" (hint: public-key encryption)"
hint: won't work in any practical manner.

FEAR the technology! Its' gunna getcha! It might invade ten privacy you don't actually have on public roads!

" Your body absorbs until it has what it needs"
yes.. but what it has evolved to need, and what it actually needs in a modern society are no longer the same thing.
Not a lot of famine in the US, for example.

" Non-sugar Carbs, via calories, are why we are fat"
problem solved, thank /. poster!

Protip: It's more complicated than that.

"The idea fat people are hooked on sweets is BS."
no, it isn't. IN fact sugar can trigger a Dopamine release. In some people as much as some recreational drugs do.
  So people can be hooked on sweets.

"They are hooked on higher-calorie, denser-calorie fatty foods."
that can ALSO be true.

"I just read an asinine study the other day that incorrectly associated sweeter foods with. higher calorie intake"
that can very well be true. I don't know what study you are talking about, so I don't know the specific item they where talking about.

You can't gain more weight then calories and water.

You started paying attention to what you eat and limited intake, and exercised.

" So you eat more of it."
stop putting it in your mouth. Problem solved.

Citation?

Are you sure? the only info I can find comes from one woman making a claim. and most of that article was paywalled.

It smells of typical soda conspiracy nonsense.
References I found all link to here:
http://www.boston.com/news/loc...

Its becasue it's nonsense, and you are trolling.

" But the more significant concern is that HFCS laden foods and drinks cause one to crave more since the HFCS interferes with the "I've had enough" mechanisms that normally govern food/drink intake. "
False

"And another concern that bears repeating is that HFCS puts an increased burden on the liver and the blood glucose homeostatic mechanisms that are adapted to handling normal table sugars."

Nope.

" my personal concern is that HFCS on the label is a marker I can use to avoid foods and drinks that predispose me to exercise induced asthma problems."
Does it? or is it a bias?

Pop quiz, hot shot?
Why do those subsidies exist? what did they replace?
You don't know, do you?

That study has be taken apart many, many times.
Rats genetically engineered for something, show the thing they were genetically engineered to show. Must be the test.

Bad controls, be methodology, bad samples. Perhaps you should get a more scientific perspective?

No, the SPECULATION is that it's due to gut bacteria.

They don't even know if it's a real effect. It was 4 out of 7 people, and not with the best controls.

HFCS is real sugar. It comes from corn instead of beets or cane. You're body doesn't know the difference.

7.

Nothing to see here at this time.

Conflicts between sects is not unknown in other religions too.

For example look at the European wars between Christian sects just prior to the Enlightenment.

I think the key thing here is that Islamic countries for one reason or another never went through a similar transition towards rationalism and individualism. They are still ruled by a way of thought that western culture started abandoning 350 years ago.

I hope we don't get dragged back that way. Fundamentalism is ultimately I think the greatest enemy of human progress.