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It's backward science. There's a new study that found that people who have the most sex have the lowest all-cause mortality, especially in hypertension patients. Yeah, so generally speaking the people who had the most sex were also the healthiest. So backward science. I wonder how much sex people who look really sick have. Do they have a lot of sex, or is it possible that the people who are healthy-looking have more sex? Backward science. Once you spot it, you see it everywhere.

I saw a story that apparently members of Congress are going to be able to go into a skiff, that highly secure place, and look at UFO stuff. Is that really going to happen? There's really going to be a skiff where we're going to have some of our professional liars go in and tell us what they saw? Is Adam Schiff going to go in the skiff? What happens when Adam Schiff comes out of the skiff and says, "Oh yeah, there's actually an alien body in there. I saw it. I touched it." And everybody else says, "Uh, I didn't see an alien body." We'll be right back where we were.

Do you think that all the people who look at whatever is in the skiff will have the same opinion when they walk out? No, nothing works like that. It's going to be exactly the same as if there had been no skiff. Some people will walk in and say, "I can't tell you what I saw, but my God, aliens." And other people will go in and say, "I looked at the same thing you did. I didn't see any proof of aliens." That's what it's going to be. Two worlds, two movies on one screen.

Well, here's another more science you didn't need to do. So there should be another category

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of science that somebody paid a lot of money to do a study, but it would have been easier just to ask me my opinion because you would have got the same answer. Let me give you an example. A study says that 14% of adults and 12% of children show signs of addiction to ultra-processed foods, which are high in sugar and carbs, and this addiction can be as strong as alcohol and tobacco. And it's all ab…

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