Trust Nobody, Trust Everybody

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It’s a quote from Men In Black, but I think it’s appropriate here …

“1000 years ago everyone knew the earth was the center of the universe. 500 years ago everyone knew the earth was flat, and 15 minutes ago you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what we’ll know tomorrow.”

Things are true right up until the moment that they’re not. Same thing goes for things like slavery or women’s rights. These were all acceptable by the populous at large right up until they weren’t, and today, they’re unthinkable.

Chris are you losing your mind? I hope your being sarcastic by saying cigarettes are good for. Is it just a coincidence that people who smoke cigarettes get cancer?

Fluoride is next. Industrial poison dressed up as the tooth fairy.

Of course, that doesn’t mean that everything is false until proven true, or that everything is true until proven false.

Keep an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.

Accept a claim, then demand proof. “OK, cigarettes don’t have any harmful effects. Back it up.” “OK, so that was a UFO. Where’s the physical evidence?” “OK, so is/causes/generates . Show your work.” Accept the proof unless you have evidence which either directly refutes the claim, or evidence which refutes an underlying principle of the claim.

You don’t have to believe something is true or false to ask for evidence of either.

“Everybody knows that cigarettes are safe!” I hope children are not believing that statement. It is interesting to consider the fact that even if all the nicotine, tars, and other fillers were removed from cigarettes, the carbon that is left (since tobacco leaves are a plant) is still sufficient to destroy the lungs! There are other models to support this fact that are just as persuading.

I smoked a pack a day for 2 years before going “cold turkey” after seeing a picture of a tar-filled, cancer-infected lung. I haven’t smoked in 7 years, and that ad made me want to light up (I didn’t).

My dad grew up on those same ads, and has smoked off and on for the last 30 years. Several years ago, he tried a cigar for the first time, and has since given up cigarettes in favor of cigars.

For people who decide to quite smoking, the easiest part of the process is getting past the niccotine addiction, as it only takes a few days for the body to cleanse itself of niccotine. It’s getting used to being an ex-smoker that’s the most difficult, and is what drives most ex-smokers back to the habit. You wind up with so much more time on your hands, that was spent smoking, that you don’t know what to do with yourself when you quit.

i know i’m not brilliant but thank god i’m more sense than cjh6793!

RVL,
Physical proof isn’t always required to make something true, either. “Religious” people have died, done great works, and committed atrocities, in the name of something unprovable, on nothing more than faith. There is no evidence of life after death. There is no evidence of heaven, hell, Valhalla, Purgatory, or several other realms, but there are people who are nevertheless steadfastly convinced that they exist.

[...] …and if you want to debate the truthiness of these claims, might I remind you that truth is relative? [...]

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