Comments on: “Dihydrogen monoxide is coming out of your tap!”

By: OBQuiet

OBQuiet — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 01:59:35 +0000

Blackfoot,

That doesn’t even hint at the true dangers!
http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html

By: OBQuiet

OBQuiet — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 01:57:10 +0000

Matts,
Your well stated rant made me think of this:
http://evil-comic.com/archive/20080726.html

( I just realized that it is not normal to be able to recall 5 yr old comics on demand)

By: Harold

Harold — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 23:15:09 +0000

Good thing they didn’t reveal the real threat- hydrogen-hydroxide!

By: Blackfoot

Blackfoot — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 14:55:10 +0000

Since the constituents of “dihydrogen monoxide” are demonstrably hazardous (hydrogen in the case of the Hindenburg and oxygen in the case of the Apollo astronauts) then it is only reasonable that the combination of the two would be doubly hazardous. Right?

By: peter

peter — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 11:09:27 +0000

Proof that the only thing more stupid than the general public are government officials.

By: Jim Roberts

Jim Roberts — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 04:24:12 +0000

I feel sorry for the citizens of the area. If saying that” dihydrogen monoxide” coming out of water taps constitutes a water quality “hoax”, the imbeciles in charge do not know the meaning of either. Hint: if it’s true it is not a hoax.

By: Bill Poser

Bill Poser — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 06:20:58 +0000

You see a similar ignorance of basic chemistry in campaigns against fluoridation of water. It is claimed that fluorine or some compound thereof is toxic, although these are not what is added to water, and without consideration of the fact that the same substance may be neutral or even beneficial in one concentration and toxic at a higher concentration.

By: Hugo S. Cunningham

Hugo S. Cunningham — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 02:40:18 +0000

In the 1970s, local TV news carried an April Fool’s report that Blue Hill, an innocuous 600 foot hill 10 miles south of Boston, was having a spectacular volcanic eruption. Some people complained that they had been panicked and the two reporters responsible lost their jobs. I sympathized with the reporters; anyone with an elementary knowledge of geology would know the report was ridiculous, and anyone with doubt could simply open his door and look. But there has long been a strict standard that TV news is never to risk false panic even inadvertently (unless a member of the plaintiff’s bar stands to profit).

By: MattS

MattS — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 00:53:41 +0000

An excellent example of the rampant chemo-phobia in modern western societies.

RANT
To all the chemo-phobes out there, please note the following.

There is nothing inherently artificial about chemicals. Everything you can see, feel and smell. your body, every plant and every animal on the face of the earth, even the very air that surrounds you is in its entirety made up of chemicals.

Grow up and get over it.
/RANT

By: Anonymous Nicholas

Anonymous Nicholas — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:04:29 +0000

I’d have to hear the broadcast to understand. If their statements were factual then truth is an absolute defense. If they were saying that you shouldn’t drink your tap water because it is poisonous, then that is not true and they might deserve a slap on the wrist. Still, sheesh, it seems like a minor issue to use a very old, very popular, widely known joke which is easily understood by anyone with literally a sixth-grade education *or* access to an internet search engine.