• @[email protected]
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    562 months ago

    ‘It has chemicals in it’

    This use of ‘chemicals’ as something inherently bad just makes it sound like they’re parroting some scaremongering tiktok.

    • @[email protected]
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      202 months ago

      I had this talk with a member of my family. Water is a chemical, salt is a chemical. Just because you don’t immediately know what it is, doesn’t mean its bad.

      • @AA5B
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        82 months ago

        I’m sure they know, but maybe this is word drift or shorthand for “harmful chemicals”. That’s a lot more plausible than literally turning “literally” into its opposite

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          52 months ago

          It’s more of a lack of understanding of chemistry, this chemical compound contains something harmful in another form, but it is completely harmless in the form that it takes in this food or vaccine, etc.