Skepticism
Skepchick Quickies 5.27
- 16-year-old student isolates microbe that lunches on plastic bags– Thanks, Steve!
- Spanish village holds baby jump– “Grown men have been leaping over rows of babies in the north Spanish village of Castrillo de Murcia in an annual rite meant to ward off the Devil.”
- Nipple cream warning: harmful to nursing infants– *Headdesk* times a million. One ingredient can even slow a baby’s breathing!
- When catcalling isn’t just an annoyance– Definitely read the comments to this post, too.
- Phoenix descending– Go check out Phil’s need to gesticulate and make faces about the landing of Phoenix on Mars.
the FDA warning on the MOM website is very well hidden–you have to actually go to the product page, and click on the “not available–details” before you find out that it could do some very bad things.
http://www.babysbliss.com/Products/Detail.aspx?product=nipple-cream
That’s pretty shocking, since I’d think they’d want to notify current users to stop using it!!
Geez, I wouldn’t use anything besides lovely lovely lanolin for nipple pain anyway. Now I’m glad I’ve adhered to it without question :P
Good on ya Daniel Burd!!
What are the byproducts or metabolic waste from this process? It sounds like a great solution, assuming it doesn’t produce other harmful chemicals (I really don’t know much about how this might work, so it is a sincere question).
I wonder if he tried praying over a flask to accelerate the process. Oh wait, he’s in Canada…
The article said that the only byproducts were water and a small amount of CO2
Daniel Burd is my new hero. I mean, that discovery would’ve been amazing coming from anyone, but from a 16-year-old? Makes me wonder what the hell I’ve been doing for the past ten years.
Love that video, Rystefn. :-)
The harassment issue is quite disturbing. But if I may point out, if the women had given out their cell phone number and the perpetrators had called it, there would be a way to track them down and prosecute them.
I am not suggesting that anyone should actually take that step.
Thanks Rystefn–was reading this at work and got disrupted by someone needing help with something, I must have missed that.
Stupid work, always interrupting my inter-tubing.
I was going to point out the Phoenix-typo, but then I read the “catcalling”-post…
Thanks for mentioning this. I linked to this post over at a favorite mommyblogger’s post where she’s getting breastfeeding support from other moms for a new son who’s basically chewing her nipples to shreds (poor gal). I figured she already has enough to worry about!
Her post is at http://badladies.blogspot.com/2008/06/boobityville-horror.html by the way. Thanks for the service you did by mentioning this disturbing bit of news about that nipple cream!