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Perish the thought. Should I have said they are electron-worshippers?

"Whinging Pom" is standard language in Australia. It did not evolve accidentally.

AS the saying goes, ugly as a hatful of bums,

There is a WHO publication called "Food, Nutrition and Cancer" . It's about 3 inches thick, and comes out as revised edition every couple of years. It discusses every cancer known to man from the viewpoint of statistical analysis of deaths in each category. The evidence is overwhelming. If you smoke, drink, or are obese, you have a much higher probability of dying of cancer. What is remarkable is while alcohol and tobacco are linked to a few very specific cancers, obesity is linked to almost every one of them. The message is quite clear - lose the beer gut. My own hypothesis is that fat is an accumulator of toxins, inhibiting the body's ability to detoxify them. In point of fact, I could kill any drinker on this forum overnight by massive liver failure with several compounds, and it would be virtually undetectable. Anyone who has seen the images from an electron microscope of bacteria and viruses would disagree with your hypothesis. Do you think the millions of dollars spent on Stage 4 biological laboratories is money wasted? Your theory says it is.

I can remember when I was working in the iron ore industry in the sixties in WA. Port Hedland had a sizeable Aboriginal population. Every white parent in town that could afford it sent their kids to boarding schools in Perth. If the kids stayed in Port Hedland, it would only be a couple months before they would be speaking pidgin English just like the Aboriginal kids.

AFAIK the first successful cancer treatment based on immunological vaccination was BCG treatment for bladder cancer. I should know, having had it in 2006. It involves introduction of attenuated live tuberculosis bacteria into the bladder. The success rate of full remission is 90-95%, which is why I am still here. The number of tools medical science has evolved since then is amazing, what with monoclonal antibodies and targeted inhibitors. Chemotherapy has become a fairly blunt tool. I have no doubt anything that gets the immune system to do the fighting is the way to go. In contrast, chemotherapy crushes the immune system, The hysteria and misinformation I am seeing from people who get their information from quacks on social media is quite depressing.

Nothing happens in Chiang Rai to excite the mongers, conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers. A couple of EV fanboys, that's it as far as the nutters go. Please stay away, there's enough foreigners here already.

First you have misrepresented ivermectin as winning a Nobel prize. Now you have represented the 5% IgG4 as "normal 1-2%" You are a serial liar, on ignore now.

It does when he is espousing ivermectin as a COVID prophylactic. Tell me, does he actually make any money from nursing?

https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-nobel-ivermectin-idUSL1N2QB2XA I don't have any problem with accepting a good diet, regular exercise and avoiding over-indulgence in recreational drugs such as alcohol is conducive to longevity. I also agree pharmaceuticals are hard on the kidneys and liver, and it is best to limit their use as much as possible via alternative strategies. Having said that, without modern mainstream medicine I would not be 80. I would have carked it about 17 years ago with bladder cancer. And more recently, with other problems. A physio recently told me I was in the top 5% of 80 yo's in terms of physical fitness and BMI. The evidence is modern medicine has extended our average lifespan significantly since the 1900's, and improved the quality of our lives. The data says red states in the US had significantly more COVID deaths and long-term effects than blue states. It also says seriously ill COVID patients being admitted to an ICU are six times more likely to be unvaccinated. So when people want to panic over a study which is not even peer-reviewed, and put the gloomiest interpretation on the results, excuse me for thinking of them as <deleted> in the head.

Deep sigh too, people citing stuff which suits their confirmation bias. I can find studies from India that show it was useless. Ivermectin did not win a Nobel prize, you are posting misinformation. People claim qualifications they don't have all the time, they are called scam artists and con men. I could put myself behind a desk with a bookshelf of tomes, go on Youtube with a degree in aerospace engineering, and say the moon landings were fake. I'd get millions of followers, because there are some real idiots out there. A friend of mine once told me PhD really stood for piled higher and deeper. Having mixed with quite a few during my career in science, I don't disagree.

We can agree to disagree on that point. As I said in another post, my parents wondered where I came from. I had read most of Charles Dickens' works before I was 10 yo. Amusing Thais say the education system in America is so much better, Jeff Daniels does not agree with them. I guess that demonstrates how abysmal education in Thailand is.

How do you explain people dying of cancer who are staunch believers in a God?

IIRC he was espousing the virtues of ivermectin as a COVID prophylactic. AFAIK he has not taken any of those videos down, after multiple studies showed a horse-worming pill is completely ineffective. Have you actually checked his qualifications with those institutions?

So are COVID vaccines, what's your point?

You are not trolling and baiting me now? Get lost.

Crutching doesn't extend all the way down the back legs.

The baseline was good, although my parents did wonder where it came from. 50% genetic implies there is another 50% available for improving IQ if one is willing to work. Some are content to coast on what they have. As Gary Player said, the more I practice, the luckier I get.

As a one-off example, my GF seems to have the ability to make friends with other Thais within a few minutes of meeting them. I am not sure I envy the talent, because I would have trouble keeping track of them all.

I disagree. IMO I was successful in my chosen field because I worked in a range of industries before my final gig, which gave me a considerable edge compared to the people who had worked solely in that industry. Doesn't everybody say Thais who have been outside Thailand are smarter than the ones who stay home, where the education system is designed to promote conformity?

IQ in Thailand is lower than average because the education system does not encourage independent thought. OTOH, Thais are among the most social people on the planet. IMO they would compare favorably with us in terms of emotional intelligence. Smartphones must have been like manna from heaven for them.

A degree from a Thai university doesn't count for much in Thailand, even less in other countries. There are graduates working in MacDonald's and KFC. Some bar girls are very smart, how else would they take the life savings of a foreigner, or have half a dozen of them on a string?

Kratom might be better for the pain. Everyone is different, pot acts as a sedative with me, and gives me balance problems.

IMO Macs are something of a fashion accessory as well, and such accessories always command a premium. It's like when people buy a 200 SLK Mercedes for the cachet, when something like a Kia Stinger or Hyundai Kona N will do the job,just as well or better, at a lower cost.

I don't seem to have too many problems with Thais, possibly because I speak the language reasonably well. I do tend to keep to myself, mainly because Thai entertainment and socialising is hard on my eardrums. I certainly like sitting in a shopping mall, and watching slim leggy Thai girls walk past. On balance, I would say I have had more problems with foreigners than Thais.