The worst "hippy shit" scam I've seen in quite a while.

[G. Fieendish]

Where exactly in the Himalayas is this salt mine located....?
(If it's in Tibet, then given Chinese working practices, you could argue that's it's harvested by "slave labour", if in Nepal, given the situation with Maoist insurrectionists, then this could be "Funding Terrorists"....).

 

[kyser_soze]

Link sent to Ben Goldacre @ Bad Science...this has brightened up my Monday no end...

 

[fogbat]

Link sent to Ben Goldacre @ Bad Science...this has brightened up my Monday no end...

I was thinking about doing that meself, but far too disorganized.

 

[Badger Kitten]

Has Cherie Blair endorsed it yet?

 

[dylanredefined]

But salt in the bath is good for you. You used to have to bathe in salty water after childbirth, dunno if you still do. The young snakes are 17 and 24 now.
eta it doesn't have to come from the Himalays though.

Actually salt in baths is pointless unless you have it at dead sea like concentrations .The only good it did was stop people using bubble bath which would probably irritate more than a handful of salt .Also they found some really nasty bugs actually like salt .Nurse acedemics have cut forests down and spent hours discussing salt in baths and salty water as a wound cleaning product.
Probably still being used as "sister like it done that way"

 

[kyser_soze]

Reply from Mr G:

ha, are they still flogging this stuff, jeez,,,

So they've been around for a while.

So, anyone reckon there's money to be made in quackery? Easy money?

 

[Orang Utan]

You think that's bad?
http://www.kabbalahwater.com/

 

[Yossarian]

I reckon it'd be easier to just convince the hippies that their money is loaded with bad karma from all the greed-heads that have had it before them, and offer to take it off their hands...

 

[G. Fieendish]

Re: Water being less dense than solid...
Does anyone know if this effect applies to DiHydrogen Peroxide (H2O5), in it's solid state....?

 

[TeeJay]

Re: Water being less dense than solid...
Does anyone know if this effect applies to DiHydrogen Peroxide (H2O5), in it's solid state....?

Cold water (0 to 4 degrees) is more dense than solid water (ice).

"Water reaches its maximum density at 4°C (40°F). As it cools further and freezes into ice, it actually becomes less dense. On the other hand, most substances are most dense in their solid (frozen) state than in their liquid state. Water is different because of hydrogen bonding." (basically the crystal lattice shape of ice)

 

[k_s]

If I was in charge of this I'd send out packets of arsenic instead and call it natural selection when the stupid fuckers all died

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

Is it good for me if i have it on my chips?

 

[G. Fieendish]

Re:My last Comment
Whoops, I've just realised a error in my question, it should have read "less dense when solid....?", rather than "less dense than solid....?:
However, does this same effect apply to Hydrogen Peroxide (H205) in it's solid state though, ie "Is Frozen Hydrogen Peroxide less dense when in it's solid state, than liquid, or is this effect limited to Dihydrogen in it's monoxide state...?