I totally agree. It's even weirder when it's taken into consideration that this guy also wrote Blackwater (which I also enjoyed). But being from Europe/Sweden I found both books definately worth reading as we don't get much information about these things unless specifically searching for these topics. Especially not ten years ago.

But that’s the thing, there’s already been some good reporting on those scandals. Pretending that JSOC are as shadowy as they present them in this doc is really disingenuous.

I turned it off at the same point the other guy mentioned.

Technically, something external could affect the DNA of children, but it wouldn't typically result in a foundational change in their neural cognition—rather it would manifest in it's offspring.

Dude. Perhaps you’re different but know that your being different is a great thing for all of us. Your differences mean we’re more likely to survive as a species and prosper. But it’s a heavy burden to bear…thanks for being who you are - I’m glad you’re here.

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There can be a dialogue about it. That's the point of saying it "may be linked". As in there's suspicion or reason to believe there could be a possible link, and we should look into it more to see if there really is a link. That's how science works. We think up a hypothesis, find evidence, and conclude the experiment.

Reminder: Any time we’re bombing a country, civilians die. It’s inevitable. Bombing the Pakistani Taliban or Al-Shabab or any other group also means some civilians will die at our hands, so it had better be worth it.

Edit: I don’t know why I get downvoted for saying that bombing kills civilians.

> Not sure why you’re being downvoted

Probably because it's yet another person overconfidently spreading misinformation. There's a wiki link in my profile with info. See the "intro" page.

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It can be pretty annoying and harmful for people to confidently spread misinformation.

Possibly we need even more of "debunking with a citation and insult" so people will stop overconfidently spreading misinformation.

I can only speak from personal experience but growing up partially in a hospital, my doctors took an approach that today might seem irrational and might even result in malpractice. They told my parents to let me play in dirt, drink muddy water even, take part in activities that might cause an asthma attack, don’t fret over Cloroxing every surface. I haven’t had a severe asthma attack in 12ish years and no longer take steroids for allergy control. I’ve never met a person with asthma as severe as mine but I’ve met plenty who still have to keep an inhaler on hand.

I am serious. Variety is but a slice of the nutritional pie. Eating wheat 2000 years ago was vastly different in nutritional value than the wheat we consume today.

I agree with you that there is more variety. The issue I’m trying to point out is even if you are comparing “apples to apples” an ancient apple had a different nutritional value than a modern apple.

My apologies if my difficulty understanding your narrow point caused you strife today. Take care

There is nothing misleading about the title or the documentary. There have been numerous studies showing the gut microbiome to be causative. ASU did an FMT study and the patients improved significantly.

Your comment is far more misleading.

A lot of autistic people cannot speak, need aac or other help communicating, need help with nutrition as they will not eat, have self injurious behaviors. Everyone only seems to think about the “good kind of autism” in these comments.

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All vegetables and fruit went from hundred or tens of species to a few dozen to a fistfull.

The modern man has pretty much always been suffering of non varied food and tooth decay?

Prior to being sedentary we ate hundreds of types of vegetables.

Male, Mad and Muddleheaded: The portrayal of academics in children’s books is shockingly narrow.

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2014/02/14/academics-in-childrens-picture-books/

The counter argument is that they seem to have always been a part of human culture, long before chemicals were commonplace and plastics invented. But no one had the knowledge to identify what was happening.

I am against micro plastics and industrial chemical waste, but I don’t feel convinced they cause everything that is off the path termed “normal”.

For instance, the criteria for women to be diagnosed has been expanded recently, so now more women CAN be diagnosed as the previous criteria were male behavior centric, and research has shown separate patterns. So that is one way diagnoses would go up without environmental factors.

I guess I would hope to urge people to spend more time accepting and understanding the differences rather than try to find a root cause and terminate that root cause. I quite like my ADHD brain. I don’t think I was poisoned to become like this. I quite dislike common culture, and see it as a far larger problem than my symptoms.

Oh, I hate that. So much. I personally feel repulsed by power, hierarchies and the power structures they rely on, but the typical track is to find hierarchies and rise on them. Chase money, get a big house, all that.

The fact that the priorities I have and way I spend my free time is often judged as lazy or farting around aimlessly when the traditional culture is to sit down and watch a 4 to 6 hour televised sporting event. I spend that time painting or constructing ludo narrative embracing rules systems for table top RPGs or designing adventures for them. I have a thing afterwards that is mine and will always be.

And when I play a great video game for hours, I am challenging myself and often enjoying a profound story. People just don’t “get it” so I must be wrong and lazy. Hate it, hate it, hate it.

I don't know anything about JSOC, haven't read anything about them and stuff, I just have to say that General McRaven is one of the most villainous names/titles I've ever heard.

sigh The way you’re handling this isn’t giving me a lot of faith in it.

I had hoped there could be a dialogue about how complex the issue is but I guess not. This doesn’t feel like the way we grow or seek the truth.

I see you over there, pushing propaganda and fomenting division. Time to leave mom’s basement and find meaning in your life.

Lol as if people with autism can't form close relationships

Back in the day your whole future was pretty planned ahead for you, by your family. There was a ton of routine and the social hierarchy was a lot easier to read, ie, the Royalty was on top and the handicapped peasants at the bottom. Even in our parents and grandparents time, a lot was set in stone for your future. Farmer's son? Raised to take over the farm. It was a lot easier to blend in, and even if you stood out, you would just be the odd weirdo that wouldn't hurt a fly