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Silent3

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6. The dihydrogen monoxide thing is clearly a spoof...
Mon Oct 26, 2015, 06:53 AM
Oct 2015

...but many woos bought into it as if it were serious, and passed it on with serious concern.

A few woos have enough of a sense of humor about themselves (rare, I know) to have seen the DHMO thing as funny, and spread it around as a joke. Since Nancy's Facebook page also has this:



...she's probably in the latter category.

But a willingness to joke a bit aside, I'm pretty sure the rest of her Facebook page and her web site is meant seriously, the usual "natural = good, artificial = bad" woo, with the typical anecdote-based, personal-experience-based, cherry-picking of exaggerated interpretation of isolated studies-based recommendations that this food and that food amazingly accomplish this and that wonderful health goal.

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