Brian Saghy is SagaciousB

I've been tempted to start it, especially being a Pittsburgh resident. That hospital (AGH) is where I had surgery for a traumatic knee injury, and holds a special meaning to me.

Bitten by Alligator, Man Is Killed After Charging at Deputies, Sheriff Says

On today's episode of "Florida man..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

RFK Jr. announces ban on all petroleum-based synthetic food dyes, including red dye No. 40. Here's what health experts have said about them. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Tuesday that the Trump administration will phase out all artificial food dyes made from petroleum.

Ugh, and now revisiting a minor subconscious belief that artificial food dyes can't possibly be *good* for you. Like, at best, they're neutral and at worst, they're a health risk. He must be wrong here in some way, right? Anti-depressive color therapy psyche benefits?
www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/rf...

Thanks for sharing. Didn't have time to read the whole paper, but yes looks like the underlying publications it referenced may have been cherry picked and not from reputable sources.

Do you have any beliefs you've revisited to interrogate more carefully after learning that RFK, Jr. shares those beliefs?

Though I can't say I revisited it long. It is more of a knee-jerk "ok, so this must be bad, right? How am I wrong about this? Kids dietary freedom? Maybe they do need high calories? Is Big-Cola the good guy?"
The deliberating faded quickly. Sometimes even an idiot gets some good ideas.

Yes. That we shouldn't subsidize school meals packed with sugar z including soda.

Cite your evidence, please?
NIH (2024):

"Seventy-two studies assessed the association between fluoride exposure and IQ in children. Nineteen of those studies were considered to be high quality; of these, 18 reported an inverse association between estimated fluoride exposure and IQ in children."

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

Fair point. I think they were mostly mandatory for school attendance? I guess the only way you could truly opt out of many vaccines was if you didn't send your kids to school.

Also read an interesting counterpoint that Calgary tried removing flouride from the water supply, with bad dental results.

Also worth noting, and something I didn't read about until today, apparently there's a correlation between water flouridation and lowered IQ in children. There are some outstanding questions of concentration levels, but still disturbing evidence.

ntp.niehs.nih.gov/whatwestudy/...

Why stop with flouride? Why not supplement our water with Vitamin C, magnesium, calcium, iron, Vitamin D? The thing many Americans don't get enough of. It would be for the greater good!

Again, there's a difference with vaccines - they're opt-in.

You don't need to be well off or have a nice bathroom to brush your teeth. We're talking a material supply of like $4/person/year, which is actually not much more than it costs to floridate water.

The problem here is that there's no opt out, other than buying bottled water. The default is broken.

RFK Jr says plans to tell CDC to stop recommending fluoride in drinking water, AP reports U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy said he plans to tell Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to stop recommending fluoride in drinking water, the Associated Press reported on Monday.

There are a LOT of things I disagree with #RFK Jr on, but this is one change I actually support. One day it hit me that I'm forced to drink an FDA active ingredient, #flouride. Already get plenty in my toothpaste and mouthwash daily, thank you.

www.reuters.com/business/hea...

We need to stop blaming egg prices on federal politicians, and start blaming our practices of chicken battery farming. No animals in those conditions will avoid viral outbreaks. And, when outbreaks do inevitably occur, the supply is hit harder because we literally put all of our eggs in one basket.

French hash tag for when the hard right is stopped from entering positions?

#LePenisblocked

How do you visually demonstrate capacity? Any example visuals?

My first post on BlueSky will be the prediction of my last - for when this platform also gets inevitably soured and I move on to the next social media thing, or become a hermit off the grid:

"Goodbye, blue sky. Goodbye." -Roger Waters, Pink Floyd