Personal theories that may or may not be based on facts

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Anonymous wrote:I think women who eat a lot of peanut butter when pregnant end up with kids who have peanut allergies

I think the opposite.

I think the epidemic of nuts allergy in kids is a result of all of the plant-based oils that we have come to use in great quantities (canola, corn, soy, peanuts, safflower, sunflower, grapeseed). They are literally in every kind of processed food, and on top of that we use it a lot as a 'neutral oil' in cooking.

Decades ago big agriculture tested increasing protein in corn or some basic grain and added peanut components to it. It was experiemental but escaped. I always wondered if being over loaded with it back then affected things now. One of the latest studies I read said it is because we are too clean. Our bodies aren't busy fighting off scurvy or other diseases so it is attacking less threatening things.

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Anonymous wrote:ADHD in adults is just an excuse for not even trying to manage your life. The only adults who get away with it are surrounded by people who enable them.

And adding speed to the equation does not help.

+2

Your ignorance is astounding. Tell me you are not a teacher. Tell me you are not the parent of a child with disabilities.

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My theory is that attacks on abortion rights are a response to the browning of American. More white babies are needed, so access to abortion goes away to increase that demographic.

????????????????????

Racism and eugenics were a huge part of the basis for abortion laws in the 19th century.

https://nursingclio.org/2019/07/02/the-eugenicists-on-abortion/

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Anonymous wrote:ADHD in adults is just an excuse for not even trying to manage your life. The only adults who get away with it are surrounded by people who enable them.

And adding speed to the equation does not help.

I wish this were true. I avoided ADHD meds until my 40s, despite realizing that I needed them in my 20s. Since starting they have been life changing. The days I forget them I truly have trouble concentrating. I do believe some people use it as an excuse, and I see a lot of that here with husbands who don't engage with their families ("maybe they have adhd"????)

I tried so hard to be organized and not be forgetful, and it wasn't a choice for me.

Why do you need to concentrate?

Are you being sarcastic? I have a job. It requires me to read things I don't care about. It requires me to keep files organized and keep track of things. I developed systems and habits to help me for most of my life, but I was always a little behind, a lot flustered. The medications help my brain focus and remember. I look back to how much my brain jumped from thought to thought before the meds, it was mentally exhausting.

Do you ever think you just picked the wrong job

Dp. Are you serious that you think people don't need to be able to concentrate. Also you clearly know nothing about ADHD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have more learning disabilities, ADD, and mental illness in the United States than exists in other countries because the people who couldn't hack it in their countries of origin immigrated to the United States, whereas the high-functioning people stayed there.

We don't have more. The other countries pretend it doesn't exist.

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Anonymous wrote:Our reliance upon plastics has led to the rise in allergies and cancers.

and the particles are in our blood. Plastic clothing - ie almost all clothing manufactured now - is one of the largest pollutants. Microscopic particles of plastic from the clothing are in our water supplies. It's everywhere. We've known forever that breathing burning plastic is incredibly toxic but we're taking it in in so many different ways now.

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Anonymous wrote:We have more learning disabilities, ADD, and mental illness in the United States than exists in other countries because the people who couldn't hack it in their countries of origin immigrated to the United States, whereas the high-functioning people stayed there.

We don't have more. The other countries pretend it doesn't exist.

Uh huh.

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Anonymous wrote:Children who are encouraged to use language like like "trauma" and "harm" to describe normal hardships and difficult but manageable setbacks end up becoming college students who lack resilience and intellectual rigor.

I was with you until the intellectual rigor part. I know plenty of bright, curious, high performing students who think and talk too much about their “traumas” (things the rest of us write off as something that just sucked for awhile.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m like the anti-vaxxer of sun screen. I can’t wrap my head around the fact that wearing SPF daily is the answer to preventing aging and skin cancer. Is smearing chemicals on our face really healthier for us than natural sunlight? All the research seems to say yes, but I just can’t get on board with this and kind of thing sunscreen is a scam. I also think sunscreen is destroying our reefs.

I often forget to wear sunscreen or apply it to my children. None of us burn.
We all need lots Vitamin D to function well.
And yes, it is chemicals that are not great for you and terrible for the environment.

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Anonymous wrote:I think ADHD is on the rise because ADHD people are much more fun, interesting, and intelligent in non traditional ways therefore more people fall in love with them/want to have sex with them.

I don’t think ADHD is a disability and if our lives didn’t involve so much sitting and reading they would be top of the food chain. Actually I think due to hyper focus most programmers and engineers are ADHD.

+1.

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Anonymous wrote:On the topic of religion, my theory is God created the universe a few thousand years ago but he made it appear billions of years old right off the bat. Therefore evolution is correct and so is religion. Not my actual belief but why doesn’t anyone make this argument.

It was made in the 1800s and continues to be made by some creationists

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My friend has never been able to tolerate tomatoes and says she feels sick from GMO foods. Her theory is that a lot of the GMO genes are from the tomato genome. I know that gene splicing is now used but I wonder if she has a point.

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My theory is that tiny aberrations in gravity are at fault when I drop things. In my family we call them gravity wells. The float b a boom, toast is on the floor butter side down.

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Anonymous wrote:Children who are encouraged to use language like like "trauma" and "harm" to describe normal hardships and difficult but manageable setbacks end up becoming college students who lack resilience and intellectual rigor.

I was with you until the intellectual rigor part. I know plenty of bright, curious, high performing students who think and talk too much about their “traumas” (things the rest of us write off as something that just sucked for awhile.)

Too many of these otherwise bright students are refusing to listen to conservative views or read literature that might invoke "trauma" that they are not fulfilling their intellectual capabilities. See, for example, the students at Stanford Law.

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