This happened long ago in human history, as my son is now in his early forties and I am pushing fifty. We placed our kids in Catholic schools, as my childhood indoctrination mandated. But that makes no difference. His teacher, a nice lady whose main job was to keep order, found him to be acting up. She decided it was time to have him drugged, and suggested we turn him over to the experts in the Billings, Montana School District #2 for testing for ADHD. My son is of normal intelligence, certainly not slow. I intuitively knew they would find him guilty of excess brain activity.
I rebelled at the idea, and instead decided to take him to a pediatrician for separate testing. I was burdened at the time with child support and alimony, so the $300 bill had to be paid off in $50 chucks, but I did it.
The doctor reported back to the school, the words etched in my memory: “The kid is bored!”
I knew that, but as a divorced, shattered, broke, preoccupied man I did not take time to get him or his siblings energized in curiosity and real learning. I was steeped in Chomsky, who noted that it was the job of a teacher to merely throw out a long rope and allow the child to follow it where it might take him, to areas not “taught” and books that might contain heretical content. His teacher reluctantly decided that since drugs were out of the question he would be assigned reading during times of boredom.
He’s got children of his own now, and I do hope he absorbed the lesson, that ADHD is a fad. In another family I noticed a young boy whose parents had heeded the advice, and drugged him. I watched him from across a room one day as he sat, and it was as if he was short-bus material, jaw slackened, not drooling, but close to it. No doubt the parents and teachers all answered a strong affirmative to George W. Bush’s question, “Is our kids learning?”
I noticed a headline in a newspaper yesterday that says “ADHD May Not Be a Disorder After all.”
No shit, Sherlock.
Piece of Mindful 
Before my children entered the “indoctrination” clinic, I drafted an “affidavit”. This official document specified exactly the things I would allow the district to teach my children. At first, I came at the paper from a negative view-point, what not to teach them. This was too long and I soon knew I would never be able to cover everything that those devious fuckers would make up. I hand delivered it to the principle, with my signature, as well as two witnesses’ signatures. In Texas this is a lawful document, remaining in effect until I might withdraw it, admissible in court. I’m sure they sat around laughing at my simple little one-page document. They ignored it and threw it away. If they’d have done their “homework” (pun intended), they would have read that they had a 30 day window of opportunity to contest my document. As you can guess, they started teaching things not on my approved list, in and out of school. I went back to school. Handed them a cease-and-desist order. And you guessed it, they laughed in my face. No problem. I then filed to sue them in court. I presented my one page to the judge, the day it was delivered. Verified by a cameras in the school as well as the principal’s office. They brought with them some attorney, no doubt at tax-payer expense. The judge wouldn’t even let the attorney open his mouth. Ruled against them and asked me if I cared to sue them. I did not. I won the battle and the war in one fell-swoop. The school asked, just so they could be sure they understood it, for me to file it again. I laughed. Never file twice and give them the opportunity to object. Occasionally, I would randomly check up on the “teachers”. Surprisingly, they got the message.
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My oh my, did not expect a reply like that! Kudos on having brains and courage at once, a good dad.
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I also got my son all the way from birth until 18 years old without any vaccines. This was more difficult and dangerous, as my wife at the time was a nurse. We never disclosed how. It would have cost her a nursing license.
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May your son live well and prosper.
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Thank you Mark.
My son has a VI after his name. My grandson a VII.
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I have a MS after mine. I was named after Mark Stevens, family grocer who Mom and Dad liked.
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lmfao! Took the wind out of my sails and made me laugh.
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I was not intending that at all, nothing like that. I like self-deprecating humor, and am married to a woman who has traced her ancestry back to William the Conquerer. Consequently I think of my own ancestry, which cannot be traced back more than three generations, as that of farmers and more farmers. That’s all I’ve found. So I joke that our family reunions are also known as “furloughs.”
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Well, you know what they say. Men marry up. Women marry down. In essence, men and women are the same. It’s just that women loath having to admit it.
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I was only successful in getting no vaccines after a certain point….very difficult. I’d love to know you went from 0-18 (I managed from 2 onward….) I’ll continue investigating this! Great job!
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It starts with the “certificate of birth” and the SSN.
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A point to ponder. I grew up on a farm. All of our “livestock” were birthed in a “livery” stable. While all of our human children are “delivered” in a “delivery room”. Coninsidence? Maybe it’s nothing. Then again, maybe it’s everything. Never underestimate the power of words. After all, the attorneys who wright all of the laws that govern us say what they mean and mean what they say.
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It sounds like the judge was pissed at the school administrators for not taking it at all seriously, not contesting it legally, and wanted to teach them a lesson.. maybe?
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You’re only 50…okay typo lol, but ya I remember the special education kids in grade school, they had their own classroom section in the building and their own teachers that were paid more than regular teachers. Some kids had the down’s syndrome look, others looked normal but maybe slow reactions. We weren’t allowed to associate with them probably to prevent bullying or rudeness. They had lunch at different times, and I never saw them at any sports or school activities. There are legitimate special needs examples, but what do drugs and vaccines really do to little kids. It was all about money, getting funds and grants back then too for the school districts.
I wonder about those kids if some were naturally disabled or just screwed up from drugs and vaccines. I have my grade school yearbook and their photos are in there. I’ve never seen any of them in the community, I guess they moved away, I may look a few of the up see if they are still alive or became successful. So good call back then on keeping your son off the drugs, probably saved his life..
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Re what vaccines do, I found this piece from miri af very thought provoking. She argues that they’re responsible for the worldwide decline in BMR, basal metabolic rate. Long piece but enjoyable read, she’s a good writer –
https://miri.substack.com/p/food-for-thought
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That’s a good piece, but I’ve a hard time reconciling to vaccines and obesity. It would not surprise me, but I’ve linked obesity to diet – too many carbs. A visit to McDs yields a Coke®, french fries, a bun, and a slice of cheese and what we think is a thin slice of what we think is meat. For more filling items they add lettuce, pickles, dressing, but in my mind it is the french fries and the Coke® that cause weight gain. For most people wanting to lose weight, they recommend vegetables, low fat meats, fish, low salt … and it does not work. What are we missing?
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PS: A habit I had to quit quickly once I learned what I was ingesting: I would go to the car wash and on the way pick up 2 McDs spicy chickens to have while waiting. Then I looked them up … 47 grams of carbs each! 94 total, three times what I normally allow in a week! Well, if that’s a daily habit, and no doubt the rest of the menu is like that, then it is impossible to lose weight.
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Certainly that’s been my thinking as well after reading Taubes, who is very persuasive. But she made several points that I can’t easily dismiss. And it’s always bugged me about Taubes that he’s a very mainstream writer being allowed to blow the cover on Ansel Keyes and the heart health hypothesis. The best I could figure was that they were letting it out in a limited way, since it would mostly be the professional classes with the inclination to read his books. Although low carb of course is promoted by numerous YouTubers and health gurus.
I read his first tome that detailed Keyes’ corruption a long time ago, pre-Mathis and others. Even then it seemed a wild tale. But now I would wonder if it’s a kind of controlled demolition of insider Keyes, but not the real full story. It may be “true,” or true enough, but a partial truth that conceals other things (such as miri’s hypothesis.)
It reads like a fantastic conspiracy theory to a degree – but a conspiracy CANDY theory. All put out by a major publisher, a mainstream science journalist – it’s an official narrative, and hugely entertaining. Would make a great movie, if Hollywood were interested. Ergo, it’s probably not the full story.
It could be a type of high level misdirection – largely true that carbs are a huge contributor, but maybe especially so on a public with lowered BMR. Thus it could be a type of misdirection from a more fundamental problem, to avert attention from the vaccines and give people a very convincing explanation for the whole problem – when it’s only a partial, contributing factor (hypothetically.. I haven’t yet seen full evidence one way or another, such as how closely BMR and vaccine exposure correlates with obesity rates, vs increase of carbs in the average diet.
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I don’t buy the BMR argument – go to Asia or Africa and obesity rate is still not that high, although ticking upwards – because of a a massive snack attack on the world. I believe it’s snacks that are the major source of obesity, and they are pushed everywhere, and almost always junk carbs, as Mark has noted. In Thailand I noticed my wifes fat friends were buying cases of snack foods at a time, which are everywhere now – just like the united states. Walk through any supermarket and 90% of the food is junk packaged snacks.
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Mark, Ray – you could both be right that it’s the carbs, and the vaccines don’t cause lowered BMR. But I still find the whole BMR thing to be a major, major story that no one is talking about and demands an explanation. The science papers she links don’t even speculate as to the cause – which is almost a tell to me that they might privately be thinking “vaccines” but know they can’t say that. They just rule out many common explanations that are given.
I also think that if they’re correct about BMR, one would EXPECT there to be major health fallout of some kind. As miri points out, there’s a widely remarked phenomenon of younger generations looking more neotenic, ie youthful, baby-faced, compared to previous generations at their same age, as seen in photos. And lower BMR would logically cause that as BMR is related to how fast one ages. But most likely the vaccine enthusiasts are not trying to improve human longevity….. However they may want a sluggish, fatigued populace that’s more susceptible to carb damages than even their grandparents were (and we’ve had many decades of high carb now, and yet it seems to have even worse effects in younger cohorts.)
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I have seen the thing about people looking younger now than they used to – it’s quite funny and compelling if you look at how old people used to look at just 40 or 50 years old., there are some good videos on youtube about that, using popular actors as examples. I am lucky to look young for my age, I have all my hair and no grey at 55. AI thinks I am 48, which I figured was as objective a number as you can get. There’s not a great explanation I can think of except smoking is much less common than it used to be for that phenomenon.
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Are you skeptical of the vaccine/ BMR link, or of the whole lower BMR claim entirely, whatever the cause? I skimmed over some of the journal papers, they seem to have a good case for lower average BMR than previous generations, unless they’re just massively falsifying data, or some kind of huge fraud.. and if so, why? Since they’re not blaming anything, just pointing it out.
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Yes I am. Here is why. If vaccines are really causing serious physical damage, why are so many athletic records falling, and there has not been a decrease in amateur sports participation? And moreover, I don’t see much increase in obesity of Asians, except those that have a sedentary lifestyle. What I see is an unprecedented marketing campaign of food in general, and just total amount of junk food that is available and marketed at people. My Thai in-laws have been vaccinated as much as the average of population, and get up at 4AM and work until 6PM, so I don’t see any decrease in their physical drive or capacity. The Occams razor explanation is manual labor is becoming less and less common, and the amount of food that is available, at cheap prices, is much higher than I remember growing up in the 1970s for example.
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Also manual labor will make you look old, being out in the sun all day, not eating enough nutritious food, drinking excessively, smoking. All these trends have been decreasing over the past century.
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Aside from the vaccines though, you also think the journals are wrong that average BMR has fallen, correct?
To a couple of your points, on manual labor or more sedentary lives, both miri and the research she links address that. They have some technical term, but basically it’s not that much of a factor – you can be sedentary, but if you have a 19th century BMR your body will burn what it needs to to keep you lean and fit, with just moderate activity levels, a little walking etc. You don’t have to be farming all day to be fit.
And also as miri says much of the industrial world was already in modern jobs of one sort or another by the 60s, not doing hard manual labor all day.
On outdoor work aging you – a lot of the examples out there include famous people, who led lives of leisure, yet they also look much older at young ages than people do now. Old in a facial structure way sort of, not like bad skin from smoking and drinking a lot.
I don’t know about Thais working from 4am to 6pm, but in the US I think there are millions who deal with “chronic fatigue syndrome” and similar. That I could see blaming on the carbs, caffeine, etc. But I could also see it being related to lower average BMR, especially if the new average, trending even lower, is “abnormal” for the human animal and not where we’re supposed to be to thrive.
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I was thinking about vaccines today, and what I think they do. First, to be clear, I think they are junk (fake) medicine at best, and purposeful poisons at worst.
If they are poisons, I believe there’s a lot of circumstantial evidence they are one of the causes for the explosion in autistic children. And I do believe special needs kids have increased a lot since I was born in 1970, when I remember over 90% of the kids were pretty high functioning. We were vaccinated, but not as much as they get today to be clear. Also, I remember I seldom got sick, most years I didn’t miss a day of school, and at most a few days. Now kids routinely get sick, and my colleagues at work who are regularly vaccinated get sick a lot, whereas I avoid vaccines since the Covid ones I had I 2021 ( which caused me to have the worst headaches I have ever had, similar to what other colleagues said happened to them) – making me believe there was some neurological poison in the Covid shots. However most of us that got the covid shots are still alive, unlike some of the doomers who were predicting we’d all be dead from them by now.
But I do think there is a divide and conquer aspect to the vaccines – where they got to divide the populace, especially in America into two camps that were essentially at war, and remain to some extent, over this issue.
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What was your reason for taking the clot shot? I think everyone that comments on here knew it was bad. Mark posted some very informative articles about the subject, during that 2020-2022 timeframe. My employer put up a mandate, yet the Supremes voted against it, then a day later we no longer had to get one or upload the vax card. Still had to wear a mask, a few people still wearing one occasionally to this day, very sad.
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Taubes got his start during cold fusion, being one who blew the lid off that. Don’t know what to make of it.
Ray below refers to snacks, legitimate, but “snacks” are just carbs which they market in mass quantities because we like them. Nutritionists are like virologists and climate scientists, professional phonies, most too dumb to know their own profession or to think outside groupthink. It helps to be smarter than your teachers, and most are not.
Latest fads are “highly processed” foods cause more weight gain than foods of the same makeup with less processing. This is fresh bullshit right off the grill. They make this stuff up to avoid the simple fact that KETO dieting works and can even improve or cure conditions like diabetes and certainly obesity. But the so-called “experts” hide from this simple fact, and I can only think mass groupthink as the reason unless our leaders want a fat sick population. If so, they do not seem to mind the cost of maintenance for, say, diabetics, or a relative who had a quintuple bypass.
Long before there was “KETO”, short for ketosis, or fat burning, there was normal eating, plenty of saturated fat and protein supplemented by vegetables, and on weekends, dessert! Sugar was minimized in our diets. In my youth, there were two fat kids in my class of thirty. That was the norm.
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I’m not proud to admit, but if you want to know anything about ADHD drugs ask me. I certainly know more about them than 99.9% of the population, having unfortunately been addicted to them in grad school and after – several years – too many to admit.
I did synthesize them at home, as a chemist, nicking all the required supplies from the chem department while getting my masters, after being exposed to them as an undergraduate. Then after almost burning down my apartment I realized you could with relative ease get a psychopharmacologist to prescribe whatever you wanted. Since I am pretty good at getting what I want, the docs gave me whatever I wanted. Which was far too many stimulants.
I can say they actually do work for studying and exams, I went from being the bottom half of my class as an undergraduate, because I had studied very little in my life, to being the top student in my graduate class. These drugs do work – for a while if you are disciplined – and you can power study like a demon. I could read books of several hundred pages in a single sitting, no problem. Problem was no sleep, and you become extremely anti-social and introverted, which I am naturally, and irritiable.
Anyhow these stimulants are bad news, if anyone wants more info feel free to ask – as I said I know more than any of the damn doctors pushing the crap, who by the way do not like when you say you want to get off the drugs, and reduce your dose. I had to block my doctor, who sounded extremely sad I was leaving him, even though he was retiring.
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Hi Greg, I can’t reply directly to your comment – why did I get vaccinated? Because honestly I was like 90% of the population in Massachusetts, a true believer, I thought the vaccine was legit. As probably 85% still believe in my neck of the woods. I just started noticing things were not as they seemed in 2021. I think becoming skeptical is something that happens based on who you interact with, and 98% of the people I work/worked with are pro-vaccine, and still are to this day. The outlier was my cousin who is a big born again Christian, and yet quite successful – she is/was head of a VA hospital, yet did not vaccinate her children. And for that her father, my uncle, an MIT PhD, made him think she was crazy. So I am about the only one I know who is real vaccine skeptic. And if it hadn’t been for COVID, I might never have become a skeptic.
And do not underestimate how many of the elite are true believers – the so-called scientific elite that I work with – I would guess about 98-99%.
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Just a brief anecdote … my older brother became a priest, and early in his education commented one day as I and our parents stood around about the Catholic “Search”. He said that the objective was to keep the kids up for a whole weekend, so that in their sleep-deprived state they would believe anything you told them. If you’re not familiar with it, no doubt they still do it.
At another time when I was too young to drive we took our little Studebaker from Billings to Milwaukee, a thousand miles. Coming back we had an additional passenger, a med student from Chicago, and he did most of the driving, needing no sleep. I knew at that time (or later learned) that he was high on amphetimines, the only way he could get through med school.
From that over time I gleaned that medical school deliberately keeps student sleep deprived. Most of what they learn is garbage and never used. But sleep deprivation is the objective, to fill their heads with bugs and drugs and vaccines and to create certainty they know what they are doing. Later mass indoctrination via television will make them into gods, Marcus Welby, Kildare, Ben Casey, the whole of ER and now The Pitt to name a few.
So do doctors believe in viruses and vaccines? Yes! It was part of their brainwashing, very deliberately done
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At least now we have our waking up point. i’ll never volunteer for a vax or flu shot ever again, but the damage has already been done from the ones I had in my youth. I’m still wondering how I can sue my employer or even school district for making me go thru all of that. Some brillant attorney should have found a way to get financial compensation for this issue. Especially with all the wacky class action lawsuits, where anyone that signs up at least get’s a small check. At the time it didn’t cause me financial loss, but what about health failings in the future. If we didn’t mask up, it fell under misconduct, known as a write up and then discharge. Somehow employers had a loophole to avoid any legal situation and could mandate policies for employees. Falling into the “at will” contract where if we don’t like the policies we can quit. Those plexiglass windows and social distance floor mats were in the stockrooms in 2019. The executives knew what was going to happen. Another display of Fraud that went unpunished.
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