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Bioethics prof suggests adding 'Mind Control' hormones to water supply to fight COVID

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Bioethics prof suggests adding 'Mind Control' hormones to water supply to fight COVID
https://www.acsh.org/news/2020/08/17/bio...ovid-14975

EXCERPTS: Conspiracy theorists who oppose the fluoridation of drinking water claim that fluoride is added not to strengthen teeth but to allow for mind control. [...] Of course, it's complete nonsense. But now, thanks to a medical ethics professor, conspiracy theorists can point to a real person who really suggested fighting coronavirus by tainting the water supply with a chemical that makes people more cooperative [...to...] help us defeat COVID-19. Here are excerpts of what Prof. Parker Crutchfield wrote in The Conversation:

"But I believe society may be better off, both in the short term as well as the long, by boosting not the body’s ability to fight off disease but the brain’s ability to cooperate with others. What if researchers developed and delivered a moral enhancer rather than an immunity enhancer? Moral enhancement is the use of substances to make you more moral. The psychoactive substances act on your ability to reason about what the right thing to do is, or your ability to be empathetic or altruistic or cooperative. Another challenge is that the defectors who need moral enhancement are also the least likely to sign up for it. As some have argued, a solution would be to make moral enhancement compulsory or administer it secretly, perhaps via the water supply. [Emphasis added]"


Let's set aside the fact that this is bat s#!t crazy and focus on two gigantic problems. First, administering a mind-altering substance to a person without his knowledge or consent is highly unethical. [...] Second, we already have tested extensively drugs that are supposed to alter thoughts and behavior. They're called antidepressants. And a lot of them suck. For some people, antidepressants are no better than placebo or have only modest effects. The same would almost certainly be true of "moral enhancers" like the hormone oxytocin. There's also the problem of side effects, which the author does acknowledge... (MORE - details)



Water myths: Are you dehydrated?
https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/...ehydrated/

EXCERPTS: . . . There are various products on the market that claim to be more hydrating than water alone. [...] If you become dehydrated, what you need is water, not fancy products with other things added. As Consumer Reports says, “There’s not much truth to the hydration claims.”

[...] even doctors have fallen for the myth that we need to drink eight to ten glasses of water a day. Where did that idea come from? As with so many other myths, there is a grain of truth behind it. A very small grain. It was a misinterpretation of a legitimate study. According to MDLinx, the myth may have originated with “a 1945 publication from the National Research Council’s Food and Nutrition Board that stated that an ‘ordinary standard’ of water for adults is 1 mL for each calorie of food.

So, a person who eats 2,000 calories per day would require 2,000 mL of water, or roughly 8 cups. However, the subsequent sentence by the Food and Nutrition Board—’Most of this quantity is contained in prepared foods’—may have been ignored, and so this recommendation was likely misinterpreted as an instruction to drink 8 glasses of water each day.”

[...] Actual water replacement requirements vary with many factors including temperature, humidity, drugs, exercise, vomiting, diarrhea, etc. For most people, assuming no special risk factors, thirst is an adequate guide. Other indicators are urine color and frequency of urination. If you are urinating frequently and your urine is pale yellow rather than deep amber or light brown, dehydration is very unlikely. If you are thirsty and haven’t peed for hours and your urine turns dark, “urine” trouble. You should drink, but not necessarily a glass of water—other beverages will do... (MORE - details)
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Yeah, forcing psychiatric meds on people is highly unethical. If this guy is any indication, no wonder academia has so many problems.
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