(Part 3) Top products from r/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...

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.

If you mean one that's meant to purify a room like this, chances are it won't be able to completely remove the smell. They do help purify the air, but it's not concentrated enough for something like what your describing.

a mask filter would probably be your best bet for actually cleaning the air your breathing.

If you only care about the smell, I'd look at some odor-eliminator ideas from /r/trees

There is a post warning about toxicity, so some of the stuff there might not be what you need.

Complete bullshit. I’d just like to ask why you have to ask your mom to shave? You’re old enough to buy yourself some razors, dude. On the subject, I’d suggest a good double edge safety razor and some good shaving cream - it’s much better for sensitive, teenage skin and is just cheaper in the long run (the refill razor blades are like 10 cents each).

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.

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.

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

Offit, Paul A., M.D., Do You Believe in Magic? [amazon link, $6] The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine, 2013

Do You Believe in Magic, Page 60:

In response to the study, Steven Nissen, chairman of cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic, said, “The concept of multivitamins was sold to Americans by an eager nutraceutical industry to generate profits. There was never any scientific data supporting their usage.” On October 25, a headline in the Wall Street Journal asked, “Is This the End of Popping Vitamins?”

Studies haven’t hurt sales. In 2010, the vitamin industry grossed $28 billion, up 4.4 percent from the year before. “The thing to do with [these reports] is just ride them out,” said Joseph Fortunato, chief executive of General Nutrition Centers. “We see no impact on our business.”

How could this be? Given that free radicals clearly damage cells—and given that people who eat diets rich in substances that neutralize free radicals are healthier—why did studies of supplemental antioxidants show they were harmful? The most likely explanation is that free radicals aren’t as evil as advertised. Although it’s clear that free radicals can damage DNA and disrupt cell membranes, that’s not always a bad thing. People need free radicals to kill bacteria and eliminate new cancer cells. But when people take large doses of antioxidants, the balance between free radical production and destruction might tip too much in one direction, causing an unnatural state in which the immune system is less able to kill harmful invaders. Researchers have called this “the antioxidant paradox.” Whatever the reason, the data are clear: high doses of vitamins and supplements increase the risk of heart disease and cancer; for this reason, not a single national or international organization responsible for the public’s health recommends them.

Page 122:

...At the heart of the problem are mitochondria, small organelles in every cell that release free radicals while converting nutrients to energy. Because converting nutrients to energy is necessary for life—and because that process produces the free radicals that eventually kill us—we are, in effect, born to die…

Olshansky, Hayflick, and Carnes published their critique of anti-aging medicines in Scientific American in 2002...Although studies of antioxidants were just getting started, and they didn’t yet know the results, what they wrote was an ominous predictor of the future: “ […] But eliminating all free radicals would kill us, because they perform certain necessary intermediary steps in biochemical reactions.” And that’s exactly what happened. Studies have now shown that people who take large quantities of vitamins and dietary supplements with antioxidant activity are more likely to have cancer and heart disease and die sooner.

Offit, Paul A., M.D., Do You Believe in Magic? [amazon link, $6] The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine, 2013

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

The two active ingredients here are UVA and UVB sunscreen compounds. The rest are just normal moisturisers or products found in moisturisers.

Considering some of the causes, I don't think you're going to be able to sunblock or moisturise your way out of it!

I took the liberty of finding a similar product, unfortunately there isn't an extensive ingredient list but some reviews do look legit, so there is hope for all out there yet.

Edit: There's also [this one] (https://www.amazon.com/Natureday-Breast-Enhancement-liquid-C-90/dp/B001UFSRG8) but again no ingredients list, only info avaliable on the reviews/questions.

I like these books :

https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Physicalism-Reconciliation-Science-Spirituality/dp/1442232382

https://www.amazon.com/Boy-Who-Knew-Too-Much/dp/1401953425/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1541433567&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=boy+past+lives&dpPl=1&dpID=51XVBER6UbL&ref=plSrch

https://www.amazon.com/Life-Before-Childrens-Memories-Previous/dp/031237674X/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1541433596&sr=8-4&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=ian+stevenson+reincarnation&dpPl=1&dpID=41TryJKvduL&ref=plSrch

https://www.amazon.com/X-Acto-X7761-Self-healing-cutting-measuring/dp/B0013CKM2A Here's a tiny one from a well known hobby company. So, way more expensive than one from a hardware store.

Not bullshit. Read The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander for more info.

Not bullshit.

You can even order it from Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/Images-SI-Uranium-Ore/dp/B000796XXM

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.

According to Darien Cooper it is the opposite...

The interview is over an hour long so there's no way I'd watch the whole thing, but after skipping around a bit it looks like she's mostly re-hashing old debunked ideas like the claim that the aluminum/mercury/scary-chemical-of-the-week in vaccines causes autism even though we know that vaccines and autism are not associated with each other. Added onto that is her claim that a virus called XMRV has somehow contaminated vaccines, and this virus causes neurological disorders including autism and CFS.

Judy Mikovits has some rather intimate history with XMRV, having been one of the publishers of a study demonstrating a link between XMRV and CFS, as well as claiming that XMRV was transmissible in humans via infected blood donors. This study could not be reproduced by others, and upon further examination its methodology was called into question. After that things got rather nasty, with the main authors refusing to completely retract the paper until the journal Science was forced to finally retract it without author consent, siting poor quality control and evidence of data manipulation.

Mikovits was also fired from her position at the Whittemore Peterson Institute, sued for taking the laboratory notebooks with her data in them without permission, and then arrested when she apparently ignored the suit, though charges were later dropped. She claims to have taken the notebooks in order to copy her data down so that she and her fellow authors could figure out what happened, though I have no idea why such a huge amount of drama had to be generated over it if that was her only intention.

Oddly enough Mikovits also played a minor role in a more definitive study that found no link between XMRV and CFS, even though based on her book she still firmly believes the connection exists. The whole case is fucking bizarre and reeks of unnecessary human drama getting in the way of actual science, but the one thing I took away from it is that Mikovits probably shouldn't be trusted as an authority on autism and vaccines. She clearly has an axe to grind and, thanks to her book, a monetary interest in getting people as scared as possible.