You know, you can still find articles that refer to the “heritable” nature of mental illnesses like schiz

The absolutely STOOOPID notion that something common like Schiz was genetic was repeated so many times in the press that most of the public thinks it’s actually true. That one drives me nuts. Yeah sure there are probably susceptability genes but those exist for everything. Big deal. It’s like looking for the genes responsible for different modes of Calcium absorption in an effort to explain why people get broken bones. idiots. It’s no big deal to be wrong, I’m probably wrong all the time. But it’s another thing entirely to be a geneticist and completely unaware of the theory of natural selection.

My dad told me that parents used to be terrifed of Polio. In my generation (I was a teen in the 80s) it wasn’t even something we talked about. It was like black and white history book stuff. 😎 What a blessing.
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As for STDs, Herpes causes Cerebral Palsy. That right there should scare people to death. Odds are good that STDs are behind a lot of illness in children, maybe even things like Autism. Viral infections (especially Herpes) can cause high blood pressure during pregnancy. There is no telling how that might alter the physical and mental development of some children. When this stuff gets wiped out (and it will) there is no telling how much healthier we will be. It’s going to be a different world.
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As for bad and OVERplentiful high calorie food… eeeeee…. all you have to do is look around at the expanding waistlines of Americans. Who knows what else it might be doing to us. It’s certainly not natural to our species. Let me just brag for a moment that my wife and I are in our late 30s. We both weigh within 5 pounds or so of what we weighed in our early 20s. Thats a lot of exercise and salad… 😎

That one totally slipped by me. I guess I don’t do a lot of reading on food born illness, hehe. Maybe I should since Salmonella might actually affect me someday unlike most of the things I read about.

It’s been known for several decades that turtles carried salmonella. They even quit selling pet turtles in the USA in the 70s I think because of the risk to children.

100% absolutely. I’ll keep any SSA/Cochran stuff in the other thread.