phonypc

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by phonypc 5y ago
Nah. He signal boosts all the worst conspiracies of the pandemic; "Pfizermectin", abuse of VAERS data, the Pfizer "whistle blower", you name it. While trying to maintain the appearance of showing both sides neutrally and
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by phonypc 5y ago
He's also been credulously spreading nonsense about ivermectin and vaccine adverse events. Not someone worth listening to. FWIW, he's also not a medical doctor. Not that he explicitly claims to be, but presenting medical informati
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by phonypc 5y ago
It does actually, but that wasn't really my point in referring to it. More that the GP post misrepresenting the study isn't justified by other evidence of a lack of rigour in the field.
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by phonypc 5y ago
Freezing doesn't kill bacteria. Reliably, anyway.
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by phonypc 5y ago
No, adding concentrated juice definitely violates "no added sugar" labelling standards, at least as far as the FDA and Health Canada are concerned for sure. I assume in Europe as well. Some juices are just naturally very high in s
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by phonypc 5y ago
There's evidence that wine judging is less objective than most people involved in it seem to believe. I'm not sure that justifies calling it nonsense, or misrepresenting a study as showing that experienced people can't even d
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by phonypc 5y ago
Might want to refresh your reading on this. AFAIK this is reference to one (unpublished) study where undergrad wine science students tended to choose from a list of descriptive terms usually associated with red wine to refer to dyed whi
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by phonypc 5y ago
The sound is expanding gas escaping their shell. They don't have lungs or vocal cords.
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by phonypc 5y ago
If you can't safely split a lobster with your kitchen knife, you probably shouldn't be cutting carrots either. It's not hard.
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by phonypc 5y ago
That stress / lactic acid / meat quality relationship only really applies to meat that's going to be aged, and it's as much about preventing microbial spoilage as anything. There's no time for it to be a factor for
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by phonypc 5y ago
The wasp is completely digested. You're no more eating a wasp when eating a fig, than you are eating grass when eating beef.
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by phonypc 5y ago
If you want to expand the category "bugs" to include all arthropods, then "crabs and lobsters are basically bugs" is kinda circular/superfluous. My comparison at that point would become "humans and zebras are b
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by phonypc 5y ago
> Crabs and lobsters are basically bugs Not really. You might as well say humans are basically zebras.
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by phonypc 5y ago
Nearly everyone has recent ancestors that lived on a farm and loved playing with the animals. Once they were old enough to connect the dots and later saw the butchering process, they remained omnivores for the rest of their lives.
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by phonypc 5y ago
Palm oil isn't really in the same category as the vegetable oils that have had concern raised about them recently. It's not from a seed, so doesn't need a highly involved process to get meaningful amounts of it. Cold pressed
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by phonypc 5y ago
There's some amount of palmitic acid in pretty much every dietary fat. Animal sources tend to be higher than seed oils, but e.g. olive oil, that many people like to tout as the healthiest, is something like 10-20% palmitic acid. It&#x2
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by phonypc 5y ago
If foxes are amoral agents, why is it immoral to kill them?
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by phonypc 5y ago
That's walking pace though. Humans probably compare even less favourably to other animals if you open it up to the ability to walk marathon distance.
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by phonypc 5y ago
Presumably most people doing it have losing weight as a goal, not maintaining? Anyway, fat heavy foods make cramming calories pretty easy. You can hide a lot of butter in mashed potatoes or a pasta sauce.
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by phonypc 5y ago
FWIW, this isn't atypical. IF in a scientific study pretty much always means some form of 24h+ fast. The more common practice of eating in a time window is usually "time-restricted eating/feeding."
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by phonypc 5y ago
IME, most people find it rather easy to take in a days worth of calories in a single sitting, with the right (wrong?) kinds of food. Like... a largish portion of very cheesy mac 'n' cheese will do it.
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by phonypc 5y ago
Odd title. Study doesn't mention any anti-inflammatory response. The change in hsCRP in Table 3 actually seems to show a (non-significant) pro-inflammatory measure.
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by phonypc 5y ago
The low smoke point makes it perhaps impractical to cook with at high temperature if you don't have good ventilation. But the "good properties" (antioxidants) mean it's probably the best high temperature veg oil, oxida
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by phonypc 5y ago
Might want to refresh your understanding here. You've confused oils, amino acids, fatty acids and essential acids of each kind. The only essential fatty acids are linoleic and alpha-linolenic. It's virtually impossible to be defic
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by phonypc 5y ago
Palmitic acid is a major component of pretty much all fat containing food.
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by phonypc 5y ago
I guess we just have different reads on history. I don't think it's a mistake to view hard times as the default for most of history in most places. They were of course not constant and there are accounts of exceptionally hard t
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by phonypc 5y ago
Hence the "predators and inclement weather". You can't imagine experiencing "burnout" with regards to incessant cold and rain preventing your tribe from effectively hunting/foraging? Or a pack of starving wolve
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You don't actually have to be in conditions of siege or famine for them to be stressful. They merely have to be a threat. And what would a common person (i.e. peasant) have been able to do about that threat? If your village is raided a
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by phonypc 5y ago
Like x000 years ago when war and famine were always looming threats? Or further back when predators and inclement weather were? I can't imagine life in the distant past being less stressful.
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by phonypc 5y ago
I don't understand. Yes, many of the vaccine effectiveness studies are limited by the window of time they use. That's a separate issue from vaccines being redundant for previously infected people. Studies show that previously infe

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