¦they are gonna keep handing out prescriptions for shit they know full wellā¦DOES NOT WORK.
endocrinologists know full well that T4 only sythnetic drugs like synthroid doesnāt work in treating hypothyroidism.
and they know desiccated thyroid extract does workā¦
its not that they think synthroid>desiccatedā¦its that
THEY DONāT CARE!
they donāt care about a patientās health or well being.
they just care what benefits their wallet.
donāt make the mistake in thinking that the medical community cares about your health first and foremost.
the patientās health is the least of all concerns.
a doctor is gonna prescribe you what benefits their wallet, not your health.
anybody would be naive to think otherwise.
i was naive once.
i thought my health was what was my doctorās first concern.
i was wrong.
i wish i was savierā¦sooner.
if i had been less naive years and years ago,ā¦and had not taken my doctors words for itā¦my immune system would still be normal. instead of decimated. ruined by bullshit ineffective āmedsā that were prescribed only to line somebodyās pockets with big pharma money even at the cost of my health.
so donāt knock or be quick to scoff at alternative medicineā¦coz established medicine isnāt something thats very trustworthy either.
Higg Boson-like particle discovered. It was one of Dr. Bās pubes.
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Nobody in this business works for free. Thatās true for big pharma, but itās also true for homeophaths, chiropractors, etc.
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The difference is that alternative medicine isnāt consistent with medical scienceāi.e. mechanisms in human biochemistry that can observably heal damaged tissue or battle infectious diseases.
In order for a medical treatment to be robustly studied, multiple independent studies must be conducted and four questions must be fulfilled.
- How many subjects got better on the treatment?
- How many subjects didnāt get better on the treatment?
- How many subjects got better without the treatment?
- How many subjects didnāt get better without the treatment?
In order to be considered mainstream, a medical treatment must satisfy these requirements in a way that indicates that using the treatment is significantly likely to produce positive results, and it must do so in multiple independent studies whose findings confirm one another.
Alternative medical literature frequently omits at least a couple of those questions, preferring to focus on success stories and ignoring contradictory evidence.
Of course itās possible to get better when on an alternative treatment, but it doesnāt mean that the treatment will be successful in enough cases to pass the test outlined above.
By all means, stay informed and get second opinions. Doctors are not perfect, are capable of making errors in judgment, are often āencouragedā to push certain treatments, and so on. But also take care not to throw out the baby with the bathwater. For sick people who want to get better, legit medical science is still the best bet.
āAlternativeā medicine has worked very well with me. āMainstreamā doctors for the most part donāt seem to care and like to prescribe a cocktail of pills that end up killing you. Iām not trying to knock anybody/thing off, but I would like to point out that people donāt know everything.
well, it is people who are administering āalternativeā medicine too.
After the bad news from Colorado, I almost forgot.
On this day in 1969, we became the first intelligent race that we know of to visit another world. Itās boggling to imagine what it must have been like for the intrepid explorers who took those unfathomable first steps.
āIād like to take this opportunity to ask every person listening in, whoever and wherever they may be, to pause for a moment and contemplate the events of the past few hours, and to give thanks in his or her own way.ā - Buzz Aldrin, 7/20/1969
Itās a strange dichotomy: an example of our capacity for destruction, on the anniversary of (literally) the greatest heights weāve ever reached.
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If anything Iām sad that publicly funded space exploration has regressed as much as it has. I remember as a kid hearing that a manned mission to Mars was planned in 2014. Sure I was probably 8 years old, and it was probably a date some mid level NASA dude pulled out of his ass, but it was so exciting to know Iād be around to witness it.
At the same time I guess much of the fuel behind Apollo 11 was the space race and robot missions are much cheaper for the same scientific value, but Iād still love to see a manned mission in my lifetime.
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hell yeah moon landing!
but fuck NASA. stuff in the government is bloated with red tape, corruption, politics and incompetence. tyson lamented the budget cuts with NASA and said that we as a nation have stopped dreaming. i agree we stopped dreaming cause everyone is watching jersey shore, but NASA is not the vehicle for accomplishing our dreams.
NASA has done its job. the government should share that knowledge with private corporations, and in addition subsidize their endeavors. kinda like how the government invented the prototype for the internets, but private individuals/corporations were the ones that made it into something the government could never have even dared to dream of. there are enough deserving aerospace companies at this point. like the one run by john carmack, the baller who wrote the code for the doom and quake engines, the greatest first person shooters of all time, and then because heās such a baller genius, taught himself aerospace engineering and started his own company that just happened to win the Level 1 Lunar Lander Challenge