Leave it to the experts to screw things up!
On the pitfalls and the blind spots of being civilized (a collection of news)
This story is a collection of news that caught my eye. The common theme is the consequences of trusting confident “expert advice” over one’s peasant gut.
The first one caught my eye because I wrote it. :) It’s an expanded version of the tonsil story I wrote earlier, published the other day by Dr. Mercola.
I also looked further into the whole topic of the toilet-to-glass pipeline. Conclusion: I was doing fine before I learned what I learned in the past few days about the sanitation in New York and elsewhere, about water treatment facilities, sewage systems, industry trends, and so on. I now miss my innocence. Only recently, was I able to look at my kitchen faucet without thinking about the processes and the pipes. I hope that I will be able to do it again one day…. :-)
A proper longer article is on the way but here are a few tidbits:
In the UK, a new class action lawsuit was just filed against the water companies that allegedly had been releasing undeclared raw sewage into lakes, riv…
