My Strange Addiction, Indeed.

Watching 'My Strange Addiction'. Wow, this urine-drinking lady has bought into a variety of fallacies. She drinks urine because she has false (and wildly outdated) ideas about cancer 'cures', erroneous ideas about removing body 'toxins' and thinks she has 'special knowledge' not understood by the medical establishment.

This show is a glaring example of the effects of being ignorant, uncritical and incurious. There is real harm to those who lack critical-thinking skills, and this is just one of thousands of examples. It's one thing to be temporarily duped, but the recipe for staying duped is to lack the skills to question one's own ideas.

If nothing else, learn to be a critical-thinker, because in a real sense it's learning how to learn. Knowledge is far more than rote memory and it's not a social-exercise in compromise between opposing ideas. Critical-thinking requires the ability to question one's own ideas with rigor and being willing to follow the evidence where it leads.

If not, you could end up drinking pee and thinking it's good for you, and that's fucking stupid.

--