It’s worse than tide pods somehow.
Tide pods was a challenge, a incredibly stupid and lethal one but one that was not presented as anything else than the stupidest dare ever.
This is apparently presented as a health tip (complete with the usual “detox” pseudoscience bullshit). Fuck these assholes.
The idea that drinking bleach has health benefits has been around for a while. There are facebook and youtube “influencers” that peddle this shit in the usual “big pharma doesn’t want you to know this” format.
Internet Comment Etiquette made video making fun of them.
What?!
WHAT!?
Facebook mom groups must be full of trolls or something. How do they come up with this garbage?
How do they come up with this garbage?
people will pay in both cash and attention for the feeling that they know something that ThE NorMieS don’t know. Especially when it comes to medicine, where people are desperate for treatments that a) work and b) are affordable. Once they’re in the group, they get buckets of social approval for agreeing with and going beyond what the group already believes (this is how echo chambers form and radicalize), they get even more social approval for isolating themselves from the non-believers, and if they go against the grain of the group after they’ve isolated themselves they’re completely alone. The presumption that everyone who falls for stuff like this is just an idiot is part of how it perpetuates.
cases of two infants who developed chronic borate intoxication after their mothers repeatedly dipped their pacifiers in a honey-borax solution, thinking the borax was a safe antiseptic (it isn’t).
Wtf
I for one support this trend, and I know for a fact that Charles Darwin would approve.
No argument here. Here’s to hoping that the parents poison themselves first… though sadly, you can be as shitty a parent (or human being in general) as you want and still have as many babies as biologically possible, so some babies are just SOL either way. But that’s an entirely different subject.
Support or not, those babies have the same genes that lead to baby kiling as their parents; if it’s not this generation, then it will be the next one. Stuff like this, proves those whole lineages are not the fittest to survive.
Edit: hopefully clarifying.
Support or not, from a Darwinian point of view, those babies are likely to inherit the same cultural biases and genes conductive to acquiring the same cultural biases as their parents; if left to their own resources, then it likely won’t take many more generations until they fail to guarantee the survival of their descendants’ descendants, which the whole “survival of the fittest” is really about.
Stuff like this, proves those whole lineages might require external intervention to make them viable… which leads to a whole other can of worms about cultural interventionism.
This is not a terribly nice thing to say. So much of raising children is cultural or environmental, and many people go on to be great parents after having bad parents themselves. Also, this comment gives some eugenics promoting vibes. Please try to communicate more clearly in the future to avoid giving that impression. Thanks!
So basically, people don’t understand chemistry and that boric acid and borax are different. Boric Acid has legitimate medical uses and is possibly less toxic than table salt.
