Garlic is a very effective antibiotic - but only when it's raw, cooked garlic doesn't work. Garlic juice was used in the trenches in the first world war for fighting infection. I don't know about the other stuff, but the garlic on its own would kill MRSA in some circumstances.

What makes you think that? The Its potential energy at the top of its upward trajectory is not that much different to what it was when it came out of the gun - and it will be pretty much the same when it gets back down to the same level it was fired from (thanks to gravity, with a small effect of wind resistance).

People are frequently killed by bullets being fired into the air - as described in this article.

Maybe. But when you miss and the bullet comes back down and kills someone, you won't be very popular.

Even if you manage to hit it, the bullet and the debris could still do some serious harm.

Be like Hitler, you mean? That didn't exactly end well, did it?

Maybe we just need to consider sharing the work around more fairly. The current trend is opposite to that - with more and more workers doing unreasonably long hours. It's time for governments to legislate a maximum working week of 30 hours.

Few of the top third, you mean. Rich people rarely seem to consider themselves rich - they often complain about how hard they've got it and they always seem to want more. But by any sane standard the top third are extremely rich - whether you compare them to the bottom third or to the top third 50 years ago.

They certainly have far far more than their fair share of the worlds resources.

I won't care at all once i'm dead!

Except there's no chance of it going anywhere.

Why? It's not like you'd be able to sit back and reminisce about it afterwards.

I don't know why you're stunned. The medical industry's not very smart. There's a lot of things that seem like they should be obvious to anyone with half a brain, but which don't get picked up by the medical industry for decades. They're also almost entirely driven by what makes profits for the pharmaceutical industry. Over prescription of antibiotics anyone?

Another example is biopsy. It's been glaringly obvious to me for decades that the worst thing you could do to a suspected cancer is to chop into it - but chopping into it (biopsy) is the first thing quacks normally do when they suspect a lump could be carcinogenic. And, guess what, research has finally found that biopsy (along with other standard procedures) can lead to metastasis (Juratli et al 2014). And it's usually the metastasis that kills people. It doesn't bear thinking about how many people have been killed by the so-called "treatment".

In a couple of decades, maybe someone will think of doing some research into the role of fluid retention in obesity - unless they already have, but you didn't bother citing it.

Reference
Juratli, M A, Sarimollaoglu, M, Siegel, ER, Nedosekin, DA, Galanzha, EI, Suen, JYand Zharov, VP 2014, 'Real-time monitoring of circulating tumor cell release during tumor manipulation using in vivo photoacoustic and fluorescent flow cytometry', Head Neck, 36, 1207–1215. doi: 10.1002/hed.23439

Fair enough. It happens sometimes!

Citation? And what part does fluid retention play in this? None, according to your theory. I think you're wrong.

If you're so smart, explain the thermodynamics of fluid retention.

Of course, if you were really as smart as you think you are, you wouldn't post a/c.

Your medal's in the mail.

Have you considered the possibility that at least some of the excess weight is fluid rather than fat? The body seems to retain fluid in response to conact with environmental contaminants. In my case (and i'm not really fat), i get fluid retention from breathing in the fumes pumped out by computer cooling fans - presumably mainly flame retardants. It has other effects than just fluid retention (cough, headache, etc) and different computers have different effects - presumably because they use different classes of flame retardants - but the fluid retention is quite noticeable and can happen quickly.

All electronic equipment seems to be drowned in flame retardants before it leaves the factory, as does furniture, carpets, etc. Flame retardants are volatile organic compounds which may also be persistent pollutants, and have been linked to an array of different health impacts. Some have been banned (e.g., polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and dibrominated phenyl ethers (DBEs) - banned by the EU in about 2005) but they just keep replacing them with other ones, which have unknown effects. Brominated flame retardants seem to be being phased out because of health concerns, and replaced with fluorinated ones- which i supect may prove to be worse.I believe brominated flame retardants were developed to replace chlorinated ones - again because of health concerns.

Anyway, i think fluid retention caused by environmental toxins merits investigation to determine its role (if any) in obesity.

Maybe, but i doubt it's as simple as that. I think the dogma that obesity = excess fat is severely confounding our understanding of this issue. One thing i never see discussed anywhere is the contribution to obesity made by fluid retention - which i suspect is considerable.

Everyone seems to assume that excess flesh is fat, but that's not necessarily the case. The body can retain fluid in response to environmental contaminants of various types and most people live in ever more toxic environments. If you seal people into houses with electronic equipment, furnishings, carpets, etc, all of which have been drowned in flame retardants - volatile organic compounds which have been linked to many different health impacts - it seems likely that at least some of them will end up with some degree of fluid retention as a result.

Antibiotics flame retardants, and shit food are probably the three main contributors to obesity. Wrong gut bacteria is one product of antibiotics use.

Yes there is - so a new bunch of parasites can skim off some of your money.

The cost of the new system won't come out of the profits of the retailers - it'll come out of your pocket. Or phone account or whatever.