Avoiding the Ranks of the Insane

By Rich Kozlovich 

I was an exterminator for 40 years, and for 30 of those years I owned my own company and was heavily involved with my industry's affairs starting at the local level, then state, and even at the national level, and I was willing to challenge the conventional wisdom in favor of tradition wisdom against all comers. Heterodoxy isn't for the faint of heart, and I've always admired those people who had he courage to be the "rocks in the current", and in my own small way I wanted to recognize and honor them by creating, The John Boyd Legion of Honor.

Much of what you're going to see here I published in 2012, but I decided it was important to edit and republish this piece because there are some foundational issues that were addressed then that are even more applicable today. My friend Mike Shaw was a junk science warrior, but he's now retired, as a result so many of the links to his articles that appeared in Health News Digest no longer work.  However, those published in Mike's Ecologic, and those he allowed me to publish for many years, along with his substack site called, Mike's Point of View, can still can be tracked here in P&D. 

Mike published this article,  Caffeine: Is there really A Welcome Lift In Every Cup"?, in 2012, but the link no longer works, so you will just have to take my word what appears below is what was in that article.  Or not if it pleases you.   He starts by saying:

Readers of a certain age might recognize this tag line from a 1950s era promotional campaign, ran on behalf of the Pan-American Coffee Bureau. Back then, the stimulant effect of caffeine was regularly touted, along with an equal number of commercials in which taste was the most important thing. (Mountain grown...the richest kind!)

It should hardly come as a surprise that caffeine is by far the most widely consumed psychoactive drug in the world. In his 2005 article in New Scientist, science fiction/fact writer and Renaissance man Richard A. Lovett notes that "In North America, around 90 per cent of adults report using caffeine every day." The major dietary sources of this compound are coffee, chocolate, and cola drinks.

I never really thought about caffeine as a ‘psychoactive’ drug, but that is how it has to be defined. This lays foundation for two points; toxicity and reaction!   All issues related to the potential impact of all chemicals. Regarding studies showing the impact of caffeine on the body he states:

Perhaps the best known scare study came out in 1980, and was done by FDA scientist Thomas Collins (no relation to the cocktail). Collins said to be equivalent to 200 cups of coffee in one gulp. Not surprisingly, a large number of birth defects appeared in their offspring. However, when Collins redid the study in 1983, he simply added the caffeine to the rats' drinking water, and the dose was spread out through the day. This time, the birth defects returned to whatever the normal level is for lab rats.

When the dust settled, the consensus became nothing more than common sense: Caffeine taken in moderation, via conventional dosing methods, poses no danger to most people. This viewpoint is echoed by respected holistic physician Wayne R. Bonlie, MD of Timonium, Maryland. But then, folks don't always have common sense.

Did you get that? Being “force-fed pregnant rats ridiculously high doses of caffeine” causes an adverse physiological reaction but when exposed to normal doses the impact is meaningless. That is basic science. The dose makes the poison, yet when it comes to pesticides these types of studies are touted as definitive proof that pesticides cause _____ (fill in the blank).   They're not!  The "linear no threshold level" hypothesis is one of the greatest scientific frauds of all time.  

The reality is that we need to have society become better scientists, i.e., citizen scientists,  because we can’t trust those who have a battery of letters behind their names. Scientific integrity has been made an oxymoron by government grant money, and global warming claims has exposed them for what they are.

I have stated over and over again that if the only government grant money available to them was to prove that there was no such thing as "manmade" global warming, they would do an about face so fast that you would think they were a color guard in a military parade. The same is true of chemicals and carcinogenicity, ADHD, autism, etc.  Well… you get the picture.

It's in the day to day world is where reality exists, not what goes on in the lab, and especially not the computer modeling that's being touted as science, when in reality it's a corruption of science.  

The universe works on certain principles such as threshold effect.  When the molecular load of anything is too small cells will simply not react to it.  The dose makes the poison.  The greenies would have you believe otherwise and they have plenty of ‘scientists’ on their side who are so corrupt that they will say anything in order to attain grant money and recognition for the things they spout, which brings them outside financial rewards by way of speaking fees. This, in spite of the fact that if leftism was a corporation, they'd almost have a monopoly on being wrong!  From Malthus on population, to Rachel Carson on DDT, and to James Hansen on global warming. So why do we listen to these people? 

As we're watching the 2024 election playing out we're seeing what I call

As I see it American's have four options:

1. Ignorance, which is fixable.  Being ignorant means you just don't know.  You can choose to learn and correct that. 
2. Stupidity, which is ignorance coupled with complacency, and stupid can't be fixed.  
3. Insanity which is unavoidable if you accept leftist conclusions since nothing leftists have ever promoted has been successful, except their uncanny ability to deliver tyrannical  dystopia. 
   
4. Or, clear rational thinking which means accepting the reality that leftism is irrational and misanthropic, morally defective.

When viewing all things leftists are saying and promoting, you must start out with the foundational premise... they're lying.  Then do the research and discover.... they really are lying!  Lies of commission, and especially lies of omission.  If you edited out all the lies, logical fallacies, hyperbole, and projections that emerge from the leftist fever swamps what would you get?  Blessed silence, and what would be left behind would be truth.

 As Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (121 – 180 C.E.) once noted; "The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."