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It should be banned!!! Wait..., what?
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The deadly FACTS about the chemical, dihydrogen monoxide.

It should be banned!!!

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The Dihydrogen Monoxide hoax (or movement as I consider it) is an attempt to demonstrate how easily people can be persuaded to believe in things at face value; it’s an illustration of the utter lack of critical thought within the majority of the population.

This common display of ignorance can be witnessed through the use of just about every form of media, news and advertisement. It is the life blood of biased propaganda which utilizes clever rhetoric to persuade an audience. Whether or not the information is founded on relevant facts is not important; those facts can be skewed and presented in such a way where people are quick to jump on the bandwagon and believe in the “shocking so it must be true” value of a claim.

The examples are practically limitless but one in particular that seems very similar to the Dihydrogen Monoxide example is the controversy over high fructose corn syrup. HFCS is virtually identical to regular table sugar from a chemical perspective. The controversy built up around it persuades people to believe that the unhealthy aspect in eating high sugar foods isn’t in the fact that they’re full of sugar but because HFCS is not “real” or “natural” sugar, therefore it must be harmful to the body. As a result, we see people fervently searching ingredient labels for the dreaded HFCS, but are entirely okay with a label that lists its first or second ingredient as sugar as long as its “natural” sugar… meanwhile obesity/heart disease/diabetes continues. Corporations 1 : Dimwitted population 0

Supporting Evidence: Dihydrogen Monoxide website (www.dhmo.org)
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OK, but... when you exceed your daily allowance of Dihydrogen Monoxide (because you stopped monitoring your Dihydrogen Monoxide intake) and start to feel bloated, don't come crying to me because all I'm going to say is, "That's what you get!" ;)

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-SCvqH-TIAdA/U-eWdvBBvLI/AAAAAAAAD_M/K1T1hFLeg6o/w647-h353-no/ThatsWhatYouGet.jpg

That's what you get!
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HumannamuH(209) Clarified
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I have one thing to say.........what a load of rubbish...

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The Dihydrogen Monoxide hoax

If everyone were to have a little sense and weren't short - sighted in this 'I want it now! Society', then the world wouldn't fall for 'fad diets'.

People fervently searching ingredient labels for the dreaded HFCS, but are entirely okay with a label that lists its first or second ingredient as sugar as long as its “natural” sugar… meanwhile obesity/heart disease/diabetes continues. Corporations 1 : Dimwitted population 0

Well yes, sugar derived from fruit may be lower in calories but what they don't tell you is that eating to much sugar causes a crash in your blood - sugar levels consequently and that fructose is more easily stored as fat than regular sugar. Poison is 'naturally occurring' as we see in limitless examples, but can you blame the food industry? If people are gullible enough to believe the values of their claims??!

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Coldfire(1014) Clarified
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but can you blame the food industry? If people are gullible enough to believe the values of their claims??!

Yes. I can blame them for being deceptive. For being more concerned with profit then the betterment of the species. Many things.

I don't think it absolves the population for being gullible or uninformed, but I also don’t consider them to have sole culpability or even the primary cause for blame.

The person who deceives or the person who trust the deceiver. One of these people has poor intentions.

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Also, it's not a crime to digress.

I would have thought the point was fairly clear, perhaps I was wrong....

Oh well.

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