Twenty-three days has offered me a look at myself.  Besides learning that my blogging skills are limited (have trouble with links, pictures, videos, audios,replies and a litany of other things) I did find I deal  mainly in logic.

This has advantages and disadvantages.  An advantage is I can return to a fixed starting point.  I can change my thoughts and accept new ideas.  The disadvantage is there are so few people who are logical.  They deal in emotion.  Emotion shuns facts.

My third major employment as a paramedic fit perfectly with this thinking.  I remained very cool and logical under often dire circumstances.  Then for 31 years I practiced forensic neuropsychology that gave me a view of life that few get to see.  I really do know something about life, death and the way we think.

I know you cannot discuss rational things with an irrational person.  You can utilize techniques to maneuver them in a position so you can do your job.  But they cannot change that basic personality.  Likewise my run to logic also does not change.   I do get emotional but can return to a place of safety.  I believe that illogical thinkers do not have a place of safety.

I have a list of errors from little league to things I can’t believe I’ve done.  If I could, I would change those errors but I can’t, so I logically move on with a warehouse of personal knowledge that can fill books.

There are issues I want to discuss but the topics are forbidden in today’s culture.  So I have to figure out a way to bring these topics up that will prevent the emotion of the reader/listener from taking hold.

This is my goal.

This is my goal.

I DON’T KNOW!  I have so much information and it is contradictory and emotional.

The science articles have a preponderance of information giving studies of successful vaccinations, myself included in those numbers.  The opposers say the scientists have been bought.

There is one researcher who claims vaccinations coincide with the numbered increases in autism.  She also puts GMOs on the list of harmful ingestibles that are correlated with autism. My question is simple, “Is it GMO s or vaccines?”

Occam’s razor plays a significant part in my hesitancy on this issue..  If you have a choice between a simple explanation or a complex explanation, choose the simple one.

When I asked people about their thoughts on vaccines the responses centered around complexity.  For example, when I asked for explanations I received information about chem. trails, cloud seeding, bank fraud and FEMA camps.  They needed these alternatives to support their feelings. (I chose the word feeling because I have come to the conclusion that being wrong is a feeling.)

The other frequent response I get is the vaccines have aluminum and mercury in them.   Mercury left the vaccines in 2002 but the replacement stabilizer can be considered worse – aluminum.  “You know aluminum causes Alzheimer’s” I heard this several times.  One person who told me that also sent me an article about a guy who ate a Cessna.  If he  gest autism or Alzheimer’s this will sway my opinion.

I read an article by a science reporter who wrote a parody on the use of vaccines.  I use the parody in my class on logical fallacies.

Brass Tax time.  If my grandchild was faced with my son having to make the call I’d say “no, don’t do it.”  My son never listens and would do the opposite just to show me.

My mother had a way of connecting wise sayings that made the world make sense.  When I was little my mother was asked by a man on the street interviewer where she would hide a national secret.  Without hesitating she said, “I’d tell the school board.” At the time that statement made no sense.  If you ever dealt with a school board you know what that means.

My mother’s philosophy went a step further to add if you want to hide something put it “under their nose.”  I’m still trying to put salt on a bird’s tail and now she has me looking under my nose.  Her wisdom haunts me more now than as a child.

Once while scuba diving I got caught in the rush of a zillion fish.  The excitement of all these fish bumping my body proved exhilarating.  When I mentioned this to my mother she said, “I wonder what they were escaping from?”  Her wisdom also could be humbling.

So as I review the study of my beliefs I am looking under my nose.

I learned that the truth and fact are not the same.  For example, A kills B.  Yet we go to court to try A for this crime and we discover that A’s crime occurred at the behest of another person’s intent.

Truth is what we believe and fact is what actually took place.  So your truth can be different than my truth.  You saw A pull a weapon and I saw A take out a Snicker’s bar.  Neither of us is lying, we are both telling the truth as we perceived it.  We both take polygraphs and pass.  However B fell over dead and it seems unlikely her died by a Snicker’s bar.

So how do we get to what really happened?  We collect and analyze information that we know to be factual.  We change the word weapon and Snicker’s bar to “something was pulled out of the pocket”.   If there is a chocolate stain on the person we tend to accept the truth of the Snicker person, if there is a knife wound our belief shifts and so on.

I do not know the facts about GMOs because no one presents them.  They tell me their truths.   Granted they are emotional and interesting but not supported by facts.

So I search for facts and find all the avenues to facts blocked.  Let’s start with a simple fact.  The labeling of GMO s in the food we eat is blocked.  Simple enough, we follow the money to see how something so simple can be prevented.  So at the very least I am suspicious of the government representatives let alone the advertising dollars and campaign contributions.

Then I turn to the scientists and hear more truths but few facts.  Most important is the lack of research that will put an end to this debate.  In the search I find conspiracy theories, pay offs, schemes and incompetence, but no facts.  Conspiracy theorists have one thing in common, they can’t connect the facts to support their theory, but it sells media.

In 1947 there was a report that cigarette smoking proved a health hazard.  The battle over those findings took over 30 years to uncover what study after study revealed.  Again follow the money and you find tobacco states and lobbyists and doctors and representatives denying the obvious.  In fact, hiding or blocking the facts from the light of day.

There is only one fact that haunts me.  It comes from a researcher who is profiting from the information and using the same logical fallacy as the GMO companies;  the rise in certain illnesses coinciding with the rise in GMO use.  As important as those number of illness are to me, I need to see the numbers on the GMO side.  For example, how much GMO food was available back then and consumed.  But those numbers are not available.  Yet the researcher stretches one known statistic to coincide with another.

Seems like somebody is hiding something, but that does not prove the researchers claim.  It does stop one from looking for added proof.

GMO, seed banks, world domination are bandied about and there is only one thing I can do.  Write about it and vote.

My writing is unemotional and I do not want to claim that all illnesses are the result of GMOs, just can’t get the facts to back up the truth.

I have learned much about myself and the way people think.  I start researching a topic in the morning and next thing I know it is time for bed.  I found things about things I didn’t know existed.

I have held back my GMO and vaccination discussion because I found a well educated researcher who has a very compelling argument which I tend to agree with.  I got stuck on her using a logical fallacy in her explanation.  (Heck, I did three blogs on logical fallacies I may as well use them.)  It doesn’t mean she’s wrong but I get suspicious when the researchers use the same arguments as the alleged perpetrators.

As I am reviewing my research, the argument that keeps crossing my path is “this can be changed at the ballot box.” The people in the U.S. have found a problem and for some reason will not solve it.  The way people think is the interesting component of all my blogs.  The train in the tunnel is heading straight at you and you see it, identify it and DO NOTHING.

Ah, there my friends, lies the problem.