It’s unfortunate that the “everything you consume is slowly poisoning you” contingent has to get involved, but thus is the internet.

Call it ad hominem if you will, I prefer to think of it as a junk filter, but in either case, certain things tend to flag an argument as being, for lack of a better term, new age hippie bullshit, and really high on the list is people who talk about how the Dark Forces are trying to suppress their findings. Another big clue is when their research is supposed to explain a huge swath of maladies in one tight little package. Normally they are not so bold as to heap the laurels on themselves though, waiting instead for others to do it; I guess she was just in a rush when she penned lines like,

“It took a fictional child to point out that the Emperor’s new clothes consisted of his birthday suit and not a thing more, but I’m not a character in a book. A quiet woman from New England, I was an above average student in high school. But my intellect depreciated when I lost 27 years, including recovery years, due to chronic allergic response, medical ignorance and caffeine, a legal psychoactive drug. Well, I am “back.” And thank goodness I am a medical technologist and know how the human brain and the other organs function. “

Yes, thank goodness for that.

If she’s on to something, if every psychosis and physical ailment is attributable to the action of this “ingestable poison” then I look forward to repeated replication of results in peer reviewed journals. In the meantime, let’s close with this, maybe my favourite of the black helicopters quotes:

Before I wrote the book, I contacted all the “right” people; I called the FDA, the NIMH, and other federal and state agencies about my findings. But not one person listened, perhaps because most everyone ingests caffeine and caffeine has depreciated intellect and comprehension skills, or perhaps because people own stock in caffeine, or have an interest in the pharmaceutical companies.

Yes! Curses! It’s all those people with their stock in caffeine! And the pharmaceutical industries! They’re an easy target! Except that none of them has any ownership of caffeine because it’s an easy to synthesize generic. One reason results pointing to its preventative effect on various cancers will probably never go through proper FDA trials is that no pharma company has an incentive to fund research into something that people can get in a cup of coffee – but SURELY they are somehow pulling the strings behind the curtain.

http://www.welcometothedancecaffeineallergy.com

Moderation or none at all is key to safe health and brain function.