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u/mr_bacon_pants · 2 pointsr/IsItBullshit

Another reference is The One-Minute Cure: The Secret to Healing Virtually All Diseases, which is a book (more like a pamphlet) that tells you how to do a protocol of taking h2o2 orally. Aside from the snake oil, miracle cure book title, it has a ton of positive reviews that all read like "I was paid to say this." Though I don't know anyone with a disease who has tried, successfully or not, treating it with h2o2 so I can't say. But if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...

u/AldoPeck · 2 pointsr/IsItBullshit
  1. ''Young'' as in your 20s-30s. Teenagers are practically children. Most political pollsters don't look to ppl that young. These are children that largely can't distinguish between fantasy and reality. Thats why they're not polled. Undeveloped brains.

  2. Right wing free market laissez faire economic policy hasn't developed a single 1st world country. Hamiltonian economics is what was used for every 1st world country. This required heavy government intervention that went against conservative economic theory. The parts about lack of worker rights fits conservative ideas, but that was reversed. This book explains it well https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Samaritans-Secret-History-Capitalism/dp/1596915986/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1500605237&sr=8-1&keywords=bad+samaritans

    >"a liberal anthropologist named J.D. Unwin did a massive amount of research trying to find a successful sexually libertine society at some point in history and wrote a book describing his findings, which were that virtually every society and civilization throughout history developed to great success when marriage, the nuclear family, and traditional morals and ethics became the accepted norm"

    Oh look, an anecdote. The Catholic Church is right I guess. You have to not wear contraception and stay in marriages you hate to stabilize society.
u/AnalogKid2112 · 34 pointsr/IsItBullshit

"Psychologists should stop saying that IQ tests measure intelligence. They should say that IQ tests measure abstract problem-solving ability."

That's a quote from the book IQ: A Smart History of a Failed Idea. Basically, IQ tests are good at measuring your aptitude at one or two aspects of intelligence. That's it. They don't measure how successful you will be, how you will perform under pressure, or other incredibly important traits like work ethic, social skills, ambition, and integrity.

There's seemingly an epidemic of kids being told they are geniuses when they are young, then growing up and being disheartened because it hasn't gotten them anywhere. Some will blame the school system or their parents or society for not harnessing their raw genius. I think the more likely explanation is that IQ itself isn't a good evaluation of intelligence and certainly not a good predictor of future success or happiness.

With that said, if you do have an IQ in that range (I only say if because the tests themselves are often flawed and prone to proctoring errors), it means you have a decent foundation for pursuing your interests. A high IQ isn't a trait you can just fall back on, but it will help when combined with a drive to sharpen your skills and better yourself.

u/ZendoVajra · 3 pointsr/IsItBullshit

It's not bullshit.

I recommend this for the science behind it: The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living
http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Science-Carbohydrate-Living/dp/0983490708

Some of the newer papers:
http://www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/v67/n8/full/ejcn2013116a.html

Easy read on the newest papers on the subject:
http://profgrant.com/2013/07/05/how-ketogenic-low-carb-high-fat-diets-work/

Basically it comes down to ketogenesis: If you starve your body of carbs (less than 20g a day) you will deplete the carbohydrate storage in the cells, as it gets less the liver will gradually start increasing the production of ketone bodies to run the various metabolic processes instead. Ketones are made by breaking down fatty acids dissolved in the blood stream.

It worked wonders for me, not in the weight loss aspect (was lean already), but got increased energy, mental clarity and better sleep.

u/howardson1 · 1 pointr/IsItBullshit

Tax credits for corporations are BS. Companies will often move plants from other locations, destroying jobs in those areas. And companies make decisions on opening a plant based on anticipated demand and the knowledge of workers in an area, so tax credits are unnecessary.Tax credits are also selective tax cuts that are made up by tax increases on other businesses, who are often competitors of the beneficiary of the tax credit.

[A good book] (http://www.amazon.com/The-Great-American-Jobs-Scam/dp/1576753158) and [a good paper] (http://www.unleashingcapitalismsc.org/pdf/chapter7.pdf) on the subject.

u/sammyjamez · 4 pointsr/IsItBullshit

can you please explain then? I only read about this in a book that I am reading right now called The Big Questions in Science: The Quest to Solve the Great Unknowns

u/SmokeyUnicycle · 12 pointsr/IsItBullshit

Ah, that's a good point there's a weasel word in there people are overlooking.

However:

You can overdose on dextromethorphan one of the active ingredients in Dayquil which was specifically mentioned by name by the OP.

https://www.amazon.com/Vicks-DayQuil-Multi-Symptom-Relief-LiquiCaps/dp/B005ZQP478?th=1

Take three of these packs, open them into a blender, add some nice fruit, ice and yogurt and enjoy ODing on this gross ass 50$ smoothie.

Edit: I have been informed you might need to use 6 or more packs to OD on that particular chemical and you might OD long before on some of the other ingredients so don't try and use this recreationally, it'd be bad.

u/owheelj · 2 pointsr/IsItBullshit

Wikipedia suggests it's bullshit;

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisfaction_with_Life_Index

I guess looking at the Wikipedia stats, it's plausible that if you group countries by dominate religion then Muslim wins, but all the top countries are secular, rather than religion dominated, and Islam would only be ahead of those if you're counting them as Christian because of all the low scoring developing world Christian countries.

This book (and he has an essay somewhere with the basic facts) shows that countries that have the lowest religious participation rates have the highest life satisfaction, life expectancy, education rates, and per capita wealth.

https://www.amazon.com/Society-without-God-Religious-Contentment/dp/0814797237

u/MatacBlunt · 46 pointsr/IsItBullshit

Here's what you're referring to: the book The Myth of Millionaire Tax Flight: How Place Still Matters for the Rich by Christobal Young. Here's a short version of the book. Millionaires and billionaires in the US and Worldwide don't actually leave their homes that much and stay where they have jobs or businesses, in general where they live.
The thing is, that the US and other developed nations should pursue not simply taxing the richest of the rich, but also the crackdown on tax havens.

u/catchierlight · 9 pointsr/IsItBullshit

Interestingly enough many defectors converted to Islam and this was actually related to their motivations in defecting, they felt that this permitted them more freedom and was in opposition in its stark difference from the crown and being subjugated to it ("only to the will of Allah will I submit..." learned this from this fantastic book https://www.amazon.com/Pirate-Utopias-Corsairs-European-Renegadoes/dp/1570271585

u/zyonker · 1 pointr/IsItBullshit

Buzzed: The Straight Facts About the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstacy

>pg. 114: "Because LSD is so potent and so easily dissolved, it is most often diluted and dissolved in liquid and then absorbed into a piece of blotter paper. No other drug is potent enough to be used in this form. Most of the LSD sold in this format is synthesized in just a few laboratories in northern California, and the product is almost invariably pure LSD...LSD is also sold in gelatin squares (window pane) and in tiny pills (microdots)."
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>"...the hallucinogenic and toxic effects of lysergic acid derivatives have been recognized for thousands of years. Certian species of morning glory seeds that provided a drug called ololuiqui or tlitlitzin in Mexico contain a related chemical, lysergic acid amide...an alcoholic beverage made by extraction of the seeds with a favorite form of alcohol will cause an LSD-like hallucinatory experience."

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u/amaxen · 5 pointsr/IsItBullshit

Pigs were banned because they were in an enviornment with very little water. Pigs like to tear up the topsoil to make a wallow and grub after roots and things. This doesn't matter if you're in a rainforest like most of Europe, but in the ME, the pigs would tear up the topsoil, and it would dry out and blow away. Source

u/aanzklla · 2 pointsr/IsItBullshit

This legend is so famous it made it into American Folklore: An Encyclopedia. https://www.amazon.com/American-Folklore-Encyclopedia-Reference-Humanities/dp/0815333501

> their first two years of university work is the belief that there is a standard waiting period for a professor who does not arrive punctually. The most common system requires students to wait five minutes for an instructor, ten for an assistant professor, fifteen for an associate professor, and twenty for a full professor, although one also hears of ten minutes for a non-Ph.D., twenty for a Ph.D., fifteen for most faculty, all period if necessary for a full professor.

Brunvand, Jan Harold. American Folklore: An Encyclopedia (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) (Kindle Locations 669-672). Taylor and Francis. Kindle Edition.


Look up under Academia, the first entry.

tl;dr It's bull.

u/WVPrepper · 0 pointsr/IsItBullshit

According to Darien Cooper it is the opposite...