242 Natural Sleep
Check out this terrible YouTube ad for EarthPulse EMF Pulsed Field Technology for Sleeping. Can you spot any logical fallacies in their pitch?
Geez, why is the music always THE WORST.
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WYLONA
I think it's terrible what technology is doing to people's sleep. It's all the unatural lights and radiation! It's so bad that people need to take drugs just to fall asleep again!
CRAIG
Actually, I use a CPAP machine to help my apnea.
WYLONA
See? I'm sorry, but if you forget to breathe in your sleep, it's probably time to die.
I think it's terrible what technology is doing to people's sleep. It's all the unatural lights and radiation! It's so bad that people need to take drugs just to fall asleep again!
CRAIG
Actually, I use a CPAP machine to help my apnea.
WYLONA
See? I'm sorry, but if you forget to breathe in your sleep, it's probably time to die.
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Wylonese Darwinism?
I have designed a sleep machine which is easy and cheap to make. It works on the basis of transfered inertia and is a natural method that has been used for thousands of years to induce instant sleep.. I have brought it into the 21st century by using a hi-tech ceramic lithium and copper coil magnetic compound which closely resembles the traditional house brick in weight and form. I have been told constant use may have some health issues, but I am currently looking for some people to test it on a regular basis. If anyone is interested, please send me £500 for a free sample.
Lethal sleep apnea: One of many ways nature tells you “your genes are defective, you die so that your defect does not spread”, and it’s a message that humans keep wanting to ignore. I’d be far more accepting of technology’s ability to deflect such maladies if they actually cured the root problem.
But, of course, Industrialized Medicine has No Interest in Permanently Curing Anything.
But if technology can compensate for a defect, is there really any reason to select against it? Should we also stop manufacturing eyeglasses?
Given the context of this page, I assume that you’re being sarcastic… but that was too convincingly similar to what I’ve seen said in seriousness…
Yeah, I love how alt med promotes ‘natural’ cures for things that go away on their own, and make people with more serious health issues feel guilty.
“should we also stop manufacturing eyeglasses?”
If we fixed the genetic defect that predisposes the need for glasses, then yes, there’d be no point in making more. Which is why that’s never going to happen. There’s no money in it, long-term. There’s ‘compensating’ for a defect, and then there’s ‘curing’ it. Why remove the issue when you can string someone along for decades on band-aids?
“Why remove the issue when you can string someone along for decades on band-aids?” So the polio vaccine is a conspiracy against the iron lung and leg caliper manufacturers? Plus who is to say that what we consider to be a defect evolution doesn’t? It may be that the gene for future survival against a future epidemic virus rides on the back of the gene that causes short-sightedness.
Oh please, iron lungs and leg calipers have far more applications than just treating polio. And seriously, an epidemic that hinges on short-sightedness? You’re reaching to ludicrous levels, here, there’s nothing to argue against.
Don’t see too many iron lungs these days… don’t really know about calipers, but still, polio patients WERE a big market for them!
And what if the “defect” that causes short sightedness is actually due to a gene that impacts, say, muscle stretchiness throughout the whole body, and would in fact be protective against a pandemic of some type of a virus that causes muscles to contract uncontrollably? Stretchier muscles might not contract as tightly (explaining why they can’t tighten the lens correctly) leading indirectly to enhanced survival of short-sighted people! That is, short-sightedness is not selected for, but is a consequence of the selected trait!
@Ash: I think Zorland might have been being a bit short-sighted. He might be glad of your far-sighted explanation when the pandemic arrives.
I am genuinely confused as to what point you are trying to make.
If your glasses are bothering you THAT much, you can always get lasik
Hey, look! A troll! Can I feed him?
Where’s Billy Goat Gruff when you need him?
Well, sorry to offend Nature, but I’d rather live.
The compensation still constitutes a burden willfully perpetuated.
There are many non leather conditions that once would have been selected against. EDS causes cronic pain, I would preffer it be wiped out.
I presume the non leather conditions are for vegans?