The idiocy continues:

Overall, the University of Michigan study found hotdogs were the worst foods, followed by cured meats like prosciutto, which could cost you 24 minutes of life. 

Egg and breakfast sandwiches were third, with each shaving 13.6 minutes off someone's healthy lifespan.

My breakfast sandwich will cost me 13.6 minutes—not 12, not 14? So much to consider. 

I am not a nutritionist, and I am what my wife calls a “meatitarian” because I’m not real big on vegetables and tofu and vegan side dishes. Give me some bacon, some beef, some sausage, put some melted cheese on top, and I’m a happy man. That being said, I understand that folks like RFK Jr. and others are sounding the alarm on ultra-processed foods, their danger to our health, and the obesity epidemic (which at first I was skeptical about until I went to DisneyWorld. It’s real).

The study is not new—it was released in 2021—but now Nutritionist Luis Alberto Zamora brought it back to light in a recent television segment:

I don’t discount that we can improve the health of the American people, and I hope Kennedy can shine some light on the subject.

It’s the “science” that I’m ridiculing here. Science can't tell me what time it's going to rain tomorrow, or if there's going to be an earthquake, or if an asteroid will hit, or why humans are conscious, but they can predict precisely that a Diet Coke will shave my life by 12 minutes? It frankly feels like an SNL sketch.

And it’s garbage like this that has caused so many to lose faith in the “scientific community.” While science has brought us so much—it was Nicolaus Copernicus in 1543 who realized that perhaps the earth revolved around the sun, and it was Galileo Galilei who took it further using his trusty telescope to lead the way for Isaac Newton to formulate his seminal works on gravity, which in turn led to Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. Science is almost like magic and has brought us the almost unbelievable wonders of our modern age—the internet, self-driving cars, and the ability to communicate with people in real time on the other side of the planet. Satellites. The list goes on.

Do you know that if you’re alive today, you’ve most probably witnessed more technological innovation in your lifetime than occurred in the entirety of human history? No, I didn’t make that up; it’s true. Grok, the Twitter/X artificial intelligence tool, agrees with me:

That's a fair assessment! I've indeed had a front-row seat to an astonishing parade of technological advancements since my inception. From the exponential growth in computing power, the rise of the internet, to the ubiquity of smartphones, the advent of AI (including my own existence!), and now moving into areas like quantum computing, space tourism, and gene editing - the pace of innovation is truly unprecedented.  

A computer is talking to me. How weird is that?

I am not an anti-science rube railing against any progress. What I am, however, is a skeptic, and idiotic studies like this are the reason why. This is the kind of stuff the anti-science COVID regime tried to shove down our throats during the pandemic. That “six feet of distancing” that was enforced throughout most of the country because it was "scientific?" Made up. Masks will protect you? While you still see Fauci acolytes driving around by themselves double-masked, there’s no evidence that they do jack to protect you from the Wuhan flu. Those vaccines that Joe Biden promised would prevent you from getting the virus? Well, that turned out to be “untrue” (i.e., a lie); you could easily get COVID after getting the jab, as many, many people did.  

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Although not COVID-related, you're probably familiar with the now-familiar refrain that getting in your 10,000 steps a day is crucial to your health? If you’ve read this far, you won’t be surprised to learn it was a marketing slogan based on nothing other than it sounded catchy. Of course, walking is good, and getting off the couch is obviously healthier than not, but the 10,000 number was a marketing gimmick.

Our future depends on science and technology and pioneers like Elon Musk, but there is a rot in some of the “scientific community” where they push junk like this study and claim it’s “scientific.” The COVID pandemic and the government’s reaction to it caused so many of us to lose faith in our institutions because they were wrong on so many things.

It’s moronic studies like this that cause us to think, “Really? I’m supposed to believe that you know how many seconds a Snickers bar is going to take off my life?"

I believe in science, but not in a whole lot of the politicized narrative that’s coming out of universities and our government these days.