You’ve smelled this your entire life and it was never the rain.
The smell of rain isn’t rain. It’s a molecule called geosmin, produced by soil bacteria. Humans can detect it at just 5 parts per trillion, thousands of times more sensitive than most smells.
When raindrops hit dry soil, they launch microscopic aerosols carrying geosmin into the air, like invisible champagne bubbles.
Scientists think this sensitivity helped early humans find water.
Even camels use it to navigate deserts from miles away.
That “earth after rain” smell is survival, written in chemistry.
1911: Procter & Gamble invents Crisco - hydrogenated cottonseed oil.
Problem: Nobody wants to cook with cottonseed oil. It's industrial waste used for making soap.
Solution: Marketing campaign to convince Americans that animal fats cause heart disease.
1948: American Heart Association is tiny organization with $1,700 budget.
Also 1948: Procter & Gamble donates $1.7 million to the American Heart Association.
The AHA suddenly becomes influential and well-funded.
1961: The AHA issues their first dietary guidelines: Avoid saturated fat. Use vegetable oils instead.
Recommended oils: Crisco and other vegetable oils.
Who benefits: Procter & Gamble.
Who funded the AHA: Procter & Gamble.
1980s: Trans fats (in Crisco and margarine) are discovered to be catastrophically unhealthy.
2015: Trans fats are finally banned as unsafe.
For 67 years, the American Heart Association recommended a product that:
Was invented as soap ingredient
Was made from industrial waste
Was later proven to cause heart disease
Was produced by their founding mega-donor
And they told you butter would kill you while recommending literal poison.
When trans fats were finally proven deadly, they quietly changed recommendations without acknowledging the millions who followed their advice.
No apologies. No accountability. Guidelines adjusted. Move on.
The organization you're told to trust for heart health was created by a soap company to sell industrial waste as food.
Science.
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@larsenphil1208@marklevinshow You’re missing the point. Of course all Americans hate terrorism and radical ideology causing harm, but his positions have nothing to do with those issues. If he was winning on a “jihadist” platform he’d be run out of the city. Lol
@seanhannity Is that it or did the intelligence community basically come out and say the bombing was ineffective or at best inconclusive? Doesn’t that give Iran a win since the “peace deal” now basically lets them go back to the status quo
@WallStreetMav This anti-Muslim rhetoric is playing right into their hands. I guess you don’t realize minorities in NY and most of the world sympathizes with the plight of genocided people