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        Superfoods aren’t even the worst kind of snake oil. They’re ultimately not directly harmful.

        When radium was discovered, scammers advertised it as a cure-all: if radiation kills healthy cells, a little radiation must surely kill only weak, diseased cells. Radium was put in everything. Face creams. Toothpaste. Butter. Underwear. Men were told to strap radium to their nuts to improve their stamina. Radithor was just vials of water with radium in it. It was an insane time.

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        As a white person, and an American, let me assure you that we can turn anything into a mystical ultra healthy superfood.

        Reality be damned.

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          If it has vitamins that fast food doesn’t have, then technically in America it can be qualified as a superfood.

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    I believe removing all the neutrons from your house will win you the cancer any% world record.

    Or death. Well, either way, death.

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      Randall Munro has a recent quote about being hit by a sun laser. “You don’t really die from it, you become physics.” I think this would apply in this situation.

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        The way I heard it was:

        You wouldn’t really die of anything in the traditional sense. You would just stop being biology and start being physics.

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      Hmm interesting.

      But the CDC website was recently updated to say that we can’t say that vaccines don’t cause autism because there is not enough definitive research that proves they don’t, we need to follow new science.

      So since we haven’t been able to remove all the neutrons in someone’s home and prove it would always violently disintegrate all matter we can’t say for sure it would and people should be free to do what they want until those dumb science dudes can prove it. New science says so

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    Wait, nickel? Is that one true? Does that include things like stainless steel?

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      I don’t think you should take anything on that list seriously. You know, it being a random screenshot on a meme on the internet and all.

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        Well, that’s why I asked if anyone knew about it. Searching for it actually returns some information about its toxicity, but it seems to be in scenarios different from our household items