You Have Been Lied To

Science, the real science, being the making of observations, followed by a hypothesis, followed by experimentation to disprove the hypothesis, has been undone by influential "scientists" in a number of fields, to the public's detriment. Real science is never settled. Indeed, the theory of gravity is only a theory yet to be disproved. Once one understands how real science works, one becomes suspicious whenever someone appeals to the authority of a "consensus of scientists," for there can be no such consensus in real science.

One such field is that of nutrition. I have recently read a book by Nina Teicholz entitled Big Fat Surprise Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet. The book, of which fully half of it is just footnotes referring to published scientific papers, explains how we came to believe that a low fat high carbohydrate diet LFHC was healthy. It turns out that it is not healthy, and has resulted in the obesity epidemic facing Americans, as well as a whole list of the "diseases of modern civilization." Teicholz spent a decade working on the book, and it shows. The story is one of egotism, a very influential doctor with a flawed idea, narcissism, billion dollar corporate greed of both Big Food and Big Pharma, and of course government connivance. For a look at what a proper human diet might look like, go visit Dr. Ken Berry, who advocates for a low carbohydrate, high fat (LCHF) diet he calls the carnivore diet. But there are many LCHF doctors now, that advocate for a range of LCHF diets depending on individual needs.

It turns out that the public's understanding of the threat to health of radiation has been similarly distorted by the influence of a group of people to fulfill their own agenda. John Dale Dunn, MD brings this to light at the American Thinker today in an article entitled The Nuclear Theory You Never Knew Was Nonsense.

Gentle readers should know that investigating the history of how we came to believe in the Linear-No Threshold Toxicology (LNT) model, that pervades both the radiation and the chemical exposure worlds is to go down a rabbit hole. Just as my investigation of the high carbohydrate, low fat diet sent me down a rabbit hole that has consumed many hours of reading, and videos, there are a number of hyperlinks in Dunn's article, that if followed completely will consume a lot of time. But Dunn has done the yeoman's work to tell us that the LNT is nonsense. Like everything else, the dose makes the poison. A low level of radiation above the background is benificial, known as hormesis.

LNT says there is no safe level of radiation exposure, but obviously, the better rule is the rule of Paracelsus: "All things are poison and nothing is without poison; only the dose makes that a thing is no poison." (The dose makes the poison.) No threshold of LNT throws that maxim out the window.

My negative attitude about LNT was nurtured by a twenty-plus-year interest in the work of Ed Calabrese, U. Mass Amherst, reigning expert on low-level radiation hazards and the theory of heresies (sic-should be hormesis) that asserts a tri-phasic effect of exposure of all kinds — 1) a no effect level, 2) a beneficial effect at low exposure levels, and 3) a toxic effect at higher levels of exposure. My medical experience with drug effects shows that same hermetic diphasic effect — drugs have a sweet spot between no effect and toxic effect.

Please go read Dunn's short article, and as many hyperlinks as you have time for. Understand that this is why we do not have nuclear power in this country, which would be a great boon. Just like the fact that the low fat, high carbohydrate diet made you and me fat, and Big Food and Big Pharma rich, the LNT has denied us the beneficial use of radiation. You have been lied to about fat, about the climate hoax, and about radiation.