This reminds me of a daily "science" segment that a local TV
station here aired a few years ago (it was a short lived experiment, and
now has been replaced with the usual garbage, such as "entertainment
news.") Their "science reporter" broke the startling story that he had
found in several food products in local groceries the deadly toxin
DIOXIN. He went on to show the ingredients label from several items
with the deadly toxin actually listed -- as SILICON DIOXIDE, also known
as SAND. Idiots. Why put sand in your food? It is a cheap, effective,
and nontoxic free-flow and anti-caking agent. This TV station is in a
city right on the banks of a sound, and there is that deadly silicon
dioxide all over the city.
This "science" segment also ran a spot where they revealed that
the infant mortality rate in our county was outrageously high, something
like 10.5%. Incredulous, I looked more closely as they showed t table
with a list of IMRs with that for our county circled. The circled
number was something like 10.5, and at the top of the page it said
"infant deaths per 1,000 live births." Duh!
Cheers,
Karl W.
-----Original Message-----
From: Miguel Roig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 11:22 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: [tips] video about banning dihydrogen monoxide
Check out this video with Penn & Teller narrating how a young woman gets
various folks attending some environmentalist event to sign a petition
to
ban dihydrogen monoxide. It might be appropriate to show it in certain
segments of social psych. classes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi3erdgVVTw
Miguel
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