@LoreofRunning

data is a funny thing. it can illuminate or occlude, show you reality or distort it hopelessly and oftentimes, it's as much about what data one chooses to use. i'll use this as an example: cruise ship outbreaks of GI issues (90%+ caused by norovirus) happen every year and if you want to see a trend, you can. they have been high in the post covid years and are making new highs eclipsing 2006-7. but cruise ship patronage has basically tripled since then. so per capita, it's down about 65% from 2007. which trend you pick will determine what story you see. we can spin this as "unprecedented danger" or "much safer than 20 years ago." what effect the times covidian had on "propensity to report" is also an open question that could be skewing data (though i have no idea or ability to measure). but i don't see anything worrying here. there are about a zillion reasons that i'd rather drink an entire pint glass of bees than go on a cruise, but disease isn't one of them.

High carbohydrate diets drive business to companies that profit from diabetes and heart disease medications.

There was no possibility of a “virus” being present in the cell culture as they were guaranteed contaminant free by the Cell Bank ATCC. Yet we found the morphologically identical particles of 27 different types of “viruses” in there including Hantavirus.

My dad spent 40 years working for the company that made the drugs that were supposed to save his life. He was on statins before most people knew what a statin was. Blood pressure medication. Cholesterol perfectly controlled on every single lab panel for four decades. His doctors loved his numbers. He looked great on paper. Then he got a coronary calcium score. And the man who helped manufacture the drugs meant to protect his heart landed in the 90th percentile for calcification. For his age group, at 60 years old. Let that sink in. His cholesterol was controlled. His blood pressure was controlled. His labs were textbook. And his arteries told a completely different story. This is the part that is completely ignored or remains unrealized by medicine ⬇️ The cholesterol hypothesis, the idea that LDL is the primary driver of heart disease and that lowering it prevents cardiac events, was built on population-level data that never fully held up at the individual level. It became pharmaceutical gospel anyway. Here is what the research is quietly telling us now. Coronary calcium scores are one of the strongest predictors of actual cardiac events we have. Stronger than LDL. Stronger than total cholesterol. A person with high LDL and a calcium score of zero has a lower near-term risk than someone with “controlled” cholesterol and a score like my dad’s. Statins lower LDL. That part works. What they were never fully proven to do in primary prevention populations is meaningfully reduce the likelihood of dying from a heart attack. The number needed to treat is not what the commercials imply. Meanwhile the drivers that actually calcify arteries, chronic inflammation, insulin resistance, oxidative stress, seed oil-driven lipid peroxidation, mineral dysregulation, were never addressed. Not once. My dad built his career on these drugs. He trusted them completely. The labs looked perfect all the way to the scan that changed everything. Controlled is not the same as protected.