Craziest Delusions from the Normieosphere?

Puck

@eugene Every video Analyze and Optimize makes attracts hordes of dimwitted liars for some reason. These are the comments from Everyone used to be thin. The evidence is right there in front of them and all they can do is repeat misremembered talking points they heard on TV in the 80's.

CO3

@eugene Good post! I heard about the Israeli one, but the French one is even more absurd.

Gaston

The 'good fats vs. bad fats' take always makes my eye twitch. They just take whatever whole food that they happen to enjoy eating and claim with no reasoning that "the good fats are in this stuff."

JulofEnoch

@eugene

Good vs Bad- fats, carbs, proteins. This is often just a stated "that is a bad xyz" with no substantive reasoning, as such people are easy to convince out of it but for the moralists amongst us it can be a very rigid framework, one that's totally under the thumb of authority.

"It's fine because it's an organic brand" or "these additives aren't toxic extracts, they're xyz bean/fruit gum, it's natural."

Every time I end up talking about gelatin with someone and another overhears, I get the comment "I just use agar, it's the same thing." Vegan/vegetarian gelatin alternatives are everywhere in major cities.

I encounter a lot of stoners, who are addicts yes, but also suffer from insanely delusional takes that get passed around dispensaries and their clientele. I've had three people argue that dabs(99% THC) are anti-cancer because THC is anti-cancer and it's a lot of THC at once. I remember back in the early 2010s, there was the admission that smoking weed at a young age irreversibly reduces development, nowadays though I see parents let their kids run around while adults are smoking joints around them, don't confront people smoking in parks where kids are playing, etc. Second-hand smoke was a massive deal when I was a kid(especially because I lived in an area where adults routinely smoked with windows up and kids in the car) but that has totally vanished with weed. Even worse when I hear people advocate that kids take CBD to help with anxiety and depression, literally pointing them from the youngest ages into cannabis consumption.

eugene

@JulofEnoch THC is arguably the best answer for normie delusions. People will, in total earnest, prescribe smoking weed to treat depression. Among many other things. CBD is also pretty abusrd considering studies where effects are felt are done by hundreds of times the dose in the average CBD item at a given smoke shop.

BroJonas

Really any comment section on something health and nutrition related makes great rage bait. It’s almost as toxic as internet politics.

JulofEnoch

@eugene

Yes, weed is bad in so many ways, it's hard to quantify. There are limited situations where one can use specific and high quality strains to enjoy a specific experience; however, most of the weed people buy is not being grown for quality of experience, but for smell and sight. In addition, heavy metal contamination in weed is an issue, as well as mycotoxins. The market of growers and dispensaries has also fallen into consolidation and profit-squeezing. It's best to not do it.

Not only will people prescribe smoking weed for depression, doctors will do so.

Buckian

@BroJonas great parallel. I think that they are both approached/viewed by normies in the same way so the comments are equally divisive and misguided.

Pooooop

@eugene Sugar is the devil. People cannot imagine eating sugar is good for you. Especially all the people who tell me they can't have sugar because it triggers acid reflux like they haven't been eating spicy foods for years on end.

GreekDemiGod

@eugene said in Craziest Delusions from the Normieosphere?:

I can't believe that this wikipedia actually exists. I still get a chuckle when I read the "Possible explanations" tabs on why saturated fats still lead to coronary heart disease despite the evidence pointing overwhelmingly in the opposite direction. Associated is this inverse article where serious biologists try to explain how Israelis have a high incidence of coronary heart disease despite their low saturated fat diets. I genuinely believe that these articles were composed by Peatists to slander normie researchers. It's almost comical how it gets meekly surmised as wine intake, healthy lifestyle and "animal fats" by serious researchers, instead of their premise being wrong.

Evidence pointing in the opposite direction? You’re joking?
It’s not good to be contrarian for the sake of being contrarian.
Ever heard of Familial hypercholesterolemia?

eugene

@GreekDemiGod Are you trolling?