Glagha posted:

I mostly just take issue with food fads promoting misinformation and bad science to the general public. I don't particularly care who eats bread, I mean it's high in carbs so whatever, but I don't like it meaning that even some meat products now say "gluten free" on them promoting the perception that it's a spooky scary food word and it's bad for you.

Vanagoon posted:

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2016/12/01/blue-leds-confuse-brain.aspx

Glagha posted:

I mostly just take issue with food fads promoting misinformation and bad science to the general public. I don't particularly care who eats bread, I mean it's high in carbs so whatever, but I don't like it meaning that even some meat products now say "gluten free" on them promoting the perception that it's a spooky scary food word and it's bad for you.

Gumbel2Gumbel posted:

My god there is some bad food knowledge in this thread

1) Celiac is not an allergy

2) Gluten free means is has been certified to not contain gluten.

Even naturally gluten free stuff can become not gluten free due to cross contamination during production and shipping. This happens a lot in trucks that ship more than one type of product. There are other things like crop rotated fields for oats for example, where oats are grown in the same fields or near wheat fields and it gets mixed in so even though oats don't contain gluten in a vacuum, they do on the shelf.

Premade food for something dumb like lime salsa chicken breast or whatever can either contain gluten products. Same with sliced deli meats. That's why some meats are labelled.

Also having a reaction is AWFUL. It's like having food poisoning, a sunburn, and the flu all at once. It fucks you up for a day minimum. It is not a tummy ache.

evil_bunnY posted:

However, using the State Data System (SDS) from Florida, Maryland, Missouri, and Pennsylvania, a statistically significant 7% reduction in risk for relevant (including crash subtypes presumably affected by DRLs, such as opposite-direction) nonfatal crashes was identified, and DRL-equipped vehicles were associated with 28% fewer pedestrian fatalities

brah can you not read

Volcott posted:

Would PCBs be considered the current age's asbestos, or the future's asbestos? We already know it's poo poo, but we haven't even scraped the surface when it comes to remediation.

Powershift posted:

Don't worry, there are already guys out there grinding them up in their back yard and running it through a sluice box to recover the gold and then just throwing what's left in the garbage.

edit: it appears you're referring to a different thing with the same acronym?

Volcott posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polychlorinated_biphenyl

Powershift posted:

It would seem that's already being treated with a similar respect as asbestos, especially after having been marketed as asbestol

also, trying to look that up, i found this.

http://www.hannasherbshop.com/shop/hanna/asbestos-asbestol-chem-vibropathictm.html

i really don't know what the gently caress.

Improbable Lobster posted:

That's just good old quack "medicine." It's almost definitely just water, Homeopathy believes that you can make medicine by diluting substances beyond the point where the mixture is entirely water and then shaking it a bunch.

Bubblyblubber posted:

But if the twisted pairs prevent interference, why do IT people freak out if you suggest putting a power cable parallel to a an ethernet cable in a conduit?

Improbable Lobster posted:

That's just good old quack "medicine." It's almost definitely just water, Homeopathy believes that you can make medicine by diluting substances beyond the point where the mixture is entirely water and then shaking it a bunch.

Improbable Lobster posted:

That's just good old quack "medicine." It's almost definitely just water, Homeopathy believes that you can make medicine by diluting substances beyond the point where the mixture is entirely water and then shaking it a bunch.

Powershift posted:

Actually, if you read it, it's 10% gran alcohol in water, which is "Electro magnetically attuned to a specific frequency, 6x potency."

Powershift posted:

Actually, if you read it, it's 10% gran alcohol in water, which is "Electro magnetically attuned to a specific frequency, 6x potency."

That's obviously science, those are science words.

Kind of a shame it has to ride the coat-tails of good products like asbestos and asbestol.

Spatial posted:

Cool stairs in that dude's house.

Platystemon posted:

Platystemon posted:

Platystemon posted:

Here’s a similar set of stairs that doesn’t threaten to kill someone.

Phanatic posted:

Did you seriously just quote something from Mercola? Christ, if that twisted gently caress of an anti-vax snake-oil salesman tells you sun is going to rise in the east tomorrow you should bet against it being true.

Remember kids, HIV doesn't cause AIDS. We know because Joe Mercola says so. And eating algae is the cure!

Crazy Ted posted:

Looking back on things, it's kind of amazing that everyone born from about 1935 to 1960 didn't die of some kind of cancer:

GPF posted:

That just sets up my billion dollar idea:

Imagine saving your family from burning alive...
Imagine making your business fire-proof...
Imagine all this in a simple, organic, free-range, life-affirming, crystal clear liquid...

Introducing Homeopathic Asbestos! The 10x dilution is even more powerful! Buy two, buy thousands!

Collateral Damage posted:

It's more of a theoretical risk of interference. All our fixed installation is done with shielded twisted pair, because why not. The extra cost of shielded vs unshielded cable was minuscule in comparison to the cost of the installation anyway.

Yawgmoth posted:

But is it also gluten free and organic?

Zesty Crab Legs posted:

How long until they use or for storage, or just stand on it until it collapses?

GPF posted:

um...SURE! It's also vegan and feminist...aaaaand...um. Alkaline!!

How many gallons can I put you down for? Each month? Sure, we can do that.

Phanatic posted:

Specifically, that's a 6X mixture. That means that the active ingredient was mixed with 10 times the volume of water.

Then a bit of that 1:10 solution was withdrawn, and mixed with 10 times the volume of water. Then a bit of *that* solution was withdrawn and mixed with 10 times the volume of water. And so on. So a 6X homeopathic solution has the original 'active' ingredient at a dilution of 1:10^6. That's a one ounce bottle, so the entire bottle has 28 micrograms of asbestos in it. Assuming they actually bothered to use asbestos in the first place, as opposed to whatever dirt they found lying around on the floor, or nothing.

That's actually a pretty high concentration for homeopathic garbage. Those idiots believe that the *weaker* the concentration the *stronger* the medicine, so frequently you'll see dilutions so extreme that literally not a single atom or molecule of the 'active' ingredient remains. You see, the water molecules somehow remember the substances they used to be in contact with and retain and pass those properties along.

Homeopaths are idiots.

spog posted:

I genuinely am curious as to what 'harmless' material we currently use is going to be found out to be deadly in the future.

In the way that we go 'holy poo poo, they used asbestos in schools!!', in 40 years, will they be saying 'I can't believe that they used paper every day!' or 'can you believe they ate chicken, what morons!' ?

spog posted:

I genuinely am curious as to what 'harmless' material we currently use is going to be found out to be deadly in the future.

In the way that we go 'holy poo poo, they used asbestos in schools!!', in 40 years, will they be saying 'I can't believe that they used paper every day!' or 'can you believe they ate chicken, what morons!' ?

Yawgmoth posted:

Now imagine walking falling down those drunk.