Mercury is good for children and other insanely stupid health lies still pushed by the nutritionally illiterate media
Posted by freedomforall 12 years, 3 months ago to Business
If you want to get truly terrible advice on health, foods and nutrition, just tune into the mainstream media. Across all the three-letter networks, high-circulation newspapers and establishment websites, you'll discover a bizarre cesspool of truly dangerous, outdated and pharma-influenced health advice that's more likely to get you killed than keep you informed.
(1) Insanely stupid health lie #1: Mercury in lobster is bad for you, but mercury in flu shots is good for young children!
(2) Insanely stupid health lie #2: There's no such thing as a food that helps prevent cancer
(3) Insanely stupid health lie #3: Fluoride improves public health
(4) Insanely stupid health lie #4: Nutrition is a waste of money
(5) Insanely stupid health lie #5: Disease outbreaks are caused by a lack of vaccinations
Just to wrap up this collection of eye-opening observations, don't forget all the following lies which were also endlessly repeated by the media (and then proven to be outrageous lies):
• Obamacare would LOWER your health insurance costs and be readily available to everyone! And you could keep your job, too!
• GMOs are perfectly safe to eat in unlimited quantities, and without GMOs, half the world might starve to death.
• Drug companies need to charge monopoly prices only so they can raise enough money to develop cures for humanity. Because they care! And the only reason the FDA enforces a U.S. monopoly on drug prices while seizing importations of prescription drugs from Canadian pharmacies is because the FDA cares, too!
• All the money donated to pink ribbon cancer fundraisers goes to help find cures for cancer. (Total lie. Most of the money goes to fund mobile mammogram trucks that go into low-income neighborhoods to falsely diagnose poor women with cancer so the cancer centers can rack up huge Medicare billings. Ka-ching!)
• The government isn't listening to your phone calls, no way! That's just a crazy "conspiracy theory." And no, your credit card records and bank records aren't being tracked, either... stop being so paranoid!