Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "Neil Young Was HUGE Science Skeptic Before COVID" video.

  1. In ecology, and especially in food crops, you must strictly follow the Precautionary Principle. A specific GMO is presumed unsafe until proved safe, not vice versa.
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  2.  @Avatar_Brandy  Not at all. Jimmy pointed out that Young does not echo "the science," so called, whenever it doesn't personally suit him, but wants to deprive others of the choice to question "the science," and coerce them to comply, when he considers it in his interest. IOW, no principles.
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  3.  @rosalindr4975  I enjoyed it, but all the studies show it's not safe. They studied low-level smoking in Scandinavia. The custom there is roll your own, organic tobacco, 3 to 5 cigarettes a day (except at parties, when it's more), with no smoking before lunch. That was not so dangerous, but still turned out to be dangerous. They were surprised. A cig or pipe after dinner is a tradition there. People don't want to stop. I get that.
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  4. No, he is anti-GMO. He is pointing out Neil Young's rank hypocrisy. He considers himself worthy to choose what technologies he supports and puts into his body, and to advocate on matters where he has no scientific expertise whatsoever, but also thinks he should police other people's choice of interview guest, even where that guest is heavily credentialed. Malone and McCullough may be wrong, but those who talk to them should not be bullied to shut them out of the public arena. Jimmy is just demonstrating the old adage, "what goes around comes around." An article just attacked Young for laying the "anti-vaxx" groundwork, by opposing GMOs! You can't make this up.
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  5. In ecology, and especially in food crops, you must strictly follow the Precautionary Principle. A specific GMO is presumed unsafe until proved safe, not vice versa. Even the WHO agrees, despite Bill Gates money. The golden rice story is false. Those kids need real vitamins. Golden rice didn't help for major vitamin deficiencies.
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  6. You have to pay a premium for non-GMO verified. Just like rich people get monoclonal antibodies.
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  7. The Surgeon General announced that they caused cancer in the late 1950s. During the war, soldiers smoked as a mild mood boost. In war, lots of troops still do. There is no safe smoking but it's not the 18 months of smoking that kills, it's the ten plus pack years. I quit smoking for good January 1, 1991. I can't even get a baseline lung scan based on my history of smoking. Even if I exaggerate it, my risk is too low. Wish I could.
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  8.  @grantmcphee5149  It never supported this.
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  9.  @grantmcphee5149  Which is why all the earliest tests consistently showed English are smarter than RUSSIANS! 🤣
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  10.  @grantmcphee5149  No, I'm talking about the fact that it pretty well ended with the defeat of Operation Barbarossa! On a more serious note, Alfred Binet invented the first IQ test for one purpose only, to identify children who might have trouble with the academic program of modern universal education, and to find ways to help them succeed in school. It was never intended for any other purpose, least of all to rank groups by their intelligence. When I was in school there, aptitude testing of any kind for university admission, or advancement in school at any stage, was illegal. Only achievement testing counted, because it was objective. If you think they were touchy-feely, well, at the time, the very highest grade was "very good," and was rarely given. Your prof is excellent, or should be. Einstein and Plato were outstanding. Failing the baccalaureate on the first try was common. A perfect score on the philosophy essay, traditionally the first test, made national news, and the student would be interviewed everywhere. Took an American test there, the old three-part GRE, no prep class, horrible testing conditions, a lousy day for me, physically unwell, several dumb mistakes -- and got a Triple Nine Society-worthy score. It's the environment, honey. Believe it.
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  11.  @grantmcphee5149  "When we were still trying to figure out . . . " 🤣🤣🤣
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  12.  @davidcanatella4279  Wow, he did that, too? I had no idea. That right wing rocker who kills his own food is more honest.
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