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There are significant lobbies now trying to put both statins and lithium into the tap water.


> These are just a few of the images we've recorded. And you can see, it wasn't what we thought. There's been no war here and no terraforming event. The environment is stable. It's the Pax. The G-23 Paxilon Hydrochlorate that we added to the air processors. It was supposed to calm the population, weed out aggression. Well, it works. The people here stopped fighting. And then they stopped everything else. They stopped going to work, they stopped breeding, talking, eating. There's 30 million people here, and they all just let themselves die.


Wouldn't statins lower cholesterol in large populations of people who need it to, e.g., produce hormones? I can't imagine anyone wanting to inhibit the production of sex hormones (testosterone, estradiol, etc.) in children.


Lithium based on studies that show that areas with higher lithium levels in the water tend to have less crime?


Sources?


My vote is for LSD.


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When did you first become aware of this?


He's quoting Dr. Strangelove.


So is the person you replied to.


Statins on a wide scale could make for the single greatest life expectancy increase we could get anywhere...that would be awesome.


The effect of statins is incredibly modest at best: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/articl... . Anyone telling you otherwise is doing so because of financial incentive, not from following the actual science.


I hear that every few years from press releases written by people who sell statins.


Doesn't make it wrong.


Not wrong, merely irrelevant.


Statins are dangerous... they block cholesterol, which incidentally, is fundamental, crucial, even, to the formation of both cell membranes and innumerable important hormones.

They are no solution at all. Just a fad.




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