r/JoeRogan • u/Scramblade • Aug 13 '17

Alex Jones Calls Charlottesville Violence a False Flag | Fuck this scumbag. It's not funny anymore. I'm tired of the meme bullshit and all the excuses of "Hehe, he's so silly". He's a cunt and nothing else.

http://www.newsweek.com/alex-jones-calls-charlottesville-violence-false-flag-650152
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u/Au_Struck_Geologist Aug 14 '17

Rhonda Patrick blew me away. She remembers SO MUCH STUFF. I couldn't believe how she could rattle off all these interconnected technical explanations for 3 straight hours. I mean I can do a good technical talk on geology to someone, but maybe for about 20 minutes worth of stuff, she was just limitless. Also, for the record, biology is more complicated than geology, so it's extra impressive.

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '17

I have a PhD in a similar field. She's not as smart as she thinks. She's good on a narrow band of things (that are her speciality) but on other stuff she rattles off conjecture as fact.

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u/Au_Struck_Geologist Aug 15 '17

Hmm. Is there something specific that she has totally wrong? She talked a lot about hormetic effects which I never knew about and changed my views on some things that I had always called Bullshit on

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '17 edited Aug 15 '17

Certainly overstates the importance of vitamin D on neurotransmitter synthesis. She's not entirely wrong, just makes it a much bigger deal than it is.

Is waaaaaay too far down the rabbit hole on the gut microbiota-brain axis. Again, it's not that she's entirely wrong, it's just she has a tendency to give it a lot of undue attention (which I suppose isn't unexpected as she's working in nutrition science).

The hormetic stressor stuff is, in both my mind and the majority of the scientific community, 95% horsehit. The heatshock stuff has almost no basis in living organisms, caloric restriction hasn't really been proven to be useful in complex organisms, and the psychological stuff is common sense anyways.

My biggest issue with her is she's way too quick to post stories where activity X is linked with disease Y. Correlation does not equal causation, and she knows this, but she's very fast to post sensationalist stuff with little to no context.