Shadow the Hedgehog (2005) was a great game.
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Sunscreen causes skin cancer.
I know it's probably not true, and I wear sunscreen when I need to, but it just feels wrong slathering all those chemicals on my skin.
Probably does since the sunscreen makers have been lying for years about how much protection their product actually offers. People slathered with 30 or 50 when it was really only 5 or 10.
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All men are equal
The firmness of my opinions is proportional to how much they have been tested.
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The universe is deterministic. Quantum Mechanics doesn't really disagree with this, it's just not as popular an interpretation as the other ones. Even if deterministic QM interpretations eventually end up being ruled out rigorously, maybe we could someday "poke through" to the underlying substrate, like a video game character figuring out the seed for the RNG that determines their universe.
Strong agree. What requires a larger logical leap: that everything is random and quantum states can propagate instantaneously across any distance regardless of the speed of light and without any theoretical mechanism beyond math, or that time is an illusion and the universe has hidden non-local variables?
No idea how particle physicists can sleep at night just accepting the Copenhagen Hypothesis because the math works and it says not to worry about how.
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Santa Claus is real, and the reason why most of you don't believe in him anymore is because you were naughty kids.
The only reason I still believe in him is because I heard the sleigh bells. I was a naughty child, too.
Climate change denial is a psy-op by reptilians who want to make the world warmer because they're cold blooded. Anti-vax influencers are there to cull the xenophobes before the reptilians come out of the egg.
Okay maybe I really want to believe there are cool reptiles who are kinda dumb but ultimately want to be our friends because otherwise we're making ourselves stupider and deader and we don't even get to meet scaley twinks.
Döner macht schöner.
I'm no medicinologist but, anecdotally, I am convinced that anti biotics help recover from the flu much much faster, and can also help prevent complications.
My home country was pretty lax on drug enforcement, and doctors would prescribe antibiotics if your fever hadn't broken in ~3 days (or sooner if you nagged them enough). Getting started on anti biotics would lead to recovery in a day or two at most.
The govt. bodies are getting stricter now, and it's harder to get antibiotics. Pretty much everyone around me has longer and longer recovery times. In just the last two years, 3 people I know (granted, they're 60-70 year olds) have had to be hospitalized (2 pneumonia, 1 I don't remember) after their condition deteriorated.
I know that's it's widely accepted that antibiotics don't help fight the flu, but it's my pulled-it-out-of-my-ass hypothesis that it does help ward off all the other crap allowing the immune system to fight the viruses more effectively leading to faster recovery.
Also, in my home country we used to get paracetamol/acetaminophen injections when the fever spiked too much. But I'm currently in Canada and the recommended "just eat soup and hydrate" is BS. We're just left to fend for ourselves with no option minimize harm /discomfort/symptoms unless you're on deaths door. I'm guessing that most of the rest of the developed world is like this too?
Sincerely, Suffering from flu
Even if that worked, the problem is that we're already overusing antibiotics and breeding all kind of multiresistant bacteria. We have to use them sparingly or we'll run out of usable antibiotics in the near future.
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