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Chris Innanen

Sodium Chloride - High Blood Pressure - The Great Salt Myth - 0 views

  • This latest ban on sodium seems strange
    • Chris Innanen
       
      Next 4 paragraphs and the whole next section: Argument from Antiquity Why the historical perspective may be very interesting, it cannot be used as a basis of argument due to this sub-type of Argument from Authority. If you are just looking for facts relivant to the topic at hand - as I am - it would be best to skip to the next section.
  • If salt was believed to be so valuable and useful in so many ways for so many thousands of years by so many million people from so many different cultures, why is it that we have only recently discovered that it is dangerous?
    • Chris Innanen
       
      Argument From Antiquity Argument From Personal Incredularity Here we have the weight of all but the first paragraph written so far pressed into a single statement. It is a double fallacy depending on how it is read. The actual wordage is AFPI ("how could this be?") though the implication is AFA ("people of the past knew something we don't know now").
  • conspiracy
    • Chris Innanen
       
      With this word - and all that has come before it - this article has lost its last remaining hope for credibility. From now on, I just skim...
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  • Holistic healers
    • Chris Innanen
       
      DWR! ("Danger, Will Robinson!")
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