Holy smokes. The article was a steaming pile of garbage. Here are a few highlights that stood out to me:
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Then he rattled off a laundry list of “modern assailants,” including cellphones, and a list of problems including autism and erectile dysfunction that he believes may be related.
Rewind the clock a few years and he could rattle off a list of modern assailants, including the telegraph, and a list of problems including distemper, smallpox, and the fits, that he believes may be related. Unbelievable.
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Greenfield, who considers himself a “biohacker,” is a big believer in stem cells. He’s had them in his knee and hip to help him recover from an injury, which he said was successful. He’s also injected them into his own arm as a performance enhancer at home.
That Greenfield, a so-called "guru", would think that it's prudent or even interesting to do something like this to improve his arm performance is mind bogglingly stupid.
pacificfit wrote:
Three or four days after the procedure, he said, it was “almost like it grew.”
Almost like the procedure worked, almost like it was for real? Almost like he could tell? But not quite?
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...Greenfield, a fitness guru...
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...Greenfield is a cult figure among fitness fanatics, a guru...
I get tired of people like this being labeled "guru" -- a word which to me should represent prudence, intelligence, wisdom, and learning, when in reality he's not only regurgitating every conspiratorial pseudo-science nonsense notion that crosses in front of his view, but he's doing some very dangerous and unwise self-treatment in the name of "going from good to great".
-Eric