Hulamoon inquired:
Bill, I gotta ask ..... what on earth do you take for your blood pressure?
My blood pressure is so low that several blood banks wouldn't let me donate blood.
I spent the 1980's and 1990's monitoring, exposing and opposing lies by cigarette companies (about the health hazards of inhaling tobacco smoke, and marketing to youth). My work then was influential in mobilizing support to enact smoking bans in workplaces, sharply reduce cigarette marketing to youth, and increase cigarette tax rates, as well as helping to convince attorneys, State AGs and the US DOJ to sue cigarette companies.
For the past decade, I've been monitoring, exposing and opposing lies by anti tobacco extremists who work for drug companies, for drug company funded health, medical and anti tobacco groups, and for federal, state and local governments.
Not sure why I've been obsessed with exposing and confronting lies and liars, but it started when I was little child.
In Kindergarten I upset many classmates when I insisted that Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the tooth fairy didn't exist.
When I was twelve, I was thrown out of Sunday school and my parents church for challenging the existence of God, the Devil, Heaven, Hell and other religious doctrines, and for convincing other students to similarly challenge irrational claims made by the Sunday school teacher and the minister.
When I was in high school, after I challenged my math teacher (in front of all other students) about an answer I gave on a test (that she marked as wrong, that I insisted was correct), she doubled down by challenging me to go ask the head of the math department to find out who was correct. After the head of the math department agreed with my answer, my math teacher (who I humiliated in front of her boss) wasn't pleased but acquiesced and gave me 100 on the test.
And when I was in college, I almost inherited a group of Hare Krishna devotees after I publicly challenged their leader's assertions about Hindu doctrines on reincarnation. After the devotees started staring at me like I was their new leader, I knew it was time to leave.
Guess I'm good at identifying inaccurate claims and liars, and publicly exposing and confronting them.
