FancyDarcy wrote: ↑2017-10-25 04:55pmI'd heard that dailymail wasn't very credible sometimes, but I thought that was only for political debates which I never bother with. But still, it must be reporting on something, they can't just be inventing all that stuff, right?
Can you explain why,
precisely, you think they "can't just be inventing all that stuff?" What is your reason for believing that? Exactly what do you think would happen if they did exactly that?
Mercola also says some interesting stuff about the usage of dirty electricity which is made from most modern appliances which use a transformer. The article says that the dirty electricity is probably one of the largest causes of diabetes, cancers and heart diseases.
Exactly how do they think that works, and what is their definition of "dirty?" I have a master's in physics; I know a fair amount about what electricity can and cannot do. Try me.
FancyDarcy wrote: ↑2017-10-25 03:34pm"Hoo boy" indeed. :/
Well I've seen some studies done where a laptop on your laptop does indeed boil off all the sperms although they don't seem to cause any long term damage found yet. However, I've heard that a laptop can also cause the testicles themselves and damage the cells themselves which will cause the tecticles to produce broken, damaged sperms which might lead to either permanent infertility or mutations in offspring.
The only mechanism by which laptops can do that is
heat. Sperm production for human males works best at a few degrees below body temperature, which is why the testes hang outside the body in the first place when that is such an obvious hazard for accidental injuries.
But that's
heat, not radiation; you'd cause the same problem by sitting around with a hot water bottle on your nuts.
As for the laptop, I did specify an older model.. which might be damaged or worn away.. causing radiation to leak out of a previously safe enclosure.
There is no radiation enclosure. Laptops are not designed to confine or shield against radiation, because laptops don't generate radiation that is dangerous enough to shield against. If laptops
were radioactive, shielding against them would require heavy layers of lead foil or something like that- it would be a significant fraction of the weight of a modern laptop. Maybe
most of the weight of the laptop.
Therefore, an older model of laptop will be no more 'radioactive' than a new one, and has no 'enclosure' to protect you from the radiation that does not exist.
Now the person who told me that BT headphones were dangerous and would kill you if you wore them for long lengths of time was generally quite educated and probably intelligent and said it in a very confident tone...
If he can't provide evidence, don't believe him. I can provide evidence that is real and based on a coherent picture of the world that is self-consistent and fits together. I'm betting that he can't. And I'm willing to put his ideas to the test.
and although I don't agree with him in all things, for example the theory that modern day violence is caused by horror movies, which is actually quite a popular and common theory which makes sense in a lot of ways.
A lot of the time,
both a theory
AND its exact opposite will "make sense" if they are explained to you in a confident and well-phrased way. The fact that a theory "makes sense" after someone talks to you about it doesn't prove much, unless you're experienced at spotting logical inconsistencies, and thinking of ways to disprove false claims.
In the context of modern-day violence and horror movies... Violent crime rates were higher forty years ago than they are today. Does he think that was because horror movies were more violent back then? Violent crime rates in Victorian England were
also fairly high, as measured by (for example) comparing modern murder rates to those of the 1800s. Was that violence caused by Victorian horror movies? Are Third World countries with extremely high crime rates suffering so much crime because they watch several times more horror movies than anyone else?
See, the way to go about this isn't "hmm, someone tells me violence is high these days, they must be right, which means there has to be an explanation, which means the first plausible-sounding reason they give me is the explanation."
The way to go about this is to think "Okay, IF there is a difference caused by something, like horror movies causing violence... what would we expect to happen? What would be the consequences?
Did those consequences happen? If not, then horror movies aren't making a difference." For example, if horror movies cause violence, we should expect huge crime waves right after major works of horror are released (there aren't). We should expect crime rates to be steadily rising as horror movies get more horrifying (they aren't). We should expect violent crime to be much less common back when there were no horror movies (but it was as common if not more so). We should expect the countries with the most horrifying horror fiction to be the ones with the worst crime problems (they're not).
Now I remember he said that when using a BT headset, it is usually safe to use, but you should take breaks and only use a BT headset for about 1 or 2 hours each day and no more, otherwise you will boil the brain too much.
He's talking out his ass, and you shouldn't trust him on scientific questions.