90% of Americans believe at least one conspiracy theory (3 Viewers)

[guidomerkinsrules]

My thoughts are very oversimplified on the matter but I believe that a major downgrade in common sense and independent thinking has led to people latching on to wild theories.
People simply can't think for themselves and will devour anything thrown their way. The internet has made it too easy for some people to believe literally anything they read.

The story of how the FCC came to be starts with a quack doctor who convinced men that his sewing goat testicles on them would cure their impotence
There’s a reason ‘snake oil salesman’ and ‘yellow journalism’ have existed for a century - we have always been thus

 

[Optimus Prime]

Do fad diets count as conspiracy theories?
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Anthony Chaffee is dressed in a tight gray T-shirt that shows off his muscular physique. He works at a private medical practice in Australia that specializes in functional medicine, an umbrella term popularized in the 1990s to describe unregulated alternative medicine.

He is telling me, as he tells many of his patients, that the solution to dealing with the threat posed by vegetables is to choose meat over almost all other types of food.

“Plants are trying to kill you,” Chaffee says within the first few minutes of our first video call. “We have some defenses, and that’s why some plants are edible, but they still cause harm with long-term exposure over years and decades,” he continues, comparing the long-term health impacts of eating salad to those of cigarettes and alcohol.

Chaffee is one of the leading exponents of the carnivore diet, the latest trend in the wellness universe, in which people claim they turned around their health – and their lives – by eating bowls piled high with ground beef and boiled eggs.

The diet has been platformed by Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson. Peterson recently tried to evangelize about its magical healing properties to a circumspect Elon Musk…….

Self-proclaimed carnivores eat mostly four ingredients: beef, bacon, butter and eggs. (Some incorporate other raw dairy products, selected fruits such as blueberries and seafood into their regimens.)

Influencers share recipes for delicacies such as “beef lattes” (coffee, butter, beef protein, colostrum, cinnamon) and snack on “pup patties” from In-N-Out’s secret menu (unseasoned beef, so called because you can safely give it to your dog).

According to its fans, the benefits of the diet range from rapid weight loss to the healing of long-term chronic conditions including depression, polycystic ovary syndrome, acne, eczema, diabetes and psoriasis.

According to almost everyone else – including the registered nutritionists and doctors trying to treat people who have tried the diet for prolonged periods – a diet of only meat with no vegetables or grains is, at best, a form of disordered eating, and at worst incredibly damaging for its adherents, particularly in the long term……..

“I’ve had people sit in my clinic and tell me they ‘feel so much better’, and I’m looking at blood test results with clinical signs and symptoms that are telling me the exact opposite, but it’s getting ignored,” Shine says.

One of Shine’s recent patients was someone following the carnivore diet who had been referred into her care by his doctor.

“He walked in and he said: ‘I’m only here because I have to tick a box. You can tell me whatever, but I’m not stopping eating butter and I’m not going to stop eating steak.’”

Over the course of eight weeks, she was able to slowly find common ground with him, encourage him to read outside of his echo chamber and eventually get him off the diet.

“I’d never seen cholesterol so high, and so bad. I have so much empathy for people that think it’s working, but I would challenge whether it is working for them.”

While some of Shine’s patients face potential long-term health problems, in other cases the risks seem more obvious.

One influencer, Isabella Ma, who regularly films herself biting into sticks of butter, says she no longer needs to wear sunscreenbecause her skin doesn’t burn any more after she “[cut] out seed oils”.

This myth is perpetuated by many in the movement who proselytize about the benefits of replacing “toxic, hormone-disrupting” sunscreen with products made from beef tallow.……..

‘Plants are trying to kill you’: why carnivore influencers claim we should eat only meat

A growing crowd is hawking ‘beef lattes’ and chomping on sticks of butter, with some touting anti-vegetable conspiracy theories. Experts warn their diet is unsustainable

www.theguardian.com

 

[bigdaddysaints]

i mean, it's like Keto on steroids.
it'll help you lose weight quickly, but it isn't healthy long term..

 

[Eeyore]

Alex Jones warns of an "alien invasion" by "satanic interdimensional forces"

www.mediamatters.org

 

[Eeyore]

Meteorologists Get Death Threats as Hurricane Milton Conspiracy Theories Thrive

It's their job to warn residents about destructive storms — but political polarization has made them targets online

www.yahoo.com

 

[bigdaddysaints]

Meteorologists Get Death Threats as Hurricane Milton Conspiracy Theories Thrive

It's their job to warn residents about destructive storms — but political polarization has made them targets online

www.yahoo.com

i saw this article yesterday. i think soneone in the article mentioned this is making them lose faith in humainity.. they could not be more correct with that statement.
I posted about people being idiots believing hurricanes could be controlled. and of course one the MAGA friends had to turn it into how bad of a job FEMA is doing.. i'm like, that irrelivant to this situation. then he goes on comparing people believing this to people believing masks work.. this is what the RWNJs have steered this country towards... these conspiracy theorists have had a coming out party in the last 8 years. Used to they didn't show themselves in public because they were ridiculed, but now they are promoted and celebrated by certain people... I feel like it all started going downhill since Pizzagate..

 

[Yatman]

things will undoubtedly improve when the truth in information™ stewards take charge


/s

 

[Sun Wukong]

Meteorologists Get Death Threats as Hurricane Milton Conspiracy Theories Thrive

It's their job to warn residents about destructive storms — but political polarization has made them targets online

www.yahoo.com

This country is doomed. Everyone needs to realize this. There is no putting the toothpaste back in the tube with this insanity. When a huge chunk of the population is no longer rational and has completely lost the plot and is so far removed from reality, you cannot have a functional society.

And as much as I'd like to say this is just whackos on the internet, it isn't. I've personally heard this "theory" from multiple people in my life over the last week. Some I was very shocked by.

 

[bigdaddysaints]

This country is doomed. Everyone needs to realize this. There is no putting the toothpaste back in the tube with this insanity. When a huge chunk of the population is no longer rational and has completely lost the plot and is so far removed from reality, you cannot have a functional society.

And as much as I'd like to say this is just whackos on the internet, it isn't. I've personally heard this "theory" from multiple people in my life over the last week. Some I was very shocked by.

a coworker got mad at me the other day becasue i said people who believe this stuff are pretty stupid.. she made a comment like ' people are in need and you making jokes" and stormed off.. but she is one who pretty much believes anything RWNJs put out there..

 

[The Nomad]

Meteorologists Get Death Threats as Hurricane Milton Conspiracy Theories Thrive

It's their job to warn residents about destructive storms — but political polarization has made them targets online

www.yahoo.com

Come on giant meteor!

 

[Eeyore]

i saw this article yesterday. i think soneone in the article mentioned this is making them lose faith in humainity.. they could not be more correct with that statement.
I posted about people being idiots believing hurricanes could be controlled. and of course one the MAGA friends had to turn it into how bad of a job FEMA is doing.. i'm like, that irrelivant to this situation. then he goes on comparing people believing this to people believing masks work.. this is what the RWNJs have steered this country towards... these conspiracy theorists have had a coming out party in the last 8 years. Used to they didn't show themselves in public because they were ridiculed, but now they are promoted and celebrated by certain people... I feel like it all started going downhill since Pizzagate..

You had faith in humanity?

 

[The Nomad]

You had faith in humanity?

I do, just not in the US.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

a coworker got mad at me the other day becasue i said people who believe this stuff are pretty stupid.. she made a comment like ' people are in need and you making jokes" and stormed off.. but she is one who pretty much believes anything RWNJs put out there..

you later let her know you weren't joking. correct?

 

[bigdaddysaints]

you later let her know you weren't joking. correct?

she knows very much where i stand on conspiracy theroies, although i would love nothing more than to really just call her out straight up, i can't. I am her supervisor, so if i called her stupid directly, i would probably end up in HR..lol

 

[Sailorsaint]

You had faith in humanity?

Don’t worry, Mother Nature is slowly trying to get rid of the infestation plaguing her body.