A report from 1973 outlined the cases of two infants who developed chronic borate intoxication
eating borax can turn your vomit and stool a blue-green color
Interesting…
Some years ago, I saw a documentary about “exorcisms”, where the performing priest, in breach of established doctrine, decided to talk about some cases with the reporters. One of the proofs he cited for “demonic possession”, was the victim spraying green and blue foam from their mouth.
Makes one think, did their parents try to cure them with borax first?
BTW, al Borate containing cleaning agents are banned in the EU since 2010, so the closest thing one can find right now is some “like Borax” ones.
I knew a kid in the 8th grade who, after the poor science teacher spent about an hour lecturing us on lab safety, immediately ate a bit of Borax we were using for the experiment.
Good to know he was a trendsetter I guess
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
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.
But why do they come up with stuff that kills people like this? ~Strawberry
how do you think they came up with the whole horse dewormer covid thing
The former custodian at one of my schools—she resigned because she wouldn’t get vaccinated—had a giant IVERMECTIN graphic on the sides of her car.
I for one support this trend, and I know for a fact that Charles Darwin would approve.
I, on the other hand, don’t support poisoning babies.
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!
I hear you. Edited the comment to hopefully address these issues and make it clearer what I meant (might have used a few shortcuts in the initial version). If not, let me know and I’ll remove it.
