It's wise to think about those petitions that you are signing before you put your name on the dotted line!
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I had seen something like this before. It seems the other one was put together by a high school student working on a science fair project demonstrating the same thing as this video. I am glad people are doing research on dihydrogen monoxide - http://www.dhmo.org/
I think even Richard Dawkins has gotten into trouble over signing a petition while misunderstanding the purpose of it; so it doesn't make people stupid. It just means we should be careful.
As someone who has had family members die from dhmo poisoning, I don't think we should take it lightly.
Ahhh, Hell. It's a pretty funny video.
Someone should circulate a petition at a religious tent-show to prevent Madalyn Murray O'Hair from getting the FCC to take religious programming off the air.
Judging from my inbox, we would get a few signatures there, too.
Fascinating. It shows the power of the cognitive bias of association...
- with "toxic" names. Complex chemicals must be bad. The Bush administration knows this very well and writes "poetry" such as No Child Left Behind and The Patriot Act, without the Democrats or the media challenging those labels
- with "bad people". Whatever nuclear companies do, must be bad...
Brilliant. They'll be going around the bars with a petition against ethyl-alcohol next.
Bob