Don’t forget about the trace amounts of dihydrogen monoxide.
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Oh man, that’s the worst.
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A big feature of the Woo industry is that the manufacturers make no direct claims, (other than the allowed “structure/function” claims) and rely on allied “experts” to write books and articles that make the strongest health claims about their products and modalities. Useful idiots believe and expand on the claims, and purchase both the products and the books. Its a endlessly recycling bullshit machine, and the FDA can do nothing about it.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0041329/
Also top search result for chiropractic death is some actress it seems I’m guessing that’s what high profile means. I think I’ll be leaving my neck alone. Definitley looks like things can and do go wrong.
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Ok so, “air fresheners tend to douse the air with irritating natural oils.”
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That stuff can even cause asphyxiation in extremely high concentrations.
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PC LOAD LETTER if you know what I’m sayin.
Pull it apart and use the back end as a dirt cheap alexa controlled switch for whatever.
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Essential oils can be harmful to pets, too. https://news.okstate.edu/articles/veterinary-health-sciences/2018/essential-oils-and-pets.html
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Boingboing is all about the Internet of shit when it allows them to profit. Typical capitalists.
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you really got their number with that one
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I’m glad you appreciate my work.
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Are we displeased with the claim that chiropractic adjustment of the neck can kill?
Because it’s a well established risk with torquing the neck. And there’s increasing connection between the specific sort of neck cracking chiropractors do and strokes of this sort. Though any neck trauma of the sort can cause it. Knew a kid years ago who caused one cracking his own neck.
Or with the idea that there were prominent deaths?
A playboy model and snapchat “celebrity” by the name of Katie may died this way a bit back. It was ruled that the stroke was caused by chiropractic manipulation she sought to treat a neck injury she picked up during a photo shoot.
It made international headlines. Even appearing in people (though that piece is notably friendly to chiropractors)
That was the “biggest” story on the subject. But if you’d like to do your own home work. There were a number of others that produced lower level coverage. Including an increasing storm about pediatric use of spinal adjustment that cover the deaths of several children. And the death of Jimmy youngblood which likewise produce a lot of headlines.
I did misremember in that strokes are apparently the major result not aneurysms.
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All my life I’ve been looking for something to evenly distribute oils.
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I have very sensitive skin and lungs and sinuses. Any additional particulate matter in the air inflames my lungs. It’s also not great for regular people. This is just more gunk clogging up your lungs. It’s bad enough that most of us live in polluted areas. Don’t bring this into your home, it will just add to the indoor air pollution. https://www.isiaq.org/docs/PDFs/2309.pdf
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So explain again how inhaling oil vapors from this is good for you?
It’s bad for your lungs - they aren’t meant to live in a fug of stinky oils.
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I too was confused that BoingBoing (who regularly trashes ‘woo’) used the misleading term “should be healing yourself” in the headline.
And, yes, chiropractic was implicated in that death, yet the third leading cause of death is… (wait for it)…
Medical Errors. Here’s a 2016 BMJ article (the BMJ used to be called the British Medical Journal, one of the top journals in the world) https://www.bmj.com/content/353/bmj.i2139
The medical-industrial complex has many significant problems that cause a lot of problems for patients (both health as well as financial problems).
Yes, ‘regulated doctors’ help a lot, but let’s not skewer all of chiropractic over that one death. And, yes, chiropractors have problems, too! But, regulation is not a magic pill to fix the issue (as we can see from the ‘regulated’ medical industry errors).
BTW: the death-by-error rate is skewed (as the article points out in the third sentence of the abstract):
“However, a major limitation of the death certificate is that it relies on assigning an International Classification of Disease (ICD) code to the cause of death. As a result, causes of death not associated with an ICD code, such as human and system factors, are not captured.”
It’s too bad the rest of the article is paywalled. But, Mark McKary’s book "Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals’ is worth reading.
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Did you know that lavender oil can cause gynecomastia?
If you wanna be a real-life “soy boy” and watch your man-boogs grow, this is the oil for you.
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A fair amount of pseudo-scientific stuff doesn’t do any direct, immediate harm. The problem is when people rely on hokum instead of real treatments. Not only does that end up hurting people, it creates fractures in the general understanding that people have of how the world works and opens the door to both more harmful things (people using “natural” remedies that contain uncontrolled amounts of seriously dangerous stuff, not vaccinating themselves or their children). Perhaps worst of all, homeopathy and its ilk has a remarkable ability to quickly attach itself to a person’s identity. Once this happens, any challenges to that person’s beliefs or understanding are interpreted as attacks on the person, rather than an effort to help that person or someone they may be inadvertently harming.
So sell it as a gizmo that makes nice smells based on the fact that nice smells are nice, and nice things can make you feel good. That’s perfectly honest marketing that doesn’t rely on implied medicinal benefits. Additionally, vaporized oils have to go somewhere, that somewhere is first the air, also your lungs, but most of it ends up all over and inside your stuff. For clothes and fabric that might make them smell nice for longer, but for your computer or television, that stuff tends to accumulate and become sticky, which causes dust to stick tenaciously to things that it wouldn’t otherwise stick to.
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