The year is 1949.
The Nobel Prize in Medicine has just gone to the man who invented the lobotomy. Your doctor suggests one for your sister, who has not been herself since the baby came. It is the most celebrated advance in psychiatry of the age, and he is simply current. By the time the prize curdles into an embarrassment, close to twenty thousand Americans have had the operation, and proportionally more here in Britain.
The year is 1956.
Lay the baby down on his front, the doctor says. So does the most trusted childcare book ever written, the one on every new mother's shelf. On his back he might choke, the reasoning goes. Millions obey. The advice holds for nearly thirty years, long after the evidence has quietly turned, and a generation of cot deaths is counted before anyone thinks to roll the babies over.
The year is 1966.
A bestselling book informs your wife that menopause is a disease, that she is, in the author's word, a castrate, and that a small daily pill will keep her youthful and tolerable to live with. Her doctor agrees. The drug becomes one of the most prescribed in the country. Nobody mentions that the author sat on the payroll of the company that made it. That detail surfaces decades later, in the same year the landmark trial is halted early for raising rates of breast cancer, stroke and clots.
The year is 1979.
Your ulcer is caused by stress and sharp food, the doctor explains. Calm down, drink milk, take the antacid that happens to be the best-selling medicine on earth. Two Australians are about to prove that most ulcers are caused by a bacterium and cured by a fortnight of antibiotics. The profession laughs. One of them eventually drinks a beaker of the stuff to settle the matter. The establishment takes the better part of twenty years to stop laughing. The Nobel lands in 2005.
The year is 1985.
Butter is dangerous, the doctor says. Switch to margarine, it is modern, it is heart-healthy, the experts are united. The spread he nudges you toward is loaded with trans fats, which the next decade will identify as the genuinely dangerous one, and which will eventually be banned outright. The butter goes quietly back in the fridge. No correction is ever printed at the volume of the original warning.
The year is 1992.
There is a pyramid on the surgery wall, and the very same one in your grandchild's classroom. Bread, cereal, rice and pasta form the broad virtuous base, up to eleven servings a day. Fat is exiled to the tiny tip. The chart was reportedly held back a year while the relevant industries had their say. It is wrong at the bottom and wrong at the top.
Now it is today.
Your doctor has new guidelines, new studies, a fresh consensus, delivered with precisely the steady confidence of every guideline above. He believes it, and he has good reason to. So did every doctor in this thread. None of them were villains. Each was sincere, most were kind, and all were certain, reading from a map that somebody else had drawn and handed them. That is the part worth sitting with.
So when the man in the white coat tells you what to eat, what to fear, and what to swallow every morning for the rest of your life, you are allowed to ask. Who paid for the study. What the evidence says beneath the headline. What he was just as certain about thirty years ago, and where that advice sits now.
Then make up your own mind. Call it scepticism, or call it whatever your grandmother called it when she ignored the advert, kept the butter where it was, and lived to ninety-one.
It has outlasted every consensus on this list. It will outlast this one too.
You make the point for me. If you were the originator of the red box, fantastic. Thanks for bringing this to light, we need more people like you, but to expect someone else to be able to trace back the original is misguided. As frustrating as it is to not be recognized for your efforts, is it not better that the information is being shared with so many?
Dear President Trump, Thomas Sowell is an American treasure. Please consider honoring him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. I can’t think of a greater representative of American values.
New movie “The Story of Everything” by Stephen Meyer is coming out soon. This looks fantastic. The sooner people abandon atheism the sooner we can return to sanity.
@enpassantguy@BGatesIsaPyscho I'm with you. It frustrates me to no end when I see NASA green screen videos and things like this. Are they deliberately trying to make people doubt or not trust them?
Aaron Siri: "They reported two children died of measles in Texas recently. We represent one of those families. That child did not die of measles. We have all the medical records… The other child we don't represent but… that also wasn't measles."
In 2023, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Steve Kirsch about the ONLY place where vaccine manufacturers are honest.
And that’s in the manufacturer’s insert.
When you look closely at those inserts, you’ll notice an “amazing coincidence.”
And what that “amazing coincidence” is is that each of the 405 diseases that have become epidemic since 1989 is listed as a side effect in the vaccine inserts.
Autism is among those diseases listed.
Critics of RFK Jr. will say manufacturers will “throw the kitchen sink” on those inserts to keep their butts covered.
But RFK Jr. says “that’s not true,” pointing to a federal law.
“The Federal law says that they’re not allowed to list anything on that manufacturer’s insert unless [the] FDA determines that it is LIKELY that the vaccine caused that injury.”
What’s also an “amazing coincidence” is that scientists have found aluminum in the brains of children with autism—at levels HIGHER than almost any human brain tissue ever recorded.
Aluminum is a known neurotoxin. It’s not supposed to be in the brain at all, especially not during early development, when the brain is most vulnerable.
We know aluminum is used in many vaccines to amplify immune response. But where does that aluminum actually end up?
@MidwesternDoc investigated. And what this medical researcher uncovered could change everything you thought you knew about vaccines. 🧵
Here is the full chronological list of the 37 miracles recorded across the four Gospels:
1 Turning Water into Wine
2 Curing the Nobleman's Son
3 The Miraculous Catch of Fish
4 Casting out an Unclean Spirit
5 Healing Peter's Mother-in-Law
6 Healing Many Sick at Evening
7 Cleansing the Leper
8 Healing the Centurion's Servant
9 Healing the Paralytic
10 Healing the Withered Hand
11 Raising the Widow’s Son at Nain
12 Calming the Storm
13 Curing the Gerasene Demoniac
14 Healing the Woman with the Issue of Blood
15 Raising Jairus’ Daughter
16 Healing Two Blind Men
17 Curing a Mute Demoniac
18 Healing at the Pool of Bethesda
19 Feeding the 5,000
20 Walking on Water
21 Healing Many in Gennesaret
22 Healing the Syrophoenician
23 Woman’s Daughter
24 Healing the Deaf and Mute Man
25 Feeding the 4,000
26 Healing the Blind Man of Bethsaida
27 Healing the Boy with an Unclean Spirit
28 The Coin in the Fish’s Mouth
29 Healing a Blind Man from Birth
30 Healing a Spirit-Oppressed Woman
31 Healing a Man with Dropsy
32 Cleansing the Ten Lepers
33 Raising Lazarus from the Dead
34 Healing Blind Bartimaeus
35 Cursing the Fig Tree
36 Healing the High Priest’s Servant's Ear
37 The Second Miraculous Catch of Fish
"And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written." — John 21,25
This kind of anti-christian propaganda can be incredibly damaging to people's faith if they don't see what's really going on and how deceptive it is. So let's take a deep breath and think about this.
Firstly, you don't go to hell "for being an atheist." Atheists don't even exist, and you go to hell for sinning. All humans sin. We lie... cheat... steal... etc. We all fall short of God's perfect standard. That's why God made a way for us to still enter back into a relationship with Him, but that requires us to repent, to turn from sin. The problem is that not everyone chooses to accept God's grace, so they go to hell, which is what we all deserve anyway. You might not like that, but your opinion is irrelevant.
Secondly, this meme treats repentance like a magic "get out of jail free" card. This is a caricature of Christianity and what it teaches. Repentance is about more than just saying "sorry God" right before you die. It's about genuinely turning your entire life around and dying to yourself. It's not a flippant thing like the meme suggests.
Thirdly, the meme plays strongly on our intuition about justice, but where does justice come from? Atheists want to say that this isn't just, but according to who, them? It's all just subjective and arbitrary on their view. The problem here is that atheists are trying to do an internal critique and an external critique at the same time. This is pretty much all they do btw. If they were purely doing an internal critique they would never question the justice or fairness of God because on our worldview that doesn't make sense (God is perfect), but if they try to do an external critique and judge God from their worldview, they're standing on a foundation of nothing. They don't have anything solid they can appeal to that would justify this claim. So instead they try to do both at the same time and just hope no one notices.
@4gottnHistory A little known fact is that this is the original architect drawings of the pyramids. He drew it while having an omelet with an Egyptian architect who stole his idea. There was a bitter feud that developed between them as a result, and they refused to be seen in public together.