Extra Innings - More Lack Of Beer

...and more mercury in your vaccines.

http://www.espn.com/mlb/columns/story?columnist=stark_jayson&id=1540989

https://www.fda.gov/biologicsbloodvaccines/safetyavailability/vaccinesafety/ucm096228

 

Sorry, Alanna. It really doesn’t work that way.  You see, for a looong time now MLB has discontinued serving beer before the game is over. The problem, as explained in ESPN’s article, is that the tailgating mentality at sporting events has some people get all amped up outside the park prior to the game.  Just like one of your famous kindred who by all appearances via certain social media posts got a DUI and had to do community service, which was some very, very weird and insincere sounding commentary.  But that’s a story for another day.  And...look at that tidbit in the article.  California State Law doesn’t even allow beer sales at all during the game.

Not a particularly egregious display of lack of critical thinking.  I have attended many a baseball game and know of this first hand.  It is understandable to not be aware of this at the time of your posting.  I suppose that the beer sales might refer to someone with designated driver status could be forced to leave the comforts of homey town and go on a beer run to complete this marathon game’s need for sustenance.

The problem lies in the way I know these people think, or rather don’t think.  And a quick trip to Facebook finds a more dangerous display of crank magnetism.  Operating under the auspices of “I agree with you in principal today, therefore you are always right, like all the shit storm that is displayed on social media I’m an expert on everything, so here’s what you don’t know about mercury in vaccines”:

A manager being beaten up by liquored up fans is just one person.  But once you tread upon the realm of science with misinformation about something that can affect other people, that’s a problem.  It’s ok for a couple of people to embrace lack of vaccination as a lifestyle choice, but after the PROVEN science of its benefits gets muddied, other children may come in harm’s way.

From the FDA article, for the not mathematically inclined, all you need to know is you can benefit your child more in regards to mercury poisoning by simply not feeding them a couple of tuna fish sandwiches over their entire life span.  For the mathites,

Let’s not even bother with anything beyond how 4 ounces of tuna has about 40 micrograms while the Thimerosal shot has 25.  The math gets fuzzy when dealing with the compounds, bonds and how the body handles the material.  It’s how much ELEMENTAL mercury, not the type is involved.  The problem, is that despite the bold and true warning ALL FORMS OF MERCURY ARE TOXIC TO HUMANS this is comparing apples to oranges.  There’s a boat load of evidence showing that ethyl mercury from vaccines and methyl mercury from fish are two entirely different beasts.  Or fruits.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/briankoberlein/2016/09/20/vaccines-meteors-and-why-details-matter/amp/

Love that antifreeze in beer analogy.  It’s EXACTLY the same thing.  The very reason fish mercury is vastly more dangerous is BECAUSE it accumulates.  Small fish get mercury.  Big fish eats small fish.  Bigger yet fish eat big fish.  Human eats big fish that has a bunch of mercury built up that doesn’t get broken down.

Notice that Alanna doesn’t offer any gematria.  It’s a post about, “I know my weird ideas fit in here because the government says it’s ok, the government is bad.  I agree with you today.”  As an alternative to accepting the actual and truthful FDA opinion, a truly open minded person can also see the company a crank keeps and get a good idea that what’s said is invalid.  Especially on social media where people forward the dumbest things without critically thinking what might be wrong.  The weird ideas just tend to be more entertaining, for believers and critics alike.  That’s why Sir Sic is one of my favorites for finding new video material with what he calls, “taking the piss out of them” narratives.

And by the way, NaturalNews is famous for spreading bad information.  So even with half truthful math data someone with an open mind should instantly assume guilty until proven innocent.

This is the way pseudoscience perpetuates.  Grasping at whatever straws are available and more often than not deliberately altering the story to distort the truth, usually for financial reasons - whether it’s to sell non-plastic rice, fail at making sports predictions, get donations for your services to give advice on the health benefits of cutting yourself (Sir Sic’s latest video), laser enhanced supplements or whatever.

And this is why gematria is a garbage bin for all weird ideas because you can take any numbers and shoehorn in any topic you want since the gullible really adore a true lack of evidence and it’s cool to be wrong.

I’m going to have to vaccinate my brain with ethyl alcohol after a few more stories of posting without critical thinking.  At least then I have a decent chance of appreciating a distorted perspective on reality.