Thanks. I figured I’d be blocked eventually because the opinions on that sub were so homogeneous, but it would have been fucked up if I had to make a new account to block the sub that banned me.

… it’s just baffling to me. Dissenting opinions are a good thing. Echo chambers aren’t healthy for the people in them. It’s just weird how the opinions of the people I know are so different than the opinions of people on the internet. It’s like I live in an alternate reality.

Personally, I don’t believe anyone has human rights. It is the wolves right to hunt the gazelle for food, and it’s the gazelle’s right to evade him. Although I am not against uplifting poorer countries, I feel like they would just become more wolves if they got their shit together.

I read it. It’s not compelling.

The first cited research regarding DNA damage is a dead link. It says “error: this is not a published article” or something like that.

The second cited research is an abstract claiming that 20% of mice developed lung cancer after being exposed to vape smoke for 9 weeks. The methodology is blocked behind a paywall, but I’m betting they concentrated trace components and blasted mice with it for two months straight. This isn’t very informative; if I concentrated the carcinogens found in normal city air, I could probably achieve a higher kill rate.

A better example of this strategy would be if I blasted mice with extremely high intensity UV radiation to prove that the sun was dangerous. Sure, 90% of mice would quickly get skin cancer, but it doesn’t tell us how harmful the sun is in real scenarios. Blasting an animal with a lifetime worth of sun in an hour is more dangerous than gradual exposure.

Tobacco the plant has a host of carcinogens. No matter where you put tobacco -mouth, lungs, bladder, nose, ass, wherever-it causes cancer. The article’s claim that nicotine causes lung cancer but nicotine gum is safe is pretty ridiculous.

Source: I’m a chemist. Part of my schooling was making mundane results appear as sensational as possible.

I wouldn’t want to shut down the simulation, but it would depend on the energy expenditure. A hospital could theoretically save more people if they allocated fifty million dollars per patient. A person’s right to life is contingent on the cost to maintain it.

…I don’t think I’ve ever met a man in real life that ate a fad diet. They eat hamburger helper and take out.