Yikes, I've spilled some DHMO on my hands! What do I do now?
Do you know the truth about DHMO?
Look at this web site and tell me if you still want to go swimming.
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Every so often I come across a news story relevant to the subject matter usually encompassed by this blog that makes me shake my head in disbelief at the sheer stupidity.
If there's one thing about anti-vaccine activists that is virtually their sine qua non, it's an utter lack of understanding of science. Actually, a more accurate description would be that it's a highly selective understanding of science.
While contemplating the burning stupidity that is Jenny McCarthy over the weekend as she mindlessly parroted some of the worst misinformation of the antivaccine movement and assured an interviewer
It's all in a name, isn't it? In Michigan here I'm nearly surrounded by it. It does look nice just laying there. But you really do have to keep from breathing it.
You think that's bad - I get ~55.5M Hydroxic Acid coming out of my household plumbing!
Ha! This one was old when I was in school. How nice that young people give us the opportunity to recycle the classics. My nephew the chemist has to face the challenge of DHMO every day in the lab. Poor guy!
Have you seen the rebuttal?
http://www.armory.com/~crisper/DHMO/
I think that the proper treatment for a DHMO spill is to flush the area with a large amount of water.
}8^)
^^^ That's what our distilled water bottles used to recommend :S