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Backseat Driver

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4. Our environment is sooooo toxic - imagine the long-term
Sun Aug 22, 2021, 10:35 AM
Aug 2021

effects even before Co-Vid long-haul cases reducing IQ's and cognitive functions. Even questionable studies, i.e., for fluoride in water; glyphosate herbicides leading to GMOs and pesticides in food, propylene glycol as in Mio water flavorings, leaching chemical in our cookware, absorbable toxins through the skin in cosmetics, measurable antibiotics and chemically synthesized anti-depression medications that only hit on a portion of brain functionality getting through the waste water processing and into other water and living creatures, even personal household learned helplessness and trauma that impacts cognitive brain functioning for mental health that can be transgenerational yet very difficult to "prove." Data is so easily tipped and tainted even before all those random, double-blind, peer-reviewed testing; those peers did not necessarily find truthiness through their educations, either. Of course, science likely knows the best way forward; yet it sometimes leads to upheavals and controversy in our knowledge bases with much to unlearn and question, like what effects variants and mutations of what was once very simply only the cause of non-lethal common colds.

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