RE: Does trying to live healthy make sense considering an imminent bird flu outbreak?
August 18, 2021 at 4:10 pm
(August 18, 2021 at 3:20 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: Well, I have heard some scientists claiming that, and I haven't heard any claiming otherwise. Therefore, I conclude that is the scientific consensus.
Maybe you aren't aware of this, but where you get your information matters...a lot. Like most people, you probably get your information from mass market news agencies, who may report real science, but they often do a terrible job. They misrepresent stories, blow it out of proportion, and sometimes report new findings from disreputable people. That's how Andrew Wakefield's antivax agenda became so well known. New agencies rarely do the hard work of evaluating their sources when it comes to science. And there are just as many pseudo science papers out there as real science. You have to read multiple sources and you have to learn how to spot the pseudo from the science. Also, the fact that you said you haven't read any scientific reports that a vegan diet does not improve the immune system tells me you haven't read much about it at all, which means you probably just read an article or two on the Internet. I happen to know for a fact that this is a much studied subject and the results are inconclusive at best. I suspect you are easily convinced and this can be dangerous. You have to get better at that if you don't want to be gullible.
There's a lot of misconception about how our immune systems work and it's largely because of the pseudo scientific claims about certain fruits or vegetables that will "supercharge" the immune system. Those claims are all false. A healthy immune system needs no boosting whatsoever and an unhealthy one can't be fixed by eating kale. So, again, I suggest you do some reading on the subject. Get a good book produced by a reputable medical person, not some kook.
Quote:No, I did not mean understand, I meant imagine. A rock bleeding is hard to imagine, because it obviously goes against what we ordinarily experience.
Is there a language barrier here? How is it difficult to imagine a rock bleeding? Just imagine a rock. Now imagine blood flowing from it. Done. No, you are meaning you find it difficult to either understand or believe some concept. But in either case, what you said is still wrong because whether you believe something or not still has nothing to do with reality.
Why is it so?
~Julius Sumner Miller
~Julius Sumner Miller