Showing posts with label 2019. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2019. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Solomon Asch's famous experiment, showing that people bow to majority pressure, denying their own perceptions, successfully replicates in foreign country. And everybody is a conformist

I was vaguely familiar with the Asch Experiment, how one participant's knowledge, opinion, or understanding of shared reality can be manipulated by the group.  When I worked in a large school district, I saw his all the time.  To shore up consensus on some new program, or new trend, the district would stack a conference or a training program with personnel loyal to the district heads and program lieutenants.  To outsiders, this sounds like a conspiracy theory.  But one brave teacher raised his hand in a conference of about 40 "teachers" and asked bluntly, "How many of you in this room are district plants?"  And either stupidly or naively, a dozen hands went up.

I just had no idea that the Asch Experiment could corral 60% of an audience.  This means, contrary to the video above, that you don't need a majority of the audience to be privy to or participants in the experiment.  It's that powerful.  The cognitive dissonance of your own judgment is enough to change our minds.  And that change doesn't even have to be done with convictions, simply by peer pressure to conform.  I had no idea how powerful that was.  Well, I kind of did.  Look at any organization.  If a rumor is begun about you, and those spreading the rumor placed within it the instruction to commit violence, then that conformity contains a whole new level of concern.

This explains why critical thinking skills are essential for survival.  Too many of us take our life, our health, our wealth, and our survival for granted. 

Wednesday, October 9, 2024

DR. GERRY CURATOLA: Ozone disinfects that deep decay, and the decay kind of sloffs off. Then . . . I'll do what's called a "laser pulp cap." I'll use a little laser light to protect the nerve and then build that tooth back up, and we keep that tooth vital

The host is Lauryn Evarts Bosstick, the guest is Dr. Gerry Curatola, and the show is called The Him and Her Show, Episode 758.

I know that there was a documentary on Netflix, it was called The Root Cause, 2019, and it exposed a lot of things that you're talking about, and it educated the population on a lot of things that you're talking about.  And then it mysteriously disappeared.  It's gone.

00:17.  It was a class action lawsuit by the American Association of Endodontists, and they said it was scaring the public or something ridiculous.  "Netflix Pulls Controversial Documentary that Claims Root Canals Cause Cancer," Anna Almendrala, February 27, 2019.

00:24.  You mean scaring the public into not doing it, so it ruins their money?

00:27.  Well, yes.  I mean, they do, you know, they're protecting the interests of their members, and their members you know they make their living doing this stuff. You know, I hate to say that because getting someone out of pain is, you know, [giving] somebody their life back.

00:41.  Aren't there things that you can do for a root canal naturally, like Dr. Daryl Gioffre and I [Lauryn Evarts Bosstickhave talked about, like taking black seed oil.  He has the black seed oil that I take every day.

00:50.  Yes, and homeopathic.  By the way, in a tooth with deep decay, there are way, way, way too many dentists that are in this mechanical removal of decay, saying like they got a scrub everything out, and then they expose the nerve.  And then they go, "Oh, you know, Lauryn, we got to do a root canal now.  The nerve is exposed, the decay was so deep."  Well, the first thing I do in deep decay, in our offices, is we use ozone.  Ozone disinfects that deep decay, and the decay kind of sloffs off.  Then you get down to the healthy tooth, and then sometimes I'll do what's called a "laser pulp cap."  I'll use a little laser light to protect the nerve.  And then we build that tooth back up, and we keep that tooth vital.  There are way too many root canals that are done like a knee-jerk response.  

PurO3 Ozonated Tooth Cleaning Powder by PromoLife.  This is a powder. 

PurO3 Tooth & Gum Support is comprised of organic, fully ozonated olive oil, ozonated hemp oil, and organic peppermint oil with no fluoride or harmful chemicals.  This product is a gel, which in my opinion has a far-reaching effect on disinfecting.  Just my opinion.