Top Seven Health Myths

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  • Posted By: Skulldugger7 @ 12/27/2007 1:43:41 PM

    "Myth #7" does happen. When I was eleven, my best friend and I were trick-or-treating and were given popcorn spiked with alum - we were both vomiting two hours later. The man who gave us the popcorn was a stranger who had moved into the neighborhood within the past year. They jailed him on this and a number of other charges.

    • Posted By: Skulldugger7 @ 12/27/2007 4:09:56 PM

      It's not as rampant as the panic-mongers would have you believe, but it does happen. Drink some more koolaid, jscohn.

      • Posted By: Greenfur74 @ 12/27/2007 4:49:46 PM

        There was a very real local central Florida story about a kid who discovered a small blade from a disposable razor in a candy bar he found this last Halloween. This is a real threat that the author of this article does not believe in and has nothing to do with either the reported study or medicine. Do some research Newsweek!!!

      • Posted By: Greenfur74 @ 12/27/2007 4:41:48 PM

        There was a very real report here in central Florida, this past Halloween, about a child who found a candy bar into which someone had shoved one of the small blades off a disposable razor.

        The author of this article added this Halloween part, that is neither medical nor part of the original study the story is about. She could have written that there is no real "killer nano robot virus" threat and it would have been and it might have been more appropriate.

  • Posted By: spacecadet @ 12/27/2007 4:11:16 PM

    A 1.2% rate of "clinically significant" interference in a hospital could mean 1 out of 100 patients dying unnecessarily. I don't think this "myth" should be on the list, because it's a case where even a small percentage is literally the difference between life and death for some patients. My wife is a nurse and has seen this first-hand - an 800mhz cell phone placed too close to a telemetry unit *will* cause it to malfunction. And that means no heart monitoring for those who need it most.

    Look at it this way. Cell phones are also banned on airplanes. Would you turn yours on if you knew that there was "only" a 1.2% chance that your plane would crash if you did?

  • Posted By: jscohn2002 @ 12/27/2007 2:41:12 PM

    Here we go! These authors aren't the first to point out the Halloween myth. There are like no documented cases of strangers poisoning candy. People make the claim - and then they turn out to be untrue. And the myth continues. Look it up on Snopes.

  • Posted By: jscohn2002 @ 12/27/2007 2:41:01 PM

    Here we go! These authors aren't the first to point out the Halloween myth. There are like no documented cases of strangers poisoning candy. People make the claim - and then they turn out to be untrue. And the myth continues. Look it up on Snopes.

  • Posted By: jscohn2002 @ 12/27/2007 2:40:01 PM

    Here we go! These authors aren't the first to point out the Halloween myth. There are like no documented cases of strangers poisoning candy. People make the claim - and then they turn out to be untrue. And the myth continues. Look it up on Snopes.

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