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Well, let's hit the science news before we hit the political news. Not much happening politically, but in science, oh my goodness. There's a new study that found that exercising for only 10 minutes a day dropped your risk of cancer by 30 percent. And also that if you just did three short bursts of exercise per day, you can reduce your risk of cancer by 40 percent and get a 50 percent reduction in heart disease. So if you just take a 30-minute walk per day, you're killing it, say the nutritionist scientists.

Now, is it my imagination or have I spent every year for as far back as 67 years consecutively hearing that experts have finally decided how much exercise you need and what is the right kind? Does it seem that after 67 years in a row of updating the right kind of exercise, that now they're done? Oh well, that looks like they're done, 67 years in a row. But no, now they know. Now we've got a real good idea, so no more information needed on exercise. We're all done.

Or could it be backwards science? Could it be backwards science? Let me see. If you could exercise for 10 minutes a day, you have lower risk of cancer. Does that mean that they did a test where they made some people exercise and some not? Or did they simply measure the people who exercised and compared it to people who do not exercise? I wonder if the group of people who do not exercise have something in common, and the people who do exercise have something in common, probably a whole bunch of things. So I'm not even sure this is real science.

But that said, I am pretty sure that exercising is better than not exercising. I feel confident about that.

Meanwhile, there's another story. I can't believe this made it into the news. This is a legitimate news story. Now when I say legitimate, I mean it's completely fake, but it actually made it into the news. There was a Japanese father and bodybuilder who claims he's a true master and has doubled his life by only sleeping half an hour per night for a dozen years. So there's a guy who told a journalist that he only sleeps half an hour a night for the past 12 years. The journalist wrote it down, and then a publisher published it. And not once in the article did it say we have some skepticism about the truth of this.

Now it reminds me when I was a kid there was a group called the breatharians. I've mentioned this before. This was a real group of people who claimed to any reporter who was dumb enough to believe them that they had given up on eating and they no longer needed to eat, and they were getting all of their calories and nutrition by knowing how to breathe properly. So they were called breatharians. And I think it was for months of my life as a young person I was watching the science try to convince me that you could live forever by just breathing the air.

And I see this story of the Japanese bodybuilder who only sleeps half an hour a night, and I think, huh, I think I've seen this story before.

All right, so there's new controversy, says the news, about whether dairy products are good for you or bad for you. What do you think? Are dairy products good for you or bad for you? Well, what do we know about how everything works in the world? Is there or is there not a large dairy farming business? Is there an industry that makes a lot of money on selling you dairy products? If there is, then is there science that says it's good for you? I'll bet there is. And can we guess who might have funded the science that says that dairy is good for you? It might be that same industry that's making money by selling you dairy. I don't know for sure, but that would be the normal way things work.

And what about the people who say that dairy is bad for you? Are they using science? Well, if science were real, science is just guessing at this point. I mean really, most science is just guessing. It's just no better than a coin flip. So is dairy good for you or bad for you? I have no way to know and no idea. If I had to guess, it's probably good for some people at some amount and bad for other people at any amount. That's my guess. There's probably just a lot of human variability.

But if you want to get your nutrients like calcium or something, you might have to work on that a little hard if you're not getting your dairy. At the moment I don't need any dairy, at least consciously, so I'm down to zero dairy. Is anybody else with me on zero? And by the way, I'm not claiming that that's healthier. I'm claiming that I don't know. I feel good if I don't eat it. I feel my stomach doesn't handle it well, but I'm not positive about that. And I'm not sure that cheese is the same as milk for my body.

But imagine 2024 and we still don't know this basic question. Is one of the main things that you eat good for you or bad for you? You think that would be a really important question to know the right answer.

Forbes has an article about a study that says that humans, now you're not going to believe this, you better buckle up. Here's some scientific information that you never would have guessed, never would have known this without science. Turns out that people don't use the logical parts of their brain for making decisions, and that in many, many cases people will ignore the objective cost benefit and make irrational decisions. Huh. Do you think they wasted a little money on that little bit? Because you know what you could have done instead of doing that big study? You could have asked me or any hypnotist. Do people make decisions based on rational brains? No, no. We make our decision first and then we rationalize why we did it. Until you understand that, you'll never be effective in life. It's such a limitation to think that you're a rational creature or that other people are.

How about this? There's new science according to Science Mag that fact-checking, if something gets fact-checked and says it's fake, that that will be very influential on us even if there are other things that say it's true. So the ide