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Reason and logic are missing in the world today. My tweets and replies are my own opinions. Likes and retweets don’t necessarily constitute an endorsement.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

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.

[RRL @RealReasonLogic]

@NateWimberly @WBTV_Sports @WBTV_News Was there rioting like with @NBA

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@ITISALWAYSBS @HJB_News__ No argument here.

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@ITISALWAYSBS @HJB_News__ Very likely, LOL. However, what caught my eye initially was sum is addition, product is multiplication. So your "what is the sum of 6x9", if not the joke, is incorrect.

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@ITISALWAYSBS @HJB_News__ Maybe I'm missing the joke...

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@TheRabbitHole @SkepResCenter The real question is, why did they so grossly underestimate it. Media, ignorance, all of the above?

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@MarioNawfal I visited Tokyo recently and it became obvious that public transportation doesnt have to be like this.

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@Alexoo4 You realize that makes it worse for you 😂😂😂

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@Alexoo4 @tmsilverman @IfindRetards

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Experts now consider strength training the single most potent habit for aging gracefully and extending lifespan.

Far from being just for athletes or bodybuilders, lifting weights—or any form of resistance exercise, including body-weight moves—has emerged as one of the most powerful tools for healthy aging. It does far more than add muscle: it fortifies bones, revs up metabolism, and sharply lowers the odds of diabetes, heart disease, and other chronic conditions.

As we get older, strength training switches on bone-forming cells, fights the natural loss of muscle mass known as sarcopenia, and keeps metabolism humming efficiently. For women, it’s especially valuable, helping offset the rapid bone-density decline triggered by menopause.

The benefits extend well beyond the physical. Regular resistance work improves balance and coordination, dramatically cutting the risk of falls—the top cause of injury among older adults. It also protects the brain by enhancing insulin sensitivity, dialing down inflammation, and reducing dementia risk.

The good news? You don’t need heavy barbells or punishing workouts. Even moderate, consistent strength training delivers profound gains in both quality of life and longevity. In the words of one leading researcher, “Building and maintaining muscle may be the single best investment you can make in your future health and independence.”

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@Rainmaker1973 Obviously we are winning this war. I didn't see a single plastic straw...

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@scottforco @FreeStateColor1 @NaquettaR That works, LOL. I wish you success. Colorado is sinking and we need people like you.

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@COHouseDem @NaquettaR Can we bring action against the companies for not verifying citizenship? You know, enforcing the laws and regulations that already exist?

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I heard that CO was in such bad shape from an energy supply standpoint that Polis begged Trump to institute these mandates and he would not be opposed (so he wouldn't be the bad guy), which is what happened. No one could account for the lunacy of what is @COHouseDem. When you get a clue on energy economics, then you can have a seat at the adult table. Until then, keep drinking your sippy cups at the children's table.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Every single thing you want in life is on the other side of something that sucks. That suck might be 100 workouts, 100 bland meals, 100 hours of work, or 100 hard conversations. Embrace it as the cost of entry. The answers you seek are found in the actions you avoid.

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Out of principle, I’ll never vote democrat.

[Gain of Fauci @DschlopesIsBack]

This INSANE poll shows just how crazy and authoritarian Democrats became during Covid

-55% supported fines against the unvaccinated simply for refusing the jab

-59% supported permanent house confinement for anyone who refused to get vaccinated

-45% supported the government having putting the unnvaccinated in quarantine camps

-47% supported "a government tracking program" to monitor unvaccinated citizens

-29% supported the state being able to REMOVE UNVACCINATED PARENTS' CUSTODY OVER THEIR OWN CHILDREN

-48% supported fines or PRISON for questioning vaccine efficacy on social media

-47% supported "a government tracking program" to monitor unvaccinated citizens

These are the exact same people that constantly accuse you of being a “fascist”

[Colorado Republican Party @cologop]

Hmmm 🤔 how’s does that happen with the Golden Standard in place?

Higher reported voter registrations than the estimated number of voting-age citizens

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And yet the other 99.7% get their 2A rights infringed...

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

When the city of Oakland implemented a program intended to curb its gun violence, they also exposed this interesting tidbit:

<0.5% of the population of the city does more than half of the gun violence.

They later revealed this was ~0.3%, or a little under 1,300 people.