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Christopher Key #crackpot #dunning-kruger iflscience.com

Case Report Shows Why Injecting Yourself With Urine Is A Very Bad Idea

A notorious anti-vaxxer has graduated from urging his followers to drink their own pee as a cure, to injecting himself in the arm with the fluid.

Christopher Key injected the "aged urine" into himself during an interview, having previously touted "urine therapy" (or, more accurately known, quaffing your own pee pee) as "the antidote" to COVID-19. 

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There is, of course, no evidence for either practice.

“If you look at urine in the index of medical textbooks, you will not find it referenced as a therapeutic agent, your own or from anyone else,” Dr. William Schaffner, an expert in preventative medicine and infectious diseases from Vanderbilt University Medical Center, told The Daily Beast. “There are no studies of any kind of quality to show that drinking one’s own or anyone else’s urine has a medical benefit.”

And injecting urine is no better. In fact, in a shocking turn of events, injecting yourself with waste products can actually be quite damaging to your health. In one man's case, it was nearly fatal.

A 38-year-old livestock inspector was brought into the emergency room completely unconscious, following two episodes of seizures, his doctors write in The Journal of Global Infectious Diseases. He had no other medical history of note, and had not suffered any seizures prior to this episode. In a coma, he was transferred to intensive care and tested to find the cause, while doctors tried to fight his sepsis.

"On day 11, he confessed that he collected his urine in a container and self injected about 10 milliliters of his urine intravenously to maximize his vitality and potency, as he had developed nausea and vomiting twice after drinking his urine orally," the team wrote in their report.

"This might have led to polymicrobial sepsis, toxic encephalopathy [brain dysfunction], and septic shock with multi organ dysfunction. Psychological assessment did not reveal any abnormalities."

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Charlie Kirk #crackpot #dunning-kruger #wingnut iflscience.com

Anti-Abortion Activist Charlie Kirk Declares Dolphin Fetus Is "Without A Doubt" A Human Being

Anti-abortion activist Charlie Kirk has gone further than other anti-choice advocates of recent times, declaring that a dolphin fetus is "without a doubt" a human being.

For his show Debate Night with Charlie Kirk, Kirk invited on guest Ben Gleib. It was on this platform, which describes itself as a space to "bring the contested ideologies of today to the forefront of the cultural conversation" that he declared a dolphin fetus to be a human person. We guess he wasn't kidding when they declared that "on Debate Night, nothing's off the table".

Comedian Ben Gleib brought his own props to use in a discussion around abortion, an ultrasound which he presented to Charlie Kirk, asking "do you truly believe, in your heart of hearts, do you truly believe that this is a human being?"

"Without a doubt," Kirk replies without hesitation. It's at this point that Gleib reveals he's looking at a dolphin fetus.

David #conspiracy iflscience.com

[Posting on an article in support of vaccinations]

Just because someone points out forcefully injecting harmful compounds into your child may not be the best idea he is a crank? Just like all those H1N1 idiots that got their flu shots and developed serious conditions? The fact we believe in and trust a nameless, faceless entity who's only purpose in life is to "protect us" (while making trillions of dollars) is a little ridiculous. The fact is, none of these companies make any money with a healthy population and world rid of disease. Leading scientists always say one thing and 20 years down the road its always "we were wrong and this actually happened".

AimeeGurl #fundie iflscience.com

People are idiots for blindly believing in science. People who believe in science think it's not a faith but you don't realize more than half of science is based on things you can't see. You guys swear buy big bang but you weren't there to see it. I have a witness, God, who is yours? Science can't even figure out how to cure cancer or isolate it from the gene pool so it is no longer a hereditary problem. I have someone who can do all that and more, God. Where's your super doctor? Oh can't help because he didn't make the phenomenon that is the human body? Tsk. Tsk. Every time you see a "theory" that's something that's not guaranteed to be correct that's just something accepted as correct by a bunch of flawed people. Science and math are plagued with them. You're putting your faith in people that aren't perfect and that makes you comfortable because you aren't perfect but imperfect people can't lead you to perfection. I am a science and math major and I'm not half as dumb as people on here. Being Christian doesn't mean to be ignorant, I know to look for the science in the world my God created and I'm thankful for every bit of knowledge I get but with that understanding also comes the ability to discern what what I need to pass class and what science is questionable. You rely on science to keep you alive everyday and it fails, everyday. I rely on God to keep me alive everyday and even when they bury me in the ground I'll be alive because that's what being a Christian means. Atheist and scientists don't bother me for not believing in God you guys bother me because you don't accept your "faith" and circumstances for what they are.

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