Comments on: Four Deadly Disasters Caused by Food

By: TCD

TCD — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:23:43 +0000

@LD – care to cite some actual CREDIBLE evidence (i.e. peer-reviewed scientific studies) to support the suggestion that aspartame gives people MS? Or would you rather ignorantly scare-monger people out of using a compound that has been one of the more rigorously tested food additives in the history of modern science (and yet is still used widely and no negative effects have ever been scientifically shown)?

As for hydrogenated oils striking people with type-2 diabetes…LOL, just LOL. That’s like saying “caffeine is a killer” because someone consumed >10g of it and (rightly) died.

Love reading such pseudoscience, some people need to pick up a copy of Ben Goldacre’s book…

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By: LD

LD — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:40:46 +0000

And look at the food disasters continuing today: hydrogenated oils striking millions with type-2 diabetes, aspartame striking people with MS, etc, etc…

By: markustoday

markustoday — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 00:48:35 +0000

I agree with the marshmallows comment lol…

By: radiospu

radiospu — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 22:16:21 +0000

Eirene was NOT a hurricane after landfall it was a tropical storm! In other words tour implication is false, but your statement about rarity is obviously true.

By: Venkman

Venkman — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 17:29:21 +0000

You forgot the one involving stay-puft marshmallows.

By: matt

matt — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 13:58:19 +0000

“to loosen, or “to set loose” is most appropriate to indicate intentional, or contextual causation”
“to be loosed” is most appropriate for describing unintentional/unexpected causation

e.g. “Enforcement of plant maintenance policies were loosened, and within months, the reactor vessel’s decaying liner ruptured catastrophically; violently loosing its contents to the atmosphere.”

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By: Gareth

Gareth — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 19:38:56 +0000

Sorry, realized the first and maybe second were covered already.

By: Gareth

Gareth — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 19:08:35 +0000

A couple more:

An epidemic of the ‘jake leg’ (the loss of use of one’s legs) was caused by the introduction of a toxic chemical into alcoholic ‘medicine’ during prohibition.

Petroleum sold as cooking oil in Mexico.

I’ll try and dig up the references.

By: idiot killer

idiot killer — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:40:08 +0000

@Jeff,

It is loosing. As in to set loose. Derp.

loosing: present participle of loose (Verb)
1. Set free; release: “the hounds have been loosed”.
2. Untie; unfasten: “the ropes were loosed”

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By: Gramarian

Gramarian — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 04:51:20 +0000

I agree loosing is the appropriate choice in the sentence.

By: Phil Ross

Phil Ross — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 03:05:26 +0000

I turned on the radio one day and heard a historian commentator state: “And that is how it became known as the Aubergine Wars”
!
I have never been able to find reference to it again to find out more – frustrating!