John Hickenlooper: I drank fracking fluid
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« Reply #25 on: February 14, 2013, 10:12:37 PM »

I've read that Hickenlooper was kinda weird but this...

Seriously. I would've guessed this kind of oddness from some ruby-red tea partier like Rick Scott or Rick Perry, let alone from a Democrat.

And this guy's being seriously floated as a potential presidential candidate?
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« Reply #26 on: February 14, 2013, 10:14:36 PM »

You know what they say:  you can drink anything once.
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« Reply #27 on: February 14, 2013, 11:24:59 PM »

This is like freaking out that that mouth X-ray at the dentist's will give you cancer. Or that vaccines will give you autism.
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« Reply #28 on: February 14, 2013, 11:27:19 PM »

This is like freaking out that that mouth X-ray at the dentist's will give you cancer. Or that vaccines will give you autism.

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« Reply #29 on: February 14, 2013, 11:37:14 PM »

For the record the X-ray machine at the dentist terrifies me.
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« Reply #30 on: February 15, 2013, 09:38:49 AM »

This is like freaking out that that mouth X-ray at the dentist's will give you cancer. Or that vaccines will give you autism.

Not really a good comparison.  You could argue that Xrays do have some benefit, and you might even be able to argue that vaccines have some benefit, and you may come to the conclusion that the benefits of those things outweigh any perceived risks.  Anyone freaking out about those things might be rebuttal-freaking, or they might simply be convinced that the advantages do not outweigh the risks, and you misinterpret that as freaking out.

But drinking fracking fluid?  Assuming you won't market it as porn or as a carnival freakshow, what benefit accompanies the drinking of fracking fluid?  I can't think of any.  It seems very unlike submitting to X-radiation or vaccinations.


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« Reply #31 on: February 16, 2013, 03:57:44 PM »

This is like freaking out that that mouth X-ray at the dentist's will give you cancer. Or that vaccines will give you autism.

Not really a good comparison.  You could argue that Xrays do have some benefit, and you might even be able to argue that vaccines have some benefit, and you may come to the conclusion that the benefits of those things outweigh any perceived risks.  Anyone freaking out about those things might be rebuttal-freaking, or they might simply be convinced that the advantages do not outweigh the risks, and you misinterpret that as freaking out.

But drinking fracking fluid?  Assuming you won't market it as porn or as a carnival freakshow, what benefit accompanies the drinking of fracking fluid?  I can't think of any.  It seems very unlike submitting to X-radiation or vaccinations.




I think marketing is in fact the correct assumption. In this case it's marketing the fluid as something less harmful than one might have thought. It would be like walking across a catwalk above a high radiation area. If the rate at the catwalk is low enough, and you don't tarry long there, you can show that no ill comes of it even though it has no direct benefit to your body.
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« Reply #32 on: February 16, 2013, 05:27:41 PM »

This is like freaking out that that mouth X-ray at the dentist's will give you cancer. Or that vaccines will give you autism.

I'm sorry but this need a comment.

X-ray do have a very small risk of causing cancer, and repeated use increase the risk, it's why you get pierce of lead-clothing around you neck at the dentist (when they take x-ray pictures), as the thyroid cartilage has a increase risk of develop cancer and one with high mortality.

As for vaccines, while there lack any evidence of children developing autisms from it, vaccines do kill people every year, a lot fewer than the diseases would kill (usual), but people do die from vaccines just as people die of other medicins.

As for drinking fracking water, you need to be idiot to drink it voluntary. While it's likely harmless, there's a lot of examples of thing people thought was harmless, which ended up having a lot of unpleasants effects.
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