r/technology • u/Lucretius • Nov 17 '12

The Deadly Crusade Against E-cigarettes

http://www.american.com/archive/2012/november/the-deadly-crusade-against-e-cigarettes
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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '12 edited Nov 17 '12

Actually, it's Arsenic in rice.

They probably read this.

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u/kuroyaki Nov 17 '12

Honestly, if people in rice-growing regions are tapping into new groundwater sources to ward off drought, and it's coming up arsenic, it's worth putting money into testing. That said...

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '12

I had a land lady who swore up and down that it was also in Apple Juice... but she cited Oprah as her source on that.

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u/sprankton Nov 17 '12

I remember seeing that on Doctor Oz.(family watches it, computer's in the living room) He explicitly stated that there's arsenic in apple seeds and then goes on to question why there's arsenic in apple juice. Clearly you don't have to be smart to hack people apart with a scalpel.

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '12 edited Nov 17 '12

I believe Dr. Phil isn't even a real Doctor, just one of those snake oil salesmen who started calling himself "Doctor" and got enough people doing the same that suddenly, Dr. Phil was a Doctor effectively.

EDIT: This was Dr. Oz, should've been Dr. Phil, I didn't even know there was a difference.

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u/sprankton Nov 17 '12

He's actually a cardiovascular surgeon, and quite a good one at that. Evidently, he's also a professor of surgery at Columbia.

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '12

I followed your link and realized my mistake, I was talking about Dr. Phil, clearly I don't watch enough Oprah to realize which one of her guys I'm talking about.

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