Waht are your thoughts on the veracity of this article?
 

http://usahitman.com/microwave-test/

http://usahitman.com/wp-content/uplo...s8-550x366.jpg

It's been passed around the internet for a few months.

im against it

why

i understand about half of those words

shit i didn't even post the right fucking article. sorry let me edit it

ah, much better

they need to do blind studies for me to take it seriously

del

principle

you first.

http://nothingbutmemory.net/red/wp-c...-armed-man.jpg

...and that's why you never put liquor in the microwave.

because microwaves don't actually do anything chemical to water?

also not sure the affect of the pruning after day one. needs more study.

total nonsense.

http://www.snopes.com/science/microwave/plants.asp

microwaves do nothing to change the chemical structure of water.

Yes, exactly! You're all correct. :)

i also have to question this 8 year old's methods of experimentation. n = 1 is a very small sample size. in fact, the smallest sample size possible.

My daughter did a science project where she watered one plant with tap water, and another with filtered. The tap watered plant died. I haven't tried microwaved water. The water here smells too bleachy :[

Yeah, as you guys have already mentioned, the test wasn't blinded and the sample size was as small as it could be. But to be honest, I doubt it was an honest (but ill-devised) experiment. It's probably just hoax.

Most likely. This seems like some hippie anarchist or something trying to "prove" the harmful effects of microwaves, oblivious to the fact that while microwaves can in theory denature macromolecules possessing complex structures such as proteins or DNA, water doesn't have any of the aforementioned features and therefore there is no reason that a plant would be killed by microwaved water unless the water was scalding hot when administered to the plant, and therefore testing the effects of pure microwaved water on a plant is simply pointless. Microwaves are on the long wavelength, low energy side of the EMS (opposite gamma rays and x-rays, which have wavelengths close to the size of atoms). All a microwave does is add heat to a system.

looks liek fackts to me

So you're saying that a middle school girl did NOT turn the world of science on its head?

i think they are obvisoly trying to cover their shame at being otsmarted it's obsurd how arrogant sientists are

This is being spread around by chemophobes/naturalists/libertarians/etc. as some sort of proof that natural = good when it comes to food, or for that matter, anything. It's veiled anti-intellectualism

Ya know, let's just go back to living in trees and forget about rules and shit and all of our problems will go away, that sort of sentiment

yeah i sometimes wonder about the logic of "man made" = unnatural. i mean, we're part of nature after all

A/C is an abomination because it is NOT natural!

Showering is not natural.


Is it?

Nope, nor are vaccinations, airplanes, napkins, staplers, toenail clippers, refrigerators, hockey pads, tampons, light bulbs, chairs, emergency medicine, aspirin...

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Chemophobia

Here are some interesting comments:

http://www.naturalnews.com/042935_ra...rocessing.html

(note #5: yeah man, fuck antibiotics!)

Everyone's an expert. If you actually follow the science.naturalnews link, the first article is on safety concerns associated with consumption of raw milk, and this is promptly followed by two comments stating that the article is a lie and that the government is opposed to raw milk and therefore it must be a good thing, respectively


Natural: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricin that's just the pop culture example, there are countless cytotoxins found in nature


EVERYTHING is toxic in large enough amounts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication

If it is not natural then it is an abomination and an AFFRONT to GOD!!!!

that's what i say to defend fake tits

Raw milk is good though

I think completely dismissing the "naturalists" is as bad an extreme as what you accuse them of but whatever
I willingly am pumped up with every damn chemical and gmo sugar carb I can find

and now hormones

deer spray and estrogen

Just the estrogen
I was including that in my statement

True, but the actual reasons for potential harms are going to be far more nuanced than the naturalists would have one believe, and indeed it is because of those complications that potential harms could in theory go undetected. That being said, in most cases of non-natural products, the substance in question has been thoroughly vetted. Proteins and such are a more complicated issue largely because protein-protein interaction remain uncharacterized in many instances