Theos-Talk Archives (August 2005 Message tt00320)

Most of these e-mails warning about urgent health risks are just
hoaxes. Some of them are scams to get money off of you, some are used
to discredit certain products (like the ones that states that certain
brands of shampoo caused cancer (!!) ), and yet others are just
pranks.

For instance, if you look at the http://www.dhmo.org/ website, you'll
see a prank regarding Dihydrogen monoxide (id est, the chemical
composition of water). They, in not so many words, state that DHMO is
hazardous to inhale at room temperature--which anyone in their right
mind would suspect is correct. But if you didn't know DHMO is in fact
water, you would think you were in some immediate danger. Because of
the amount of detail on the site, and the seemingly valid data on the
website, it appears to be a valid reason to panic.

The same with the e-mail regarding the cancer-causing plastic, except
all the information in that e-mail was falsified (the doctor who was
mentioned did not even suggest that plastic had even the slightest
capacity to cause cancer). But the e-mail was designed in such a
manner as to influence you to continue spreading the rumor before
researching this.

I've fallen victim to this myself once, forwarding a virus threat to a
technical support group, only to realize minutes later that the e-mail
was already showing up in commercial websites as a hoax. Just
forwarding the e-mails generates so much traffic volume that it can
cost companies millions of dollars in bandwidth usage every year, even
take down entire systems--It ends up doing even more damage than the
horrible virus that it describes. I was so embarassed afterwards that
I never forwarded anything like that again.

-Mark H.



On 8/29/05, Jayananda Hiranandani <professorjaya@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear Fellow Seekers:
> 
> I have read with interest the messages on the subject. I wish to supplement as follows.
> 
> One of the suggestions is to use a wooden container in the microwave oven. While I am not a chemist or a chemical engineer, I have the following thought.
> 
> Both plastic and wood are polymers. They are synthetic and natural polymers respectively.
> 
> Now if wood does not produce the harmful effect of dioxin but synthetic plastic does, then would it not be worth investigating why wood does not do it. It would be equally scientific to find out the cause for the difference. This would a search for truth, at least in the scientific sense, if not in the theosophical sense.Thus, this may suggest a way to modify plastics toavoid dioxin.
> 
> Thanking you.
> Yours cordially,
> Jayananda H. Hiranandani
> 
> Cass Silva <silva_cass@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thought I would pass this on as I have been very suspicious about the effects of microwaves for many years and avoid using it at all.
> Cass
> 
> CANCER NEWS... FROM JOHN HOPKINS
> 
> JUST A REMINDER.......
> 
> No plastic containers in microwave
> 
> No plastic water bottles in freezer
> 
> No plastic wrap in microwave
> 
> Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in their newsletter --
> This is definitely worth noting.
> 
> This information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical
> Center.
> 
> Dioxin Carcinogens cause cancer, especially breast cancer.
> 
> Don't freeze your plastic water bottles with water as this releases
> dioxins in the plastic.
> 
> Dr. Edward Fujimoto from Castle Hospital was on a TV program explaining
> this health hazard. (Manager of the Wellness Program at hospital.) He
> was talking about dioxins and how bad they are for us.
> 
> He said that we should not be heating our food in the microwave using
> plastic containers. This applies to foods that contain fat.
> The combination of fat, high heat and plastics releases dioxins
> into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body.
> 
> Dioxins are carcinogens and highly toxic to the cells of our bodies.
> 
> He recommends using glass, Corning Ware or ceramic containers
> for heating food. You get the same results, without the dioxins.
> 
> TV dinners, instant ramen and soups, etc., should be removed from the
> container and heated in something else. Paper isn't bad, but you don't
> know what's in the paper. It's just safer to use tempered glass, Corning
> Ware, etc.
> 
> He said we might remember when some of the fast food restaurants moved
> away from the foam containers to paper. The dioxin problem is one of the
> reasons.Saran wrap placed over foods as they are nuked, with the high heat,
> actually drips poisonous toxins into the food; use paper towels.
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-- 
Mark Hamilton Jr.
waking.adept@gmail.com