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Does trying to live healthy make sense considering an imminent bird flu outbreak?
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RE: Does trying to live healthy make sense considering an imminent bird flu outbreak?
@FlatAssembler What you seem to be missing is that you've made several very specific claims that are not supported by consensus science. Claims like a vegan or veggie diet boosts the immune system, and that in turn will prevent COVID-19. Neither of those claims are supported by science. Now I'm positive that you can produce some "study" that says otherwise. We now live in a world rife with "alternative" facts. But there is real science and there is pseudo-science. The latter tries to look and sound like the former, but it relies on short cut methods, grand assumptions and lies. The list of these is gigantic. Sometimes it can be difficult to tell the difference because pseudo-scientists have gotten very savvy, but there are some specific signs that raise a red flag. If you truly want to become better educated, you need to learn to tell the difference. You claim to be educated in logic, well here is a great opportunity for you to learn and improve your reasoning.

You also made the statement that things that are difficult to imagine are less likely to be true (or something to that effect). That is simply not true and I listed a number of examples of concepts that are not intuitive but have been objectively demonstrated to be true. The ability of anyone, yourself in particular, to be able to imagine (I think you actually mean understand) a concept has literally nothing to do with its basis in fact. What you are missing is that complex or extremely difficult concepts require equally complex and compelling evidence to justify accepting them as fact whereas simpler concepts require simpler evidence.

These are just some of the reasons that I concluded that your grasp on reason is tenuous at best.
Why is it so?
~Julius Sumner Miller
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RE: Does trying to live healthy make sense considering an imminent bird flu outbreak? - by Spongebob - August 18, 2021 at 9:48 am

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