Modern medicine

Not many people have come to the realisation that most doctors can only offer to cut, burn or poison. Yes, some cutting and poison can do good, but it's hardly an enlightened system.

This is not an attack on doctors who are working within a system they have been programmed to believe. Nor is it saying "Never go to the doctor", but rather enlighten yourself first.

Trust as a mathematical equation

Trust can be reduced to a mathematical equation. You cannot trust anyone who has anything to gain from you believing them. These are propagandists and can be found everywhere: particularly in the media, the government and the major institutions, public and private.

Those who you MAY be able to trust have nothing to gain from whether you trust them or not. They have nothing invested in the "trust" game. Therefore, they are not trying to manipulate your view. They MAY be trusted, with the accent on MAY. But it doesn't mean they're right.

Now the establishment finally attack Russell Brand

The establishment are so slow going after their critics it makes me think they're on Mogadon*. 

Assange took years to get to, and so did Alex Jones. Trump took years, Rogan took years and now Russell Brand has taken years to finally attack using old information that has no evidence attached to it as far as I'm aware. But they haven't gone after David Icke. Too boring a petsonal history, I support. No easy lies to conjure. 

It doesn't pay to fuck around if you are eventually going to call out the establishment. They'll get you for that. And anyway promiscuity is a stupid, empty, self-degrading practice. Or is it?

Whatever. The establishment can and will still go to hell.

*A popular tranquiliser from the 70's which seems a relevant relic to revive from the past, considering the establishment is controlled by old farts in mansions, at least 50 years behind the times.

Man-made climate change

When we use the term "man-made climate change" we open ourselves to the possibility that the changes we see are being intentionally driven by evil, power mad users of man-made weather technologies. 

This is in opposition to any changes unintentionally or passively caused by normal human activity, which is the definition most people are aware of, whether it be true or not.

Very few seem aware of the former, intentional effects. By design, of course.

Is death the worst thing to happen to us?

In this world supposedly the worst thing that can happen to you is to die. Not to suffer for years on end, but to die. 

In the next world, at least for most people and according to multiple reports the best thing that can happen to you is to die, or be "reborn" into that world. 

If this belief in the glory of the next world became commonplace in this world things would change dramatically and the idea of legal and freely available euthanasia would become a no-brainer.

Problems with the drug approval process

People often talk about "evidence based medicine" but it has many problems. One is the cost of trials to bring a new drug to market. I read somewhere it is in the vicinity of one billion dollars. No-one will spend that amount of money on trialling an unpatentable natural product for FDA approval. 

Another problem is the length of the trials themselves. They tend to be no longer than a few weeks, so we have no idea of the longer-term effects of these substances. 

Another issue is the interaction between the various drugs people are often on. Drugs are not generally tested for this, but rather in isolation. 

Another issue is that new drugs are generally treated on healthy, young volunteers without any major health complaints, whose response to a drug may be quite different to that of a sick, debilitated or old person. 

Finally there is the issue of drug companies, who perform their own tests, cherry picking ones with the best results to present to the FDA for approval.

These are just a small sample of some of the issues with the current drug approval regime.