I think you would be very interested in reading The Fourth Turning.
When I first heard about that impact crater I thought I had been vindicated, but as you said it is still not seen being as causing the Gulf.
I believe that as the world has become less violent (believe it or not!) humans in the western world have become more mentally unstable and that there is a direct-ish correlation. Basically humans who have all of their basic needs met have turned inward into a destructive emotional world. This I believe is partly due to the lack of physical work we need to do to survive and also the social messages we are bombarded with in a capitalist, pro-consumption society.
Also, I firmly believe that social media creates addiction and dependance and while it will never be proven to be as harmful as drug addiction, it will be better understood in years to come that communication primarily online and/or/through social media results in fundamental malaise and depression/despondency.
My theory is that childhood ADD, is caused by TV sets, (too much of the wrong stimulation) and too many toys. I think the day will come when new parents are directed to keep the TV off until the child is 6yrs old, and never own more, than their age, in toys, at a time, so they will learn to focus, concentrate, create. I think, someday, they’ll come to determine, like language, if you’re not exposed to these things before 6yrs of age, you’ll struggle with ADD the rest of your life.
( Can you imagine the effect on the birthrate. “No Tv? Let’s wait a little longer, Hon.”)
All side effects of perscription drugs are built into them for the sole purpose of selling more perscription drugs. The drug industry does not give a damn about people, only about profits, and this is the easiest way to increase drug taking.
This is at least partly bunk and shows a poor understanding of living with ADD. I hope none of your close friends or family have it, for their sake.
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and fibromyalgia are just smoldering tissue level hypothyroidism, and will likely improve with supplementation of T3 (note: not levothyroxine), even though blood levels of this hormone may be normal.
The virtual epidemic of endocrine diseases in this country is due in large part to genetically modified crops and flame retardant fabrics (there is some evidence the flame retardance may be responsible for hyperthyroidism in cats, but I doubt it will be definitively proven).
Life experiences, for each individual, are created as part of a multi-player RPG controlled by our “higher selves.” Players are occasionally “resurrected,” and this accounts for feelings of deja vu or the sense that something happened that, well, didn’t. What happens to each player is not necessarily experienced by other players in the game. The reason this is all occurring is so that “we” can experience the physical world. I don’t really know how to articulate this to make sense to anyone else, but there you go.
-I have noticed, at work, that there seems to be a link between chronic pain and having had a shitty life. I think some people internalize all the crap that happened to them and it manifests through physical pain. It’s almost like conversion disorder, however most chronic pain patients actually have physical reasons for their pain as well, so it’s not purely psychological.
-I’ve also noticed a it seems that disproportionate amount of fibromyalgia patients have had hysterectomies, making me think FM might be at least partially hormonal.
-I think a high sugar intake can make depression symptoms worse.
-America’s obesity epidemic is caused by our tendency to put high fructose corn syrup in EVERYTHING. If that shit was banned obesity rates would probably drop. Unfortunately it tastes great and it’s cheap, so it’s not going anywhere.
Dragons were actually a few different species of neotenous salamanders which grew to crocodile size, and which were hunted to extinction millenia ago.
The Boson Higgs particle: I think the weight is on some other plane of existence unobservable to us.
Dark energy: I think these are two planes of existence that are colliding into each other. The laws of physics that govern them only have about 0.000000001% in common. (Just made that number up.). Which would explain why we don’t don’t see dark energy all around us. But you can if you look out into the vastness of space.
Kind of like cellophane sheets. One by itself is see through. But put a thousand sheet together and now it looks all white and blurry.
Meh, that’s fine with me as long as I can get me some good soap and Ikea 
About cars and obesity…I weighed 105 lbs. from age 14 until I got my first car ten years later. I got by going places riding my bike or taking the bus. After I got a car I started putting on a few pounds every year. Coincidence? Just part of the aging process? (The fact that I drove us all to McDonald’s for lunch in my car probably figured in.;))
You’re a little bit right.
Personally, I think Oswald was the lone assassin. No conspiracy. However, if there had been a conspiracy, I’d bet money that LBJ was involved in some manner.
Another theory I posted a while back: The Elves killed Isuldur. Not a modicum of evidence in the Professor’s writings AFAIK, but still, it makes sense, darn it!
The vast majority of history through late antiquity is bunk. Honestly, the textual support for what we “know” about figures like Alexander the Great and Charlemagne is much more flimsy than most ancient/early medieval historians would like to admit. And let’s not even start with Egyptian narrative history.
I don’t *really *believe the above, but I’ll admit that I’ve rolled my eyes a few times teaching ancient history.
I think this might be true for some people. Me, I notice, if I go on a low-carb diet, my depression symptoms get worse after about a week. My sister had a similar experience with a low-fat diet. I think diet does affect depression, but not in the same way for everybody. Or maybe it’s that depression is a symptom brought on by many different causes (kind of like “flu-like symptoms”).
This may of be interest: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Chronology_%28Fomenko%29
This is my SEGO theory: String Theory is bunk. Inflation is bunk. There are no such things as Dark Matter or Dark Energy. These will all be revealed to be convenient assumptions on the class of phlogiston or the interstellar ether.
There is Something Else Going On ™ in physics and cosmology that we don’t yet, or possibly can’t, understand.
-Something will happen in December 2012, but it will be entirely human-caused. This doesn’t mean that the Mayans’ “prediction” will come true, it will simply be a self-fulfilling prophecy (people will behave badly because they think the world is going to end).
-There has to be something to this whole “ghosts” thing. The vast majority of ghost stories are likely complete bunk, but for the remaining .1%, I think there has to be something else going on. There are some scientists who think infrasound may be the cause of people’s hallucinations, and I think that’s promising, but I don’t think that’s the whole story. Perhaps there’s something going on in a plane of existence that we cannot otherwise perceive…but whatever it is, it has nothing to do with the dead.
-Every mythical creature (dragons, fairies, bigfoot, etc.) has some grain of truth to it.
That humans in the developed countries are having more health problems (allergies, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, depression, autism etc) due to two major reasons. First we keep infants and small children much too sanitize (see the master’s statements on allergies). We should have them out in dirt (and yes putting it in their mouths).
The second is closer to the OP wish being much more private and off the wall. Because so many people in the last 75ish years have been saved by modern medicine and then they went on to reproduced children, we have many health problems that before would have been culled by the grandparents of the people with those problems not living to reproduce. Thus it is a good thing for the human species, while bad for individual humans, that we will soon have drug resistant bacteria. It means healthier humans in future generations.