Jonna Zizak

[Jonna Zizak @jonna141]

@CloakAndGlomar One of my favorites is Smokey Mountain Christmas!

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If you had trusted the settled science of the day, here is how it would have gone.

1890s: you dose the baby with Bayer's new cough syrup, the non-addictive alternative to morphine, marketed for children. It was heroin. They named it after the German for heroic.

1900s: you rub calomel teething powder on your infant's gums. It is a mercury compound, and it leaves a generation with pink disease. Swollen, peeling hands and feet, screaming for months, and some of them died.

1910s: you cook in Crisco, launched by a soap and candle company, because cottonseed oil is modern and lard is what your mother used. The process that made it solid produced trans fat, banned outright a century later.

1920s: you drink Radithor, certified radioactive water, on prescription. Eben Byers took fourteen hundred bottles for his vitality. His jaw was removed in pieces and he was buried in a lead coffin.

1930s: a chemist dissolves a new sulfa drug in diethylene glycol, which is antifreeze. It kills 107 people, mostly children, and only then does America give the FDA power to demand safety testing.

1940s: your doctor lights a Camel in the surgery. More doctors smoke them than any other brand, and the advert runs in the Journal of the American Medical Association, which sold him the page.

1950s: DDT is sprayed over your kitchen, your garden and your children at school. The man who found its insecticidal properties has already been given a Nobel Prize.

1960s: your wife takes thalidomide for morning sickness because it is remarkably safe. More than ten thousand children are born with missing and shortened limbs.

1970s: the country puts down the butter and picks up the margarine, on the instruction of the American Heart Association. The fat everybody switched to was banned in 2015 as unsafe at any level.

1980s: the fat comes out of everything and sugar goes back in to make it edible. Obesity begins a climb it has never come off.

1990s: your father is prescribed OxyContin, because fewer than one per cent get addicted. The company later pleads guilty to criminal misbranding, and the overdose count runs into hundreds of thousands.

2000s: you take Vioxx for your knee. It is pulled in 2004, and the FDA's own safety officer estimates tens of thousands of excess heart attacks.

Not one of those was fringe. Every one had a professional body, a literature and a man in a white coat standing behind it.

Nobody who followed that advice was stupid. They were obedient, to the most qualified people available.

Settled is a word about money. It means the questions stopped being funded, so they stopped being asked.

So which of today's instructions will your grandchildren read out in disbelief.

The oil washed in hexane and built into every cell you own. The statin that blocks the pathway making your hormones, to prevent one heart attack per hundred people. The injection where a third of the loss is muscle. The infant formula built out of vegetable oil.

All settled. None of it funded to be otherwise.

[Jonna Zizak @jonna141]

@ChewingTheVoid @megynkelly @JohnMappin @RealCandaceO @IanCarrollShow @LionelMedia He looks so sad.

[Jonna Zizak @jonna141]

@thegarybrecka Prioritize sleep!

[Jonna Zizak @jonna141]

@zakwilliams Your dad was incredibly kind to my cousin when he was fighting leukemia. He and my aunt loved the day your dad spent with them. After his death your parents adopted a redwood in my cousins honor. That gesture was so kind and unexpected and meant so much to the family.

[Jonna Zizak @jonna141]

@IanRunkle Sword is almost always the right answer!

[Jonna Zizak @jonna141]

@letstalkliveytc And where's the vomit that was on his clothes?

[Jonna Zizak @jonna141]

@letstalkliveytc Also if he was hit, fell and was pretty much immediately incapacitated, how did that blood get all around the scene?

[Jonna Zizak @jonna141]

@defense_diaries When will you be going over these?

[Jonna Zizak @jonna141]

@defense_diaries Such a great podcast! But also why did 80s teenagers look 30?!

[Jonna Zizak @jonna141]

@HobanAcctg @IanRunkle Loved this series. Remind me of Alas Babylon by Pat Frank from the 50s.

[Jonna Zizak @jonna141]

@IanRunkle Chaos

[Jonna Zizak @jonna141]

@Bederowlaw @Dave_USMC_FTW @defense_diaries @AlilawMotta @lauriemullenesq I wish that was explained better to juries. Maybe so many wouldn't get it wrong.

[Jonna Zizak @jonna141]

@CryptoBeast2030 @Osint613 @AZ_Intel_ @grok ATC f-ed up big time.

[Jonna Zizak @jonna141]

@TrueCrimeAudit @kattnotwilliams @aburkhartlaw @defense_diaries @StarowNiklas I love a good @aburkhartlaw rant! They are so rare yet always so spot on!

[Jonna Zizak @jonna141]

@BanksChnl @OwenShroyer1776 Sloptart added to vocabulary.

[Jonna Zizak @jonna141]

@defense_diaries I am not sure if she's innocent but I also do not think the state proved this beyond a reasonable doubt. There are just to many holes.

[Jonna Zizak @jonna141]

@sushantkumar67 @Osint613 Nope. I was watching this happen live with storm chasers right there.

[Jonna Zizak @jonna141]

@mowsh51 @Osint613 Fun fact. Tornadoes happen in every state in the USA. I found that fascinating.

[Jonna Zizak @jonna141]

@sleepinsixty @fairfield_terri @LawyerYouKnow I also find it funny it was the BIL who called about the insurance money THE NEXT DAY and not Kouri. I dont know something about the BIL isnt sitting right with me.