Back to episode — Episode 2938 CWSA 08/25/25
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t. David Nield is writing that cannabis compounds are showing early promise for healthy aging. That's right. According to this one study, and remember the majority of studies are not reproducible. So when I talk about science, just keep in mind that the overall theme is it's probably mostly made up. But as of today, the science says that you will age better if you're using marijuana. That's what t…
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Now let me summarize the total state of science in 2025. You ready? It can't tell the difference between medicine and poison. Am I right? How many times have we seen that modern science literally can't tell the difference between medicine and poison? I would even include CO2. Is CO2 like a medicine for the planet that's good for the plants, or is it a poison that's going to heat up the atmosphere and kill us all? Science looks like guessing, doesn't it? I wouldn't trust any of it.
Here's another good example. This is presented as a serious article about a serious study. I want you to be the judge of whether this looks like a prank or a serious thing. All right, you ready? So this is from some publication called The Conversation. Michael Vazquez and Michael Prinzing are writing that studying philosophy does make people better thinkers. There was research on more than 600,000 college grads, and now interestingly the two people who did this study are themselves philosophy majors. Huh.
So you're telling me these two philosophy majors did a study that determined that being a philosophy major makes you smarter? Okay, hold that thought. Hold that thought that it was performed by philosophy majors who, presumably if their resea
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rch is correct and their interpretation of it is correct, would be the reason they're so smart. Yeah, the reason they're so smart is because they were philosophy majors. But they looked at the data and sure enough the people who were majoring in philosophy were indeed smarter on other standardized tests than the average of other people. Now here's why I can't tell if this is a prank. Because isn'…
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